This week’s menu has a lot a variety. The pulled pork was cooked in the red wine sauce from last week’s menu (gotta love leftovers!). You can again download the menu with the links below.
Fireside Dinner Menu # 26
Fireside Dinner Menu # 25
A few more dinner ideas. A lot of favourites but if you try nothing else, please try the bacon pasta. It is the perfect sauce, it’s pretty and it is super easy as well.
The red wine sauce for the fillet also comes together beautifully and will impress anyone with minimal effort.
You can download the full menu with the recipe links here:
Fireside Dinner Menu # 24
This week’s menu has a lot of happy moments but my personal favourite was the paprika potatoes. You have to try them – I think you will want to braai them with everything.
My cornbread crust did not come out quite crusty enough, so please let me know if you managed to make it look like in the pic of the website!
The sliders came out beautifully as well, I did however assemble them and then baked them in the oven for a while as well. The slow cooker is your friend for the pulled chicken!
You can again download the menu with the links here:
The little things are important too
This morning, one of my beautiful friends shared a post on Facebook that caught my eye. You can read the whole post here, but, in essence, it encourages us all to acknowledge the fact that sometimes, we are trying to do too much. And we do not give ourselves and others credit for just… surviving.
The small hours found me awake this morning because my Labrador had insisted on going outside. Coming back to bed my brain was responsible for not being able to go back to sleep. I thought about all the little things that are currently challenging me. And one of these are that I feel that I am not doing enough. So my question is: why do we always want to do more? Is it comparison? The whole social media dilemma where we compare our own situations with the little glimpses we see of other’s lives.
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I may or may not have mentioned before that these menu’s are not “real time” in that I only started posting these a while after I started logging our meals and recipes. Sometimes, therefore, you will get 7 unique meals but it would not always be Monday to Sunday. Sometimes I skip the confession that we had yet another takeaway or that we had cake for dinner (and with we I mean me) or that dinner involved something from a box that you could stick in the oven.
As I then type these up I am often reminded of a special meal or lovely company or something that did not come out as I intended it to. These recipes are therefore not only recipes but also little moments in time. And that my friends, is why I eat too much!
This week is also the week of the tray bakes. In essence it just means it is something that you spread out and stick in the oven. Gotta love it!
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