News Update

So here are the latest goings on in our CT home:

Lizzy -- Playing softball at school. Doing school work. Getting good grades. Spending time with her friends and Stas. Taking driver's ed.

Jaclyn -- Working hard at college to make it into the nursing program. Giving blood. Having fun with her friends.

Tammy -- Working at the hospital and school. Planning with her mom our summer vacation.

Me -- Working. Reading newspaper. Working out.

Bon Appétit

Since my last blog was somewhat like the Auto Section in "newspapers/gazettes", I thought I would take a stab at the Food Section in this one.

We start the meal process here at our home with a grocery list. And yes, I did just type "grocery list" as strange as that may seem to some people -- Stas. I print this list out from the weekly online Big Y circular. I choose the sale items that keep our home stocked with the ingredients that we need to make the core group of dishes that we enjoy -- at least most of us enjoy them -- Lizzy is hard to please. I then make a menu of the dinners we are going to be having that week being careful not to repeat a dish that we may have had within the last couple of weeks. Tammy and I then go shopping together -- this counts as a date night -- right? When we get home from shopping, I then put all the groceries away in their correct cupboards and shelves. As the adage goes, “a place for everything and everything in its place" -- or as others might put it -- "You're OCD".

Now as to what we eat, below is a list of our regular fare.

Breakfast
Bagels/English muffins
Cereal
Pop Tarts

Lunch
Dinner leftovers
Frozen meals
Sandwiches

Dinner
Cheese, pepperoni, & crackers
Chicken & rice
Chilli & cornbread
Cholocate chip pancakes/French toast
Eggs, bacon, & toast
Fish with salad
Hamburgers & french fries
Hamburger/Chicken Helper
Hot dogs/corn dogs & macaroni and cheese
Kielbasa & pierogies
Pork chops & potatoes
Shepherd's pie
Soup and sandwiches
Spaghetti & meatballs/Tortellini
Sweet sausages & vegetables
Tacos/burritos
Tuna noodle casserole

To this list we add the occasional:
Chicken tetrazini/parmesan
Chicken & dumplings
Cheeseburger/Frito pie
Lasagna
Omaha steaks
Pot roast
Pork tenderloin
Spanish rice with hamburger
Ziti with leftover sausages

Holidays/Special Occasions
Thanksgiving - Turkey and all the trimmings/fixings
Christmas Eve and Easter - Honey glazed ham and all the Thanksgiving trimmings/fixings
Costco Pot pie
Shrimp

For any of the recipes to the above meals, please send a self-addressed stamped e-mail to tg028@netzero.net. (I had to add that to make it have more of that Food Section flavor.)