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Please pardon the odd look of the site while I figure out a way to make this Lifestyle theme work here. I thought I could fix it up myself but now I think I’ll have to ask for help.  I’m not sure about the red  background and the blue border, don’t be surprised if your return visits here show completely different colors on a daily basis :)

I planned seven meals yesterday morning,  including last night’s dinner going into the weekend.   As always, visit I’m an Organizing Junkie, the home of Menu Monday, to post a link to your meal plan or see hundreds of others!

Sunday:  Oven BBQ Chicken breast, mashed potatoes, corn

Monday: Sloppy Joes (Manwich), oven fries, green beans

Tuesday: Tuna Casserole, biscuits, peas

Wednesday: Spaghetti with Meat Sauce, garlic bread, corn

Thursday: Burritos, chips with salsa

Friday: Pizza Night

Saturday: Chili, Corn Muffins

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Tags: meal plans, menu plan monday, weekly menu

Here are this week’s questions from Val at Fun, Crafts and Recipes:

1. Name two items on your kitchen counter.
2. What’s in your sink now?
3. What’s on your stove now?
4. What’s in your oven now?

And here are my answers:

1. Coffeemaker and Toaster
2. Dinner dishes
3. A DiGiorno Rising Crust Pizza
4. A DiGiorno Garlic Bread Pizza

Feel free to play along in the comments!

Tags: cooking, DiGiorno, Four Foods on Friday, Home, Pizza

Please pardon the mess around here while I try to find a new theme. The old theme I was using is no longer being updated, and it stopped cooperating about 3 Wordpress upgrades ago. I’ve been making do so far, but I’m still looking for something that works out of the box.

One of the biggest problems I’m having is that themes that work in Firefox will often be totally messed up in Explorer. I use Firefox pretty much exclusively except for lately when it’s been crashing all the freaking TIME, so I’ve been forced to use Explorer instead. Blogs look totally different in Explorer than they do in Firefox!

Anyway, that’s why the theme here keeps changing, because I’m trying to find something that looks good.  Thanks for your patience!

Tags: Blogging, firefox, internet explorer, themes

Help my recipe for Easy Salsa Chili make it into the Foodista.com Best of Food Blogs Cookbook! Please vote by clicking this badge! edited to add: I’ve been informed that you will have to create an account for Foodista in order to vote.  I hope everyone knows how much I appreciate it!

EASY SALSA CHILI

Ingredients:

1 ½ pounds ground round
3 cans dark red kidney beans, liquid drained
24 ounces thick and chunky salsa (mild, or as hot as you like)
16 ounces canned tomato sauce
Garlic powder
onion powder
salt

Directions:

Crumble the ground beef into a large pot.

Sprinkle liberally with salt, garlic powder, and onion powder. Brown the ground beef, breaking it up with a wooden spoon. Drain any grease by dumping the meat into a colander in the sink, then wipe out the bottom of the pot if necessary.

Put the ground beef back in the pot.

Add the 3 cans of drained kidney beans, the jar of salsa, and the can of tomato sauce.

Stir well to combine and taste to adjust seasonings.

Turn the heat up to high until the surface of the chili starts to boil, stirring occasionally.

Once it comes to a boil, cover the pot and turn the heat down to medium low, just enough to keep the chili simmering.

Simmer about an hour, stirring occasionally.

If you vote, please let me know in a comment! Thank you my lovely readers!

Tags: chili recipe, cookbook, easy salsa chili, foodista

While browsing blogs over the weekend, I came across this recipe post – http://lifeasmom.com/2009/03/urs-pasta.html

She makes a huge pot of tomato sauce, lets it simmer, and then adds UNCOOKED italian sausage links and lets those simmer in the sauce for two hours. I’ve always browned ground italian sausage and then added the tomato products to it.

Now I’m really curious to see if cooking it Jessica’s way will make my sauce taste that much better!

Tags: cooking, Sausage, Tomato sauce