Today is parent-teacher conferences. Always an interesting experience as a high school teacher. Did your parents go to conferences when you were in high school? That's what I thought. Anyways, I'm hoping for a super productive day between my conferences. I won't have much time to work this week since Weds I have a doctor's appointment and Friday, my sister from Chicago will be in town for a wedding... so we're hoping to have an early afternoon coffee date :-)
Here's our menu for the week:
Sunday: made Chicken Tortilla Soup in the crock pot during church... this is seriously one of my favorite clean out the fridge meals ever. I had green onions & carrots, so those went in... along with brown rice. And I use 3 tsp of cumin. However, is mostly for lunches this week, since we will be having dinner with our small group after pumpkin & apple picking! I'm taking corn bread.
Here's our menu for the week:
Sunday: made Chicken Tortilla Soup in the crock pot during church... this is seriously one of my favorite clean out the fridge meals ever. I had green onions & carrots, so those went in... along with brown rice. And I use 3 tsp of cumin. However, is mostly for lunches this week, since we will be having dinner with our small group after pumpkin & apple picking! I'm taking corn bread.
Monday: parent teacher conferences & the PTO is providing us with a late lunch/early dinner.
Tuesday: Saffron Rice w/ italian sausage (see below), rice & garlic naan
Wednesday: the BIG ultrasound!!! Followed by a date at Brio or Bon Vie ($2.95 bar bites, yum!) to celebrate finding out if it's a boy or a girl. If the baby doesn't cooperate, we are STILL going out to eat :)
Thursday: Buttermilk Pancakes, Eggs, Sausage & Fruit
Friday: frozen pizza!
Saturday: Caramel Apple Pork Chops, Pierogies & green beans
Saffron Rice with Sausage
this is a recipe from an after school cooking class I took in 5th grade :-)
3 T olive oil
3 cloves minced garlic
3/4 cup chopped onion
2 cups basmati rice
4 cups chicken broth
1 lb italian sausage
2 pinches of saffron (it's totally worth the splurge for the flavor)
salt & pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In an oven proof pan, heat olive oil. Add garlic and onion and sauté over medium head until the onion is transparent. Add sausage, breaking up into bite size pieces, and cook until almost done.
Add rice, chicken broth and saffron. Season with salt and pepper. Stir, cover, and bring to a boil. Place covered pan in the oven and cook for about 20 minutes. Remove and let sit covered for about 5 more minutes.
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