How long has it been since I did one of these? Oh about 8 months. Yeah I'm slacking, but honestly Sunday has become my lazy day. It's also contradictorily my crazy busy errand day. So here we go... Highlight
J and I visited an awesome brewery Peace Tree in Knoxville, Iowa. J had some in the fridge from the last visit there. And man was it yummy! It's even better on tap. I had the Red Rambler (awesome red ale) and the Blonde Fatale. J had the Imperial Stout and the triple IPA. All amazing! We had to get some to take home. So of course, we filled the trunk with a growler of the Rye Stout and a case of the IPA. Now we have a fridge full of beer...
Lowlight
The reason we were in Iowa is my weekly lowlight. We drove the boys to the Mississippi to let my mom pick them up and take them back to Indiana and their dad's house. I won't see them until Thanksgiving. Sad day... but hopefully they adjust well to the new situation.
New Feature -- Meals a la Tobe
In my new place, J and I have made the commitment to cook at home more often. So I thought it would be easily to make a weekly meal plan. Two weeks down and it seems to be working. I'm determined to plan ahead, shop ahead, and eat all the leftovers. Hopefully this saves us money and time. While tooling around the internet, I found a great blog featuring weekly meal plans, This Week for Dinner. Using some of her recipes and plans, here's my upcoming meal plan:
- Sunday -- Frozen shrimp and linguine meal (I was being kind of lazy)
- Monday -- Pork chops, green beans, rice, rolls
- Tuesday -- Leftovers/out
- Wednesday -- Orange chicken, rice, carrots
- Thursday -- Tacos
- Friday -- Leftover/out
- Saturday -- Salmon, black bean and corn salsa, salad, rolls
- On the way home from the grocery store, The Postal Service's "Such Great Heights" came on the radio. Awesome!
- I had to stop on the highway to let 4 wild turkeys cross. Craziness!
