Monday’s Menu – February 25

For lunches this week, I’ll do turkey, ham and cheese, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  I’ll also eat leftovers from dinner.
Dinners for this week:

Cheeseburger rolls
Spaghetti
Salmon
Chicken fajitas
Chicken noodle soup

 

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Sewing Saturday – February 23

Out of the ten patterns that I purchased for $1 each at JoAnn Fabrics, here is the first one that I made.  It’s Simplicity 3887.

I chose a blue jersey fabric to make the white, short-sleaved shirt on the pattern above.
 

Here is where I’m laying out most of the pattern pieces.  I also needed to refold [...]

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Frugal Friday – Simplicity Patterns

Last weekend, I took advantage of the President’s Day sale at JoAnn Fabrics.  Normally,  Simplicity patterns sell for about $16 each.  JoAnn’s was selling them 5 for $5 with a limit of ten patterns.
It was all I could do to hold off for the two weeks I had been waiting for the sale.  I even [...]

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Cooking Up A Storm

I knew this week was going to be a busy one. Since I knew I wouldn’t have time to cook on Wednesday or Thursday, I decided to do several days worth of cooking on Tuesday. Here’s a picture of my efforts.

As you can see, things got a bit crowded. It [...]

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Monday’s Menu – February 18

I made my menu and did my grocery shopping last weekend, although I’m just now getting it posted on the site.

Menu Plan for the week of February 18:

Main Courses –

Pasta with marinara sauce and turkey sausage
Sauteed shrimp
Leftover lentil soup

Side Items –

Caramelized onions and mushrooms
Oven roasted red peppers stuffed with tomatoes, garlic, spices, and [...]

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Veil of Roses

I would like to share a favorite book of mine with you.  Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald is a lovely novel.  It focuses on Tamila, a young woman who grew up in Iran.  She travels to America to stay with her sister.  The goal:  find a Persian-American (Iran-American) husband via an arranged marriage, before [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – February 11

Last week, I did most of my cooking over the weekend or at the beginning of the workweek.  Once Wednesday rolled around, I didn’t do any more cooking!  I was quite tired and ready to eat sandwiches or leftovers.
Looking in my pantry, freezer, and fridge Saturday morning, I found a half jar of marinara sauce, [...]

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Steve and Me

I finished Steve and Me by Terri Irwin this week.  It was such a wonderful read that I couldn’t put it down.  Within 24 hours (over two days), I had finished the book.
 
This is a memoir of Terri Irwin’s life as the wife of the late Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin.  The book briefly highlights on [...]

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Sewing Saturday – February 9

 
This past week, I completed sewing two pairs of ladies boxer shorts.  They’re absolutely adorable!  
 
In regards to knitting, I used leftover yarn to make a matching scarf for my pink hat.  I didn’t have much yarn left, so the scarf is quite short.  I put it around my neck and overlap the two ends. [...]

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Frugal Friday – Patiently Waiting for Sales

 
I’ve been wanting to purchase some new clothing patterns.  I’ll go to a fabric store, examine patterns, decide to procrastinate, and leave.
This week, I walked into JoAnn Fabrics, finally committed to a pattern, walked to the counter, had my coupon and wallet in hand, and hit a roadblock.  I was told that my 40% off [...]

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Allah’s Fire

I just finished reading Allah’s Fire by Chuck Holton and Gayle Roper.  This inspirational novel focuses on a Special Ops soldier and an American reporter in Lebanon.
John, the soldier, works with his team to locate and shut down the manufacturers of an undetectable type of explosive that was used to bomb a hotel in Beirut.  Liz, [...]

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Lentil Soup

I made the Lentil Soup Sunday night as I was making the Spaghetti with Turkey Sausage.  It contains 1 can of Spam (I had two cans on my shelf that I needed to use, so I used one for this recipe), 1 onion, 2 cups lentils, 1 tsp minced garlic, chopped celery, 5 cups hot water, [...]

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