Veg, Meat & Cheese Platter

On Saturday we had my husband's work Christmas party for the children, so it was long, busy, snack filled day.  Both my husband and I just wanted to do nothing but relax once we got home........well so did the kids!!  So we made a platter for dinner that contained......marble cheese, cucumbers with ranch dip, grape tomatoes,  green grapes, polish sausage,  whole wheat melba toast and cantaloupe.  For a mix match supper it was good and healthy and we ate it in front of the TV just so we could watch Rio!!
It was a fun dinner and movie twist and I like that it was good and healthy for the kids (and the hubby and myself too)

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Dinner at a Friends

So Friday we were invited to our friends house for dinner.  This is a pretty common thing for us, we try to switch back and forth, but we enjoy doing dinner with these guys.  So we packed up the kids and headed on over.......there was a large group of us there (7 Adults and 6 kids).  It was a good night we all just hung out and had dinner and than played some cards after.........good food, good friends, good fun!!

We ate chicken burgers with fries (regular and sweet potato) and a salad too.

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Sloppy Joes

So on Thursday night we had Sloppy Joes.  I have never made this for my family before.......EVER!!  I have always wanted to but, to be honest, I was kinda scared of making it......the whole idea of putting that much ketchup into anything just grossed me out.  So I put on my big girl apron and sucked it up 'hunny, we are cooking with ketchup tonight'.  So I got to looking for some recipes and found one that seemed easy and I could put a twist on it.......BBQ sauce, and that is a little less scary to me. This recipe did turn out great, I was very pleased with it, i put it on some warmed hamburger style bun and served it with a caesar salad!!

1 pound lean ground beef 
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped green bell pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon prepared yellow mustard
3/4 cup ketchup
3 teaspoons brown sugar
salt to taste
ground black pepper to taste


Directions



1. In a medium skillet over medium heat, brown the ground beef, onion, and green pepper; drain off liquids.
2. Stir in the garlic powder, mustard, ketchup, and brown sugar; mix thoroughly. Reduce heat, and simmer for 30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

**So like always I doubled my recipe, and used 1/2 half of an onion and 3/4 of a green pepper, about 2-3 tspn of mustard, and did not use brown sugar at all, i used about 1c of ketchup and about 3/4c of thick and spicy BBQ sauce**

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Take out Pizza

Today was a busy day!!  We had friends over this afternoon, and than my husband had come home from work at 3 to eat lunch/supper and the 2 youngest kids had not napped by that point in the day.  Sooo we ate out!!!   By the time that the kiddies had woken up it was after 5 and supper still had not been started ( i was wiped out) so i thought lets just order pizza!!
There is this great little place here in town that we LOVE, its a privately owned place and the pizza there is legendary!!  So i got a Med Canadian (pep, bacon and mush) and a small Hawaiian (ham, bacon and pineapple) it was a good supper.  A nice end to a busy day.

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Shrimp Carbonara

So Tuesday's dinner was good!!!
I made shrimp carbonara and it turned out very good, and was pretty easy to make........I like easy dinners!!  I make something very similar to this, but that is for another day....lol

So here is the recipe
220g Spaghetti  (i used 400g)
4 Slices of bacon, chopped
1-lb (450g) of uncooked deveined peeled large shrimp
1 cup frozen peas
1 tub (250g) herb and garlic cream cheese
1/2 c milk
1/4 c Parmesan cheese

Start cooking your spaghetti (no salt) while that cooks fry your bacon in a pan until crisp. Remove bacon from pan when cooked, drain all but about 1tbsp of drippings from pan and than add your shrimp. Cook and stir until its pink (about 5 mins) than stir in your peas and cook for about 1 min or so.  Add your cream cheese and milk, cook and stir until cream cheese is mealted and  sauce is thickened, do not let it boil.
Drain your noodles and mix everything together, Top with parmesan!!

*TIPS*
I used the extra thick cut bacon for mine as i found it held together better.  And you could just use regular Alfredo sauce instead of the cream cheese

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Cajun Catfish/Sausage and Rice and Broccoli

So Monday night was a bit of a crazy dinner.  We had cajun catfish that needed to be cooked before it went bad but the kids are not huge fans of fish, well neither am I, hence why I added some sausage to the mix.  It was just a basic dinner, nothing special, but a regular around this house!!

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I just pan friend the pre-seasoned catfish in some EVOO for about 5-6 mins a side on med.

For the sausage I let it fry for a minute on each side to get some marks on them and than I added water to my pan and covered it with a lid and let it cook like that until cooked through.

For my rice I used long grain white rice and added chicken broth until it was about 1/2 inch above the rice in the pot and than went around the pot twice with soya sauce (no water at all) I than cooked my broccoli in a pot with about half an inch in the bottom with a lid on........it kinda steams it.  And that is it, its was a pretty easy dinner tonight, but still tasty!!

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Pork Roast with Potatoes and Carrots

So Sunday night we had friends over for supper and I thought I would make a pork roast for supper, a nice easy way to feed 4 adults and 5 children.  So pork roasts are pretty easy to make and I enjoy eating them.
So I started out by using a pork loin roast and than chopped some potatoes and put everything in the pan and added some baby carrots and than added some spices (sage, thyme, rosemary,oregano and marjoram) and than put a small amount of chicken broth in the bottom of the pan (its what i had in the house) and let it cook from 1:30-3 at 250 and than turned it up 300 at 3:00 and let it cook like that till about 4:30 and than turned the over off and let it sit in the pan for 30 mins while the oven was off.  I made club house gravy and used the pan drippings but I mixed mushroom gravy and brown gravy since I only had 1 of each and needed more than 1 packet.  And served it with a caesar salad on the side

Sorry its kinda dark..........my camera was dying

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