Menu Plan Monday - Jan 24th

I made it easy on myself this week and remembered to use an Excel document I found for planning my menu.  It took me all of 5 minutes!  It helped that I found some stuff on sale at the grocery store that I actually FELT like making!

	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snacks (2)	Prep for Tomorrow
Monday	cereal	C – sandwiches girls - platter	pasta	apple slices, yogurt	thaw bacon
Tuesday	Toast & fruit	leftover pasta	french toast & bacon	grapes, goldfish	thaw soup, make banana bread
Wednesday	cereal	leftover french toast	Minestrone & cheese biscuits	yogurt, grapes	thaw beef
Thursday	Toast &fruit	leftover soup	pasta	goldfish, apple slices	make popcorn, grate cheese
Friday	cereal	leftover pasta	nachos	popcorn, yogurt	thaw pizza ingredients
Saturday	family	FFA	pizza	FFA	thaw pork chops, precook potatoes
Sunday	FFA	FFA	pork chops, twice baked potatoes, corn	FFA

Would you like some recipes?  Here you go!

Easy Vegetable Minestrone - I got this from Recipezaar* in 2009. We all love it! Except Turtle, she's not a big fan of the beans.  I am not a fan of pesto, so I add the leafy bits of a fresh bunch of parsley. I love how it looks!

Baked Pork Chops - another Recipezaar recipe. We all love this one. You can use dijon honey mustard as your prepared mustard too. Caution - this makes a LOT! We divide it in half for our family of four.

Now for some family recipes!

Baking Powder Biscuits

Preheat oven to 450F

2 cups flour    4 tsp baking powder    1/2 tsp salt    4 tbsp shortening (I use margarine or butter)   milk

1. Sift dry ingredients together.  Cut in margarine** 

2.  Add enough milk to form a soft dough. 

3. Roll out dough and form rough balls (my gramma always used a glass to cut them out)  

4. Bake for 10-12 minutes until golden brown

Easy Banana Bread

Preheat oven to 350F

1/3 cup melted shortening    3/4 cup sugar    2 overripe (I freeze them, so they go BLACK) bananas, diced

1 egg    2 cups flour    1 tsp baking powder    1/2 tsp baking soda    1 tsp salt    3/4 cup milk    1 tsp vanilla extract

1. Grease loaf pans

2. Mix wet and dry ingredients separately

3. Alternately mix the wet and dry ingredients together in a large bowl until the mixture is smooth

4. Pour the batter into the loaf pans and bake for 1 hour or until brown

I'm linking up over at Organizing Junkie's.

*Yes, Recipezaar is now food.com. I like using Recipezaar better!

**Best way to cut in margarine/butter ever? Use the largest holes on your box cheese grater! Goodbye pastry cutter!