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

January 8 - back to home stuff

Hello everyone 

Here are some of the things I’ve been doing this week

 

We needed some grated cheese and there were blocks of  cheese in the fridge so I got out the Presto Salad Shooter and grated a bunch. 

Then it went in containers and into the freezer and fridge for future meals.

Home grated cheese freezes great, as long as it’s not smashed down in to the container.

I made a salad and the tomatoes were so small,  I didn’t even half or dice them.  

When we set the bedrooms back up after the carpet installation,  many cans were stacked on this 15 inch deep lower shelf, in no particular order by some eager grandchildren.  

It looked neat but I couldn’t find the right cans when I needed them.  

So the same helpful grands unloaded that shelf and semi-sorted them this week.  

 

Then later,  I rearranged shelves and found better places for the cans and kept them sorted

. 

I got out a cross stitch project I started years ago and stitched a bit on it,  but I’d really prefer stitching using bigger hoops so I’ll get some soon. 

The current set are just 4 inch hoops. 

I finished reading   A Thread So Thin

It was good, not the best book ever but I’ll keep reading the series as I find the books.  

If 2020 and 2021 were muffins.............

This recipe was in today’s local newspaper. 

I like muffins for breakfast,

And I like broccoli and cheese for supper 

but I think broccoli cheese muffins sound like a very strange way to start off the morning 🤢

Hope your day is going better than broccoli cheese breakfast muffins 🙂

❤️ Rhonda 

January 5 - things at home

Hello everyone

I didn’t post over the weekend as we did nothing that was blog-interesting.  My husband has been having lots of knee pain (he will see an orthopedic dr next week) so we sat in the living room, watched church and watched Hallmark mysteries most all of the weekend.  

Now,  3 of my grands are here.  Their parents are working and the children have virtual school.  

  

I think the 2 older ones are making pretty good progress and learning a lot even though they’ve only been in school in person  for 20 days since March.

It’s tough for the kindergartner though.

Judging from how many of their classmates are on their zooms,  I’m wondering how much learning is going on for many students.  

But Covid is raging in our town,  we know quite a few people with it and some who have just recently got better- I truly don’t know what schools should do but I do think parents need to do all they can as their children’s success is ultimately their responsibility.  

Besides school, I’m working on a mountain of laundry but it’s going fast as it’s mostly bedding.  

And somehow I got all those shirts ironed too.  

  

I have not yet done my Bible reading as I need some quiet to do it.  

Meals while the grands have been here 

Supper on Monday- grilled burgers, oven fries and corn 

Breakfast was cereal as zooms started early and I couldn’t get breakfast cooked early enough

Lunch was bacon and waffles for the kiddos,  bacon fried rice for the 2 grownups.  

Second trip to CVS of 2021

I spent $14.61 on the 4 items in the photo.  

I got back a $10 CVS gift card and I still have $3 in CVS BeautyBucks from last week.

I’m happy with it,  all 4 products are large sizes and will last a good while.   

I think this post might be as interesting as watching paint dry for some people 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hope you’re all having a good day, whatever you’ve got on your plate to do 

❤️Rhonda