Menu for April 13 - April 19. It's been a very yummy week!

Here we are again. One more Sunday evening (a very rainy one where I'm at).  One more week under our belts.  One more sleep until we start it all over again.  After some food prep earlier in the day for the upcoming week, it was a rather lazy day.  The husband and I did spend some time outside doing bits of yard work between rain showers and started cleaning our screened porch because everything was COVERED in thick, yellow pollen!  Anyone from GA, SC and FL can relate, I'm sure.  ICK!  That's really about it.  It was all chillaxin' after that!

We had a pretty uneventful week around here, actually. We sure did eat well, though!  I have been craving something sweet all week, so today, I broke down and baked!  I bought some beautiful strawberries yesterday that were calling out to me....they wanted to be served with cake!  I was happy to oblige!  Meme's recipe for One Egg Cake is perfect for strawberry shortcake, so I whipped one up quickly.  Cake, strawberries with their yummy, sweet juice and some vanilla ice cream will be a wonderful treat!  YUMMMM

I wish you all a fabulous week!  

Monday April 13- Crunchy Asian salad with grilled chicken

Tuesday April 14- Hamburg barbecue and baked sweet potatoes

Wednesday April 15- Pierogies with carmalized onions and a tossed salad

Thursday April 16- Ham chowder and beer bread

Friday April 17- Left overs

Saturday April 18- Deluxe cheeseburger salad 

Sunday April 19- Applewood smoked chicken, malt vinegar seasoned roasted gem potatoes and sautéed green beans with garlic

Meme Bair's One Egg Cake

2/3 cup sugar

1/4 cup Crisco

1 large egg

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup milk

1 1/2 cups flour

1/4 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix sugar, Crisco, egg and vanilla until creamy.  Add flour, salt and baking powder.  Slowly mix in milk until all ingredients are well blended. Batter will be thick.

Pour into a greased 8x8 square pan. Bake for about 20 minutes.  

Cool completely before serving.

**This is not a light and fluffy cake.  It is rather heavy, making it perfect for strawberry shortcake!  Let the juice soak in, top with some whipped cream or ice cream.....so darn good!

Enjoy!

Menu plan 4/6 - 4/12 and the recipe I use for Pizza Dough

Hello everyone!  I've managed to stick with a dinner time plan over the last week, for the most part!  There was only one day that I veered off course...but that was for take out ribs and wings, so that is A - OK! 

 I even sat down and planned out a few meals for the upcoming week AND prepped a few things to stick in the freezer (shameless plug.....I am loving my Tastefully Simple freezer meal packs!!  Let me know if you'd like more info!). Yesterday was the prep day....I was supposed to be helping dear hubby with the pool and yard work.....instead I spent a good portion of the day slaving away in the kitchen (tee he he I love cooking, so it's really not so bad.  Way better than pulling the pollen and leaf covered solar cover off the pool!).

Here is our menu from last week.  Hope it can help to give some of you new or forgotten meal ideas!  Would love to hear from you if you try any of my recipes and meal ideas!  Also, is there something that you'd like to "see" me try and get my take on it?  Let me know!  I'm always looking for new recipes and meal ideas!

Mon. April 6 - Easter leftovers (ham, sweet potatoes, green beans, rolls, deviled eggs and carrot cake)

Tues. April 7 - Chicken enchilada casserole

Wed. April 8 - Hot dogs on the grill and baked beans

Thurs. April 9 - Ribs, wings, baked beans and bread

Fri. April 10 - Chicken Parmesan with spaghetti

Sat. April 11 - Hamburgers on the grill w/ lettuce, tomato and onions, pickles

Sun. April 12 - Caprese grilled pizzas (using the pizza flats I made yesterday)

Pizza Dough 

5 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp salt

5 tsp fast rise yeast

2 tsp agave syrup or honey

2 cups water @ 120-130 degrees

2 TBS olive oil (I used Avacado oil yesterday and it worked just fine)

*Optional add ins: Italian  seasoning, garlic powder, dehydrated onion or garlic (I used my Tastefully Simple Onion Onion in one batch and Garlic Garlic in another batch)

Place 3 cups of flour in mixer and make a well in the middle.  Add the rest of the ingredients into the well.  Mix with paddle attachment for 2-3 minutes.  Add 1 cup flour.  Switch to dough hook.  While mxing slowly, add the last up of flour.  Mix for 3 minutes.  When dough is finished mixing, put into a greased bowl and cover.  Let rise 20 - 30 minutes.  Punch down, cut into whatever portion size you'd like.  I get 6 decent sized "personal" flats (crusts) per batch.

Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes.  Cool completely.  Store 3-5 in a gallon sized freezer bag.  Freeze.  

When ready to use, take out what you need, thaw briefly, top and cook....bake at 425 until cheese is melted OR cook on the grill!

These are great for quick lunches or evenings when you just are not in the mood to cook.  Also great for the kids!  My girl made a pizza a day a few years ago when I was out of town and left a freezer full of home made pizza flats.  EVERY day may be excessive, but worked for her! LOL

I got this recipe from a sweet friend who I met in Georgia.  She had a bunch of gals over one day to make "pizza flats" together.  Each of us contributed ingredients, took turns mixing, rolling, baking and bagging....and we all left with a ton of delicious flats to take home and freeze.  What a fun time!  

ENJOY!

Fresh off the grill Caprese pizza. YUM!