Crafting, DIY and LIfe
The love for Tex-Mex and Mexican food in our house is pretty obvious! You can see it week after week in my What to Cook Wednesday weekly menus. Plus, we’re regulars at our local Mexican restaurant and you’ll always find salsa in the house.
Typically, I focus on more traditional salsa and guacamole {although, I have been known to make the guacamole with bacon!}, but I decided I wanted to try my hand at a salsa verde recipe for something a little different.
Happy Wednesday!
I love that our Wednesdays here on the blog are filled with delicious recipes. Putting together a weekly menu is so much easier when you can find inspiration all around blog land.
Sunday: A stew might sound a little heavy for our warming temperatures but I loved the idea of a red lentil stew so I had to add it!
The boozy baking continues here at Just Us Four. I couldn’t just stop with the whoopie pies so I decided to try out some cupcakes too. After all, cupcakes are where my love of boozy baking originated.
After a few {dozen} texts with Liz, I settled on trying red velvet cupcakes first. She was very supportive and assured me that I couldn’t really mess this up. I mean…I was using wine and nothing is bad with wine 
Wow…we almost to 100 weeks of sharing a weekly menu plan with you! I hope, along the way, you’ve discovered some awesome recipes to make. I know I have found great resources for dinner ideas while putting the weekly menu plan together for this series.
Let’s see what I found this week in my online searching…
Sunday: We don’t cook very often but I would like to try and incorporate it into our diet more. What better way than adding it to the weekly menu? This week’s attempt: Pan seared salmon with bacon molasses vinaigrette
By now, I am sure you guys are all thinking that I am some kind of super wine-o with all of the boozy baking going on around here! I mean, we’ve had boozy whoopie pies and now I am bringing you a new cupcake with wine!
These cupcakes are different though…it is sparkling wine after all 
Life is ever so slowly getting back to normal after my trip. I have finally finished unpacking and am working on getting my inbox back down to a manageable size.
The need for dinner ideas doesn’t disappear because I am busy though so I am back this Wednesday with more ideas for your weekly menu! What to Cook Wednesday is ON!
Sunday: Let’s start our week out with an amazingly delicious garlic rosemary chicken. This recipe is the kind of stuff Sunday evening dinner dreams are made of!
I have a sweet tooth…a big one. Some days, I think all my teeth are sweet because my cravings are that strong. One of my absolute favorite things is salted caramel sauce. I love it on ice cream, in desserts…with just about anything sweet.
Warning…I am a chicken…with no head.
Why? Because I am heading to my first ever conference and I have a million things running around in my head.
Don’t worry though. I am still here with ideas for your weekly menu BUT the commentary will be very brief…like non-existent
Sunday: Lemongrass Salmon with Barley Salad
Yesterday, as part this flashback series, I shared one of my favorite warm weather snacks. Today, I’m going to unearth this one from the archives so I can share with you my favorite Asian slaw salad. It is made at least once a week at our house once the weath turns warm because it goes with just about anything we grill!
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Ok, you know I’m all about sharing with you tasty {but easy} recipes! I’m bringing this one out just in time for all the upcoming Spring and Summer picnics and potlucks. Why?
Because it P-E-R-F-E-C-T for them.
It’s an easy to throw together salad that holds up well!
What do you need to make it?
Cabbage (I use a mixture of napa and green. Or, when I’m lazy, I just pick up a bag of cole slaw mix)
Slivered almonds
Green onions
Sesame seeds
1 package of oriental flavored ramen
1/3 cup rice vinegar
2 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp sesame oil
Now, let’s get cooking!
Whew, my friends, we have made it to Wednesday! That means we are so close to the glorious time that is the weekend! For a lot of people the weekend also means grocery shopping so Wednesday seems like a great day to make our weekly menu plan!
Let’s take a look at some ideas that made it into this week’s What to Cook Wedneday!
Sunday: Few foods evoke childhood memories for me the way fried chicken does! A pan fried chicken sandwich with avocado hash seems like a very grown-up way to enjoy my childhood favorite.
