Meal Plan Monday

It's that time, time for Meal Plan Monday!  Here is our plan for this coming week:

Sunday - Slow Cooker Meatballs, Rice and Salad

Monday - Butternut Squash Soup and Sandwiches

Tuesday - Chicken Stir Fry

Wednesday - Leftovers

Thursday - Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos

Friday - Butter Chicken

Saturday - Homemade Pizza

I hope you find some inspiration in the list above!

Scrumptious Sunday Recipe Link Party #73 and Features!

Good morning friends!  Welcome back to my blog.  It's almost time for this week's Scrumptious Sunday Recipe Link Party!  

First though, we need to check out the featured recipes from last week's party:

English Muffin Breakfast Pizzas from The Thriftiness Miss

One Whopper of a Cookie Recipe from A Peek Into My Paradise

Easy Fried Rice from Cooking with K

Now, head on over to this week's party - Scrumptious Sunday Recipe Link Party #73 is now live!  Come check out some recipes, and share yours!  Thank you so much!

Sticky 5 Spice Ribs

Everyone knows that I just love the Whitewater Cooks cookbook series.  I have had great success with many of the recipes from those books.  Everyone also knows that I have rib lovers in my house.  We have had some great success with some rib recipes - (check out my Maple Glazed Ribs as well as the Sweet & Spicy Ribs, but of course, I needed to try a new recipe too!  Enter Whitewater Cooks, and a recipe that called for Chinese 5 Spice, a flavour that I really enjoy.

Sticky 5 Spice Ribs

4 lbs baby back ribs
4 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
1 teaspoon Chinese 5 Spice
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup hoisin sauce

In a bowl, mix together the rice wine vinegar, brown sugar, oyster sauce, Chinese 5 Spice, minced garlic and hoisin sauce.

Take the racks of ribs and put into a Ziploc bag.  You may need to cut the ribs down in size to fit into the bag.  Pour the sauce over the ribs, seal the bag, and refrigerate.  I did this first thing in the morning, and let the ribs marinate in the sauce until dinner that day.

When it is time to prepare your meal, preheat the oven to 400F.  Place the ribs on a foil-lined baking sheet, and bake for 10 minutes at 400F.  After 10 minutes, reduce the heat to 300F and continue baking for 40 minutes.  Be sure to turn and baste the ribs occasionally.

VERDICT:
My husband thought these were "OK" - he's not a big hoisin guy.  Me however, I really enjoyed the flavour.  I even didn't mind the sticky (coming from a girl who hates eating with her fingers LOL!)

Recipe Recap #34

Hello everyone, Happy Tuesday to you!  How has your day been?  Mine was GREAT!  Had a good day at work, had a lovely lunch out with friends, the kids had great days at school and daycare, and we had a wonderful evening together, playing and on Facetime with Gramma and Grampa.

It's time for this week's Recipe Recap.  I am featuring the recipes from September 22 - 28, 2012.  I hope you enjoy!

Summertime Pasta with Tomato and Basil

I also hosted a "Lunch Box Link Party" so that other bloggers could share their lunch box recipes and ideas!

See you next week!

Meal Plan Monday

Hello friends, Happy Monday!  I hope your week is getting off to a good start. How are your meal plans coming for this week?

Here is the meal plan that I have prepared for my family for this week:

Sunday - Beef Stew

Monday - Leftovers (Beef Stew, Homemade Hamburger Helper, Broccoli and Cheddar Soup)

Tuesday - Zesty Broccoli and Shrimp

Wednesday - Spaghetti

Thursday - Leftovers

Friday - Freezer Clean Out

Saturday - Grilled Chicken (with Lemon Pepper Seasoning) and Grilled Vegetables

I hope you enjoy!

Scrumptious Sunday Recipe Link Party #72 & Features!

Good morning everyone, and a Happy Sunday to you!  How has your weekend been?  Ours has been great!  Hockey started yesterday for our 6 year old (season 2) and he is so very excited.  Which is good, because he isn't a big fan of swimming lessons (also on Saturday mornings) - but since we live in a city surrounded by lakes, our kids must take swimming lessons.  Later today we are back to the hockey rink for another practice...and the rest of our day will be spent hanging out together.  Love Sundays!

Before we get to this week's party, here are the features from Scrumptious Sunday Recipe Link Party #71:

51 Halloween Treats Made Simple from SugarKissed.net

A Month of Frozen Meals from Atkinson Drive

Cheesy Pull Apart Sourdough Bread from Five Little Chefs

Congratulations everyone!

Now, time to head over to this week's party and share your recipes!

Blueberry Lemon Muffins

Muffins, muffins, muffins.  I love muffins.  You know that by the number of muffin recipes I've posted here at Addicted to Recipes :-)

We are gearing up for back to school, which means I will be back to making muffins each week.  I'm already in planning mode, and was reading through some cookbooks and found a recipe for Raspberry Lemon Muffins in my Taste of Home The Complete Guide to Country Cooking, which I modified a bit...here is the recipe:

Blueberry Lemon Muffins

2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup half-and-half cream
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest
Juice from 1/2 fresh lemon
2 cups blueberries, washed and dried

Preheat oven to 400F. Prepare muffin cups with paper liners.

Mix together the eggs, half-and-half, oil and lemon zest. 

In a second bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.  Gently stir in the blueberries.  Fill muffin cups 2/3 full.  Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until golden.  Remove from oven and cool.

VERDICT:
These were lovely.  A nice, light lemon flavour, which is to my liking.  I am not usually a big fan of lemon flavour, but maybe it is from all those fake lemon flavourings.  There's something about that fresh lemon!  My kids loved these, they inhaled them!