At Home My Way

I'm getting into this kind of late, but I really like to post what we've eaten for the month so that I have a record for next July.  Helps to not forget the stuff that worked and the stuff that didn't. July, 2011 Suppers BBQ at niece's house - we smoked pork loins, smoked chicken, and briskit to take out to their house (they bought - we just did the smokin!) Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans (Rebecca cooked dinner for us.) Lasagna, and garlic bread Hamburger Soup , HM biscuits (Rachel made dinner) BBQ chicken & hamburgers on the grill, baked potatoes, quarters of cabbage in foil packets on the grill (from Miss Sharon at the Farmer's Market) and 5-minute a day hoecakes made in the skillet with a little butter -YUM, YUM & YUM! Tacos / Taco salads  - make your own BBQ brats (at 4th of July BBQ) - I took Sweet & Sour Pasta Salad Spaghetti (always lots of spaghetti!  Sometimes once a week LOL!) Breakfast for Supper (gravy made...

I can never seem to make a menu plan as a "plan". So, I decided I would make a menu journal. Then, next January I can at least see what we had this January. We have daughter #1 living at home with us right now (she moved home over the summer),so between she and Big Daddy, its nearly impossible to please them both by cooking the same thing. Sometimes, I end up making a combination dinner. That means I take one meat and cook it two ways, suiting both of them. Daughter #2 and I are more flexible. We like pretty much everything. But,then with that being said, we don't like repetitive meals (like hubby and daughter #1), so I probably do way more cooking than most folks. But, we're happy and that's all that matters, right? JANUARY 2010 Menu Log Main Dish/Supper Homemade Stir Fry / Steak & gravy with a micro potato BFF Chili / frozen pizza HM spaghetti sauce, cole slaw, and garlic toast Crockpot Chicken and Biscuits Baked "Fried Fish" , oven fried ...