17 W – Minestrone Soup, Italian Sweet Bread
18 R – Beef & Bacon Stroganoff, Noodles, Carrots
19 F – Chicken Ranch Potatoes, Salad
20 S – Italian Shepherd’s Pie, Salad
21 U – Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, Tomato Soup
22 M – Parmesan Chicken, Scalloped Potatoes, Carrots
Last week I didn't get around to posting my meal plan. Our meatless meal was Creamy Butternut Squash Soup and Onion Cheddar Biscuits. The butternut squash really surprised me. I am very "take it or leave it" when it comes to squash and I did not expect to like it. It was very mild, but the biscuits more than made up for that. They were tasty and "dippable" in the soup. In the end, I have found that no matter how emphatically you insist to children that avocado or butternut squash have basically no unusual taste, they cannot get past the unusual color!
Today, although I have never made a special meal to acknowledge the passing of Mardi Gras, I thought it would be a great time to have gumbo. I followed the recipe linked, except I used chicken and smoked sausage instead of shrimp.
Our Mardi Gras meal was inspired by a recipe in Taste of Home for King Cake. Instead of making a real King Cake, I saved 1/3 of the cake we baked for Rob's birthday and froze it. We iced it with a lemon glaze and colored sugar (we had to make the yellow and purple). We searched for a tiny plastic baby everywhere we went - but only found what we were looking for this morning at a cake shop - actually I had to buy 6 for $.89.
Annalise found the baby :)
And in a failed effort to occupy the children while I made a roux, I had them make Mardi Gras masks, I say failed because they painted the table, the floor, and themselves green in the process. I guess the mask came out ok ;)
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