cultivating me

Our family is having a gift exchange this year and I’ve been struggling with what to get the people we’ve been assigned.  Frankly, it made me quite the cranky pants!  A great deal has changed in the last 24 hours as I finally began to think of things to get – things I think people [...]

On Sunday it was decided that the family would come to our house for the holiday.  We’ll either be a family of 5, 9 or 12 depending on who actually shows or doesn’t.  Sweet’s family is more of a “we’ll wait and see” kind of family than mine is.  At times, I have a hard [...]

I’ve been having so much fun reading through the comments left on my crock pot giveaway!  It seems there are a couple of dominant answers to my question of what is your biggest challenge when it comes to getting dinner on the table during the week. Number one on the list seems to be having [...]

Everywhere I look there seems to be something else to add to one of the many lists that I have rolling around inside my head. I constantly am making mental notes about things that I want to remember and you know what? most times I don’t remember – duh! Well constantly forgetting things made me [...]

Bonus points if you know what show that line is from ;O) My spring break is over so it is back to reality for me. Now more than ever, I am grateful for taking the time to plan my menu. It is one less thing I have to worry about in the midst of all [...]

Last week, I tried some new recipes and let me tell you how happy I was to have done so. Here’s a quick review: The Arroz con Pollo was fabulous. The recipe calls for a dry white wine but instead I substituted chicken broth and it come out just fine. My sweetie had leftovers for [...]

I am proud to announce those recipes that have made it into this weeks menu plan. While I have not been posting, I have been planning and menu planning continues to make my life so much easier. I am excited to try many new recipes this week. I have neglected my wonderful cook book collection [...]

One of my current obsessions, along with handbags and boots,  is cookbooks.  Imagine how happy I was to find a box full of them waiting for me when I returned home on Saturday night!  It certainly made planning dinners for the much more fun.  All the dinners this week are new recipes which I know [...]

Ah hah! I got to my menu plan on time this week. In fact, I got to it early and made up my menu over dinner saturday night with the help of my son. Here is what is for dinner this week Sunday: Enchilada Casserole – we didn’t get to this last week because of [...]

At the moment, I sort of have no idea for this week. I didn’t get to making a plan yesterday and so am throwing one together this afternoon! EEEEK! The good news is that I have dinner for tonight in the fridge and can shop tomorrow for the rest. Last week, I had a plan [...]