January 16- food prep and a new way to eat leftovers

Hello everyone 

I wrote up a menu sheet for meals we have ingredients for.  It will cover at least 2 weeks and meals are listed in no particular order. 

I will cross off each main meal as we eat it.  

I did a little food prep for the week ahead 

From left to right 

Fresh strawberries in red Jello

1 Chopped red onion 

A sweet potato and white potato to roast with supper tonight 

4 diced yellow onions 

5 peeled oranges 

2 pounds of peeled and sliced carrots (sliced by the Presto Salad Shooter) 

My son said he learned this method on Instagram and they have been using their leftovers to make yummy panini sandwiches.  

You start with a large tortilla like the kind for sandwich wraps, and cut one slash in it just to the center 

Then add whatever leftovers or fillings in each fourth

   

Now fold each quarter in until it’s folded into a quarter 

Then heat it in a Panini machine (I’m sure a griddle or skillet would work too, you’d just need to flip it to cook both sides)

You end up with a fancy restaurant type sandwich.  

I think these are a wonderful idea- and a thrifty way to use up leftovers,  even tiny amounts.  And if your fixing multiple sandwiches,  it would be easy to make them different to please each eater.  

Hope you’re all having a good weekend 

❤️Rhonda 

January 14- not much

I’m not really feeling like blogging right now.

I’m seeing so much fact checking and censorship going on in media,  I’m losing my desire to read or visit any kind of media.  

That being said,  I don’t plan to shut down this little blog without announcing in advance.   But it is a possibility 

Here are a few homemaking things I’ve been up to 

This weeks to do list above - before anything was done 

A little food prep- I peeled a bunch of oranges that had been hanging out in the crisper drawer 

My husband ate them all in 3 sittings.  

A funny from my daughter 

And no, she is not really selling them for any price.  Her family will really enjoy them.  

That’s it for now 

❤️Rhonda 

January 9- cleaning, tacos and chicken

Today was a housecleaning day.  I vacuumed and mopped from one end of our home to the other.  

We have a steam mop but lately I’ve been going back to this mop and PineSol.  

This mop seems to get closer to the baseboard edges than the steam mop.  

I’m making a big batch of taco seasoning- a recipe I’ve been making for years. 

I add a heaping tablespoon of this taco seasoning to the cooked ground meat for tacos. 

My son has been sprinkling it on raw chicken and then grilling or sautéing the chicken and he says it’s really good.  

When my daughter had to eat gluten free,  she really liked that this seasoning has no thickeners with gluten like most storebought mixes do.  

And we all like the way it tastes.  

Supper tonight was chicken, green beans and corn on the cob.  

I marinated the chicken in dill pickle juice in the jar the pickles were in - it kind of looks like a science specimen in a jar of formaldehyde but it really does cook up delicious.  

Before 

After - half of the dill pickle chicken sautéing in a skillet. 

Below is the link for the recipe I used loosely - we like this recipe a lot but we can only make it after we’ve used a jar of dill pickles 

Dill Pickle Chicken  

❤️ Rhonda