1. Chicken Parmesan
2. Slow Cooker BBQ Shredded Beef Sandwiches w/ Sweet Potato Fries w/ Aioli
3. White Cheddar Chicken Pasta (We had way too many leftovers, so we had leftovers instead.)
4. Four Meat Pizza Casserole
5. Out
6. Out
7. Out

This week is unusually short due to a night of celebration and a trip to visit my parents.  But Art is home all week so I’m sure the week will fly entirely too fast.  I don’t really have any goals this week because, well, I’m feeling goalless in general.  My main goal for the week is just working on getting back into the swing of real life.  Meals 2 and 4 will use some of the awesome meat from our half cow.  I’ve also started talking with a local farmer about the possibility of getting a half pig in the future. 

Life is good.

1. grilled burgers w/ Sweet Potato Fries w/ Aioli
2. Baked Angel Hair with Eggplant
3. Ham and Cheese Macaroni Bake with Peas
4. Asian Salmon w/ Ginger Green Rice
5. Slow Cooker Coconut Beef w/ rice Changed to leftovers which was then changed to Chipotle
6. Grilled Chicken w/ Creamy Potato Salad
7. Chicken Parmesan Moved to next week due to company.  Changed to Eye Round Roast w/ Horseradish Cream Sauce w/ Parmesan Zucchini w/ Garlic and Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes

I am so happy to be home and cooking again.  No matter how delicious food is at fantastic Indianapolis restaurants, there’s nothing like home cooked food. 

I had a few goals with meal planning this week.  The first was indulging in Art’s desire to grill so we’re doing burgers for meal 1 and chicken for meal 6.  Another goal was to use vegetables.  Those are mainly in meals 1, 2, and 6.  The rest of the meals are a combination of recipes from my delicious bookmarks and recipes that need new pictures. 

It should be a fantastic week.  I’ve also got a lot of cow, but that will be in a forthcoming article.  Once I get the SD card out of my camera.  It’s like ten whole feet away from me.  Entirely too far.

1. Out
2. Out
3. Leftover Tetrazzini
4. Oven-Fried Coconut Chicken and Rice w/ broccoli
5. Out
6. Out
7. Grilled things - steak, corn, and veggies w/ Rice Cooker Jasmine Bell Pepper Rice

This is a super exciting meal plan, eh?  Lance and I got home late Monday night after entirely too long on the road.  I’ll be posting a number of restaurant review posts in the days to come.  On Tuesday night we enjoyed some tetrazzini from the freezer and Wednesday night is a meal that I had planned for the week before we left. 

I’d be happy to continue the week with home cooked foods, but I’ve got dinner out with some friends on Thursday and then the three of us will be satisfying my craving for Chinese food on Friday’s dinner.  Hopefully inspiration for Saturday’s dinner will hit at some point between now and Saturday…

And then, finally, it will be back to normal with eating at home every day!  The trip was good, but being home is always better. 

The big excitement that this week holds is Cow Day on Friday.  We'll be picking up our half cow and I can't wait!

1. Nacho Beef Skillet
2. Chicken Sancoche
3. Skillet Carbonara Casserole
4. Oven-Fried Coconut Chicken and Rice w/ broccoli We ate out instead due to the upcoming trip.

A four-day week? What is this madness? Well, you see, I’m going away for TWELVE DAYS. I still haven’t really wrapped my brain around this fact but it’s true and I leave, with Lance, for points west on Thursday. Hopefully I’ll have some good restaurant articles for Indianapolis, IN and Columbus, OH to post when I return!

I’ve stocked the freezer with delicious leftovers for Art, so I hope he won’t have to resort to ordering pizza while I’m gone. He’s got tetrazzini, lasagna, and quiche to sate his appetite.

Since I’m going to be pretty busy between now and Thursday I’ve opted for some tried and true recipes that I haven’t made in a while to keep things easy. I’m also planning on baking some cookies, making some fudge, and baking some zucchini bread, so I’ll be busy in the kitchen.

I’m also going to do my best to catch up on all the blogging I still need to do so that I don’t have a backlog waiting for me when I get back home.

Happy eating :)