Chicken, tomatoes, and mushrooms

Sorry about the delay again, but I wasn't cooking anything interesting. I cooked spaghetti, with our favorite, Ragu sauce, not much cooking involved. Then we made tacos, we used the Meijer brand taco kit, which was terrible!!!! From now on we will stick with the Taco Bell brand kit or go free style with our taco making. The above photo is Chicken, tomatoes and mushrooms, we LOVE it, it is so easy to make, it doesn't take much time and it's pretty healthy. The recipe is at www.marthastewart.com just look up chicken, tomatoes and mushrooms.

Horseradish-Mashed-Potato Shepherd's Pie

This is Horseradish-Mashed-Potato Shepherd's Pie, it was pretty good, Jason LOVED it, but then he does love stuff like that. If you want to try it just search the recipe on Rachael Ray dot com again. It was fairly easy to make, but somewhat time consuming, but I am a slow chopper, so that could just be me. But you do have to make the mashed potatoes first then the meat goodness. This also has parsnips in it, that and the horseradish were my favorite part. Jason called the parsnips white carrots, because he is an idiot.

Oscar Night Enchiladas

These were fabulous!! We are very happy to find another recipe that doesn't involve meat, since we are trying to eat less. This recipe also includes a ton of heart healthy garlic, good for your bowels cannellini beans. Also, Tracy, this can be made vegan really easily. Sooo, if anyone is interested, just go to Rachael Ray dot com and search for Garlicky Bean Enchiladas.

Saturday Night Chili Fever.

This is extremely delicious Chili, due 50% to Katie and 50% to Jason, we are Chili making partners in life. I added some, then he added some, and then I restrained myself from adding some more. It has diced tomatos, onions, garlic, ground beef, pasta, jalapenos, Red Gold Chili beans, Black beans, sugar, Tastefully Simple Wahoo Chili powder and Shiner Bock (an awesome beer that is pretty hard to come by). Our chili is totally different everytime we make it. Last night was a good night.

The kinda distant past....

The top photo is a picture of Taco Twist, which consists of ground beef, taco seasoning, green pepper, tomato sauce, pasta, cheese and sour cream. If anyone is taken with this idea let me know and I'll post the recipe. It's pretty good! The next photo is Green Chili Stew, it is a slow cooker meal, with stew beef and green chili. I honestly didn't like it enough to post the recipe. (as I would have to type it, it came out of a magazine.)

Sorry!!!!

Sorry about the long delay! I'll try to do better in the future. I have a few pictures from the past and I'm going to post the picture of our dinner tonight and hopefully will post all of our meals this week.
Here's our menu:
Sunday
Garlicky Enchiladas
Taco Rice
Monday
Horseradish-Mashed-potato Shephards Pie
Tuesday
Chicken, Tomatos & Mushrooms
Pasta
Broccoli
Wednesday
Spaghetti
Garlic Bread
Thursday
Tacos
Taco Rice
Corn

Honey-Dijon Chicken

Honey-Dijon Chicken is one of my favorite dinners, it is never dry and it has a wonderful flavor. I actually follow this recipe exactly and it always turns out delicious. It is a very simple recipe and there really isn't all that much about it that needs explained.

Last Week, This Week

Last week, I only made Chicken & dumplings and Spaghetti. Every other night we ate fast food. I was too sick to cook, so the next worst thing I guess. The Chicken and dumplings were fabulous. It made a huge amount and we froze some to eat in a few weeks. I'll let everyone know how it re-heats. The recipe I used is by Paula Deen and it's simple and de-lish! I added carrots and I didn't use a whole chicken because they were too big, I used a package of chicken breast and a pack of drum sticks so I had some dark meat. The dumpling were extremely easy to make, but they are the tougher dumplings not the fluffy kind. Still they were good.
This weeks menu is going to slightly mimic last weeks because I still have the ingredients for the meals I didn't make. Hopefully I'll be more successful this week.
Sunday
Honey-Dijon Chicken
Mashed potatoes
Peas
Monday
Green Chili Stew
Corn bread
Tuesday
Rachael's "Fixed-Up" Chicken & Vegetable Casserole
Wednesday
Tilapia
Lipton noodles
Broccoli
Thursday
Taco Twist
Friday
Herbed Tomatoes Beans and Rice Supper

Sunday: Chicken and Dumplings

I'll write about this later, I just wanted to post something. The reason I've been delayed in posting is that I've been sick, soo... more to come later, hope this will tide you over.

This week's menu

We just got done making our menu for this week, and I think it's obvious I am in the mood for comfort food. It is the middle of winter after all... Anyway, comfort food seems to be synonymous with high calorie, so I tired to work on that in order to fit in with our diets. Also I didn't mention it in the previous post, but when I make our menu I try to consider budget, because we are definitely on one of those, so I often will past over some recipes in favor of recipes that contain things I already have at home. So without further ado...
Sunday
Chicken and Dumplings
Mashed potatoes
Corn
Monday
Spaghetti
Garlic bread
Tuesday
Rachael's "Fixed-up" Chicken and Veggie casserole
Broccoli
Wednesday
Tilapia
Lipton noodles
Peas
Thursday
Green Chili Stew
Corn bread
Friday
Homemade pizza

New Blog! Mission Statement

I decided to start this blog, as a way of organizing what we have for dinner; what we like and don't like, in order to make menu planning easier. I also thought, maybe it would help others plan "What's for Dinner"! I also will occasionally do restaurant reviews for places in Muncie and the Indianapolis area. Hopefully the majority of the food and recipes I post will be healthy, because like everyone else we have our New Year resolutions. Every day I hope to post what we had for dinner, any recipes, my review and my husbands reactions and also a photo of our dinner.
- Katie