Oven Parmesan Chips

This recipe is adapted from a Weight Watchers recipe.

1 baking potato
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 tablespoons Parmesan cheese (I use stuff in green container)
3 tablespoons minced chives (optional)
salt to taste
Cooking spray

Preheat oven to 400.

Clean potato and cut into very thin slices (using mandolin helps). Combine slices with oil in large bowl. Add cheese, chives, and salt and toss to combined.

Place potato slices on single layer on baking sheet that has been coated with cooking spray. Bake at 400 degrees for about 18 minutes or until golden brown.

Enjoy!

Menu Plan Monday 7/13/09

I only did one shopping trip last week to get some basic items we needed. The majority of ingredients for this week's menu were already in the house. I bought a double paper today for the coupons, but I don't plan on shopping this week. My husband has generously "shared" his chest cold with me, so I am looking for quick fix meals this week.

Breakfasts
cereal/milk
fruit
toast
granola bars
instant oatmeal

Lunches
Sandwiches
chips
salad
carrot sticks
leftovers
mac and cheese

Dinners
French toast, bacon, fruit, juice
Homemade Pizza
Elbows and Ground Beef, salad, bread
Chicken Stew with Rice, steamed veggie
The Pioneer Woman's Most Favorite Burgers, oven potato chips
Pulled pork sandwiches, corn on the cob
Leftover night

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Have a great week!

Enjoy!

Quilt Block

I took a break from my Lightning Strikes quilt to put together this quilt block. The name of this block is Contrary Wife. The pattern can be found at Quilter's Cache. It is an easy and fun block to put together. I think you could make an entire quilt with these blocks in just a few days! The blocks make an interesting secondary pattern when they are joined.

Here is how a whole quilt would look:


Contrary Wife is the block my sewing group is considering using for next year's charity/auction quilt. Our quilt from this year raised over $800 for the church youth group!

Check out Quilter's Cache. There are lots of FREE quilt block patterns.

Life As Mom has more savings information at Frugal Fridays.

Quilt Update

Just a quick update on the progress of my Lightning Strikes quilt since my last post. It really is a fun quilt to make. It is fascinating to watch the pattern emerge as you put more rows on the quilt. I am not quite half way done with adding rows. The picture above is from my last post.

Below is where the quilt is now.

Work in Progress

Here are pictures of our latest home improvement project. Our kitchen cabinets badly need to be painted. The baked on white enamel finish was beautiful when the cabinets were new, but now they are dingy and the painted is coming off in high use areas. Additionally, I can no longer get them clean with scrubbing. The finish is almost gummy! What is with that? This picture doesn't look bad, but...


up close you can see what I am talking about...

So, we took all the cabinet doors and drawers off and we are sanding and painting them all.
Also, we are replacing the brass pulls with brushed nickel, more contemporary pulls. We also are spray painting the hinges with a brushed nickel paint.


Here is a picture of the new pulls on one drawer. Check back to see the finished project.

Menu Plan Monday 7/6/09

I only have three more weeks before returning to work and a lot of projects to get done. This week we will be having quick meals, meals in the crock pot and from the freezer. I will also be continuing to use items from my stockpile. I really don't have any plans to go to any grocery store. We will see if I can refrain from having to get the deals!

Here is the plan for the week:

Breakfasts
Cereal/milk
bagels/cream cheese
Homemade Blueberry Muffins

Lunches
Leftovers
Sandwiches

Dinners
Spaghetti/Noodles
Popcorn Chicken Salad
Homemade Pizza
Homemade Pigs in a Blanket
Apricot Pork Chops in Crock pot
Italian Meatballs in crock pot with chili sauce/grape jelly
Leftovers

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