Week 39 Menu and Quick Salsa Recipe

Happy Monday everyone! I thought I'd share my favorite, quick salsa recipe today after I post my menu for this week. So stay tuned...

Here's my menu for the week:

Monday: BBQ Meatballs (from Pioneer Woman Cooks) and mashed potatoes

Tuesday: Chicken Noodle Casserole

Wednesday: Turkey Sloppy Joes and Oven Fries

Thursday: Breakfast for dinner

Friday: Parmesan Chicken & Baked Potatoes (still haven't made this, maybe the third time on the menu is the charm)

Saturday: Easy Night

Sunday: Roast

All right. Don't forget to post your menus! Now on to the salsa recipe...

Quick Salsa
adapted from the Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook

1 - 14 1/2 ounce can tomatoes with Mexican seasoning
2 ounces diced green chilies (I use half a 4 ounce can and freeze the other half for later)
1 or 2 thinly sliced green onions
chopped cilantro, as much as you like (I use about 1 T.)
1 T. lemon juice
1 clove minced garlic
salt and pepper to taste

Drain tomatoes, reserving a little bit of liquid (if you like thicker salsa don't add the liquid). Cut up tomatoes or break them up with your clean hands. Add all ingredients into a bowl (or a blender) and lightly mix with immersion blender. Cover and chill.

This makes about 1 1/2 cups of salsa. I double the recipe if we're having other people over. But I make this smaller recipe for my family to snack on so it stays fresh.

Have a good week! Coming soon is my recipe for 1 hour breadsticks!

One Hour Rolls

These rolls are amazing! I've been making these rolls since 2001 when I was a newlywed and my sister-in-law shared the recipe with me. The rolls are light, fluffy, easy to make and they only take one hour! And delicious too! I've made these rolls more times than I can count, so I've perfected the art of making them. Here are some step-by-step instructions with pictures for you. Here's what you'll need. I buy pretty much all of the ingredients in this recipe at Sam's club, thus the huge containers. You need warm water, yeast, oil, sugar, salt, egg and flour. In the mixer bowl, add warm water (not hot), oil, sugar and yeast. Mix together. After ten or fifteen minutes the yeast mixture should be puffed up like this. Time to add the salt and beaten egg. Then mix in the flour. (I've used a mixture of half wheat and half white flour successfully.) Keep adding flour until the dough is manageable. It will be a little sticky, b

Week 394 Menu

Hi there! This week is flying by! So excited that we've been having blue skies and warmer weather. Our snow is almost all melted and little bulbs are sprouting in the flower beds. However, we had our 10th snow/ice day last week!!! Hopefully it was the last one. Life has been busy, busy and I need to plan out the rest of our week's menus, even though it's already Thursday. Here's what we've eaten so far and what I'm planning: Monday: chicken stirfry, rice/quinoa Tuesday: breakfast for dinner Wednesday: flatbread pizzas Thursday: roasted butternut squash, pasta, chicken sausage Friday: tacos Saturday: leftovers Sunday: pot roast, mashed potatoes, one hour rolls Alrighty, that's what we're eating this week. How about you? What's on your menu this week? Feel free to share. I love it when you do! More from Jenny:

Don't like your house to smell like food? I've got a kitchen tip for that!

I have a smallish, one story house and if I cook food that is kind of smelly, like onions, the smell tends to linger in every room. This is a pet peeve of mine and (also my husband's). Over the years I've found a few ways to cook smelly food without smelling up the kitchen. Use your garage! I use my garage quite often to cook things in. I open the window and it airs out, especially when you open the garage door. I'm sure my neighbors wonder what I'm cooking. I've used two different kitchen appliances in the garage: my crockpot and my food dehydrator. Crockpot - I did this very thing today since I'm simmering chicken, onions, carrots and celery to make chicken noodle soup tonight. I don't want my house to smell like onions all day, so I plugged it in on my husband's workbench. Food dehydrator - when I make jerky, I plug the food dehydrator in in the garage. I don't really want my house to smell like meat for hours

What is on your menu this week?

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