Committing to Cook at Home & Beat the Urge to Order Take Out!

Blog Purpose: To cook at home every night and fight the urge to grab take out! I love to cook, but sometimes the convenience of grabbing fast food wins. I've decided to challenge myself to cook at home as much as possible and to share my journey with others! Hopefully other people can grab some great meals ideas from me!

Monday, February 21, 2011

Weekly Menu: February 20th - 26th

Time for a new weekly menu!  I have been finding it a little hard to stick with this weekly menu thing, maybe it's because of if being winter/cold/dark/gloomy...I dunno!  So, I finally sat down and took the time to create a new one!  Yay...I'm actually quite excited about this one!

Mexican Manacoti



Pasta w/ Vodka Tomato Cream Sauce & Sausage

Salad w/  Homemade Italian Dressing 



Corn Bisque with Smoked Sausage 
Mayonnaise Biscuits 



Speedy Bagel Tuna Melt 
Coleslaw



Lentil & Ham Soup 



Green Chile Beef Tacos 
Basil, Roasted Peppers & Monterey Jack Cornbread 
Zesty Mexican Rice 

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Other Makings 

Brownie Batter + Cupcake (Cupcakes)

Chocolate Trifle

Mini Quiches

Sausage Balls

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Super Bowl Sunday!

Super Bowl Sunday is approaching soon!  Zac & I sat down and picked out several recipes to prepare for game day.  In fact I think we picked out so many that we'll be eating leftovers for a week!  But, truth is, I love appetizer type foods and what a more perfect day to prepare them!

You all know how this works..the food item will be a link to take you to the recipe I'm using, unless it's a personal one and I'm more than happy to share them.  Pictures of everything will be posted later.

Sloppy Joes

Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts

Hot Bean Dip 

Triangular Delights 

Honey - Garlic Glazed Meatballs 

Won Ton Wrapper Appetizers 

Easy Mini Quiches 

Hot Pizza Dip 

Lemon Bars 

Rice Krispie Treats