Menu Plan Monday
In case you haven't read my update, please accept my apologies about the way the blog looks. I'm working on migrating all my hosted photos so I can go through and change all the links so there are no longer spam notices and broken image links all over the blog

I'm almost finished with my sample and pattern for the magazine, and then I have a few last minute edits on the pattern I received from my tech editor this month before I can get it out to my preview knitters. There is a shawl I am close to finishing, that I'd love to have ready at the end of this month. Then, I need to help Dominic get ready for his college entrance exams so he can do his AA here while he finishes high school, like Alexander has. It's a busy time for us, and Rich is also doing his own studies and work that is taking his own time now, plus Amira's recovery. We could use your prayers. Thank you for your continued support.

We're still using up the zucchini, and found that they work nicely in my scalloped potato recipe. Also, we now have tons of red potatoes from our gleaning club. We are so grateful for this group. We can serve our community and feed our family and friends.

• Sunday
  Breakfast: Tomato and Zucchini Scramble with Cheese, Toast, Bananas, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Ham, Scalloped Potatoes and Zucchini, Salad
• Monday - Feast of Saint Joseph of Arimithea
  Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs, Toast, Bananas, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Mahshi (using Zucchini), Rice, Salad with Lemon and Za'atar Dressing
• Tuesday - Feast of the Seven Holy Maccabean Brothers, their Mother, Salomone, and their Teacher Eleazer
  Breakfast: Oatmeal with Chopped Apples and Cinnamon Sugar, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Ham and Hutterite Beans, Cornbread, Salad
• Wednesday
  Breakfast: Slow Cooker Rice Pudding with Coconut, Fruit, Tea with Honey
  Dinner: Potage Parmentier, Sourdough French Bread
• Thursday
  Breakfast: Mexican Breakfast Casserole, Corn Tortillas, Fruit Plate, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Eggs in Purgatory, Garlic Zucchini Pasta with Pepperoni
• Friday - Feast of Saint Dominic
  Breakfast: Tunisian Shakshouka, Toast, Sliced Apples, Tea with Honey
  Dinner: Falafel, Khoubz Araby (Pita Bread), Harissa, Vegetables and Olives
• Saturday
  Breakfast: Pancakes with Maple Syrup, Bacon, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Frita Cubana, Onion Rings, Cool and Creamy Potato and Pea Salad, Cole Slaw, Homemade Samoas

What is on your menu this week? If you want a recipe, ask and I will provide it as soon as I can. If there are any starred recipes, I will follow up separately with a weekly recipe round up on Saturday.

Labels: Church Year, Family, Homemaking, Menu Plans, Name Day, Tales from the Kitchen

Menu Plan Monday
In case you haven't read my update, please accept my apologies about the way the blog looks. I'm working on migrating all my hosted photos so I can go through and change all the links so there are no longer spam notices and broken image links all over the blog

Actually, I haven't had much time to do any of that this past week, and don't foresee a lot of time this week, either. I have a pretty tight deadline on a design for a UK magazine coming up, which I am working on in almost every moment that I am not taking care of Amira, who had her tonsils taken out on Friday. She's doing alright, but is just in a lot of pain. Please pray for her recovery.

We have a ton of zucchini from a glean, so we're making batches and batches of zucchini bread and muffins for our freezer and to eat, plus eating it in just about every meal. Amira is still on a fruit gelatin, stock, juice, and tea diet, but we're hoping that she can move to mashed potatoes and bananas and things like that Sunday or Monday (she'll eat the gravy, regardless, and maybe some mashed potatoes). Last week, besides knitting like a fiend, I made gallons and gallons of beef stock and chicken stock and lamb stock and turkey stock. I also made two 9" X 11" pans of fruit gelatin. We're giving her colostrum powder in her food/drinks to help her immune system heal her body as well.

My birthday is also this week, though it will be more subdued. However, I have a 41% off sale on all patterns sold in my Ravelry store with the coupon code overthehill. It begins midnight of July 24 (Sunday night!) and ends at 11:59 PM PDT on July 28. Come celebrate my birthday with me!

• Sunday
  Breakfast: Fried Egg and Cheese Sandwiches, Bananas, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Chicken with Gravy and Dressing, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Zucchini
• Monday
  Breakfast: Oatmeal with Chopped Apples and Cinnamon Sugar, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Oxtail Soup, Garlic Mashed Potatoes
• Tuesday - Feast of Saint James
  Breakfast: Lemon-Zucchini Bread, Applesauce, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Chicken with Poblano-Lime Cream, "Mexican" Rice Pilaf, Black Bean and Corn Salad (with Diced Zucchini)
• Wednesday - Feast of Saint Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  Breakfast: Ful, Chopped Tomatoes, Onions, and Green Chiles, Toast, Tea with Honey
  Dinner: Potage Parmentier, Sourdough French Bread
• Thursday
  Breakfast: Slow Cooker Rice Pudding with Coconut, Fruit, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Spicy Italian Sandwiches with Roasted Veggies, Coleslaw, Fruit Plate
• Friday
  Breakfast: Tunisian Shakshouka (using sweet potatoes), Toast, Sliced Apples, Tea with Honey
  Dinner: Eggs in Purgatory, Garlic Zucchini Pasta
• Saturday - Feast of Saints Mary and Martha
  Breakfast: Pancakes with Maple Syrup, Bacon, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Mahshi (using Zucchini), Rice, Salad with Lemon and Za'atar Dressing

What is on your menu this week? If you want a recipe, ask and I will provide it as soon as I can. If there are any starred recipes, I will follow up separately with a weekly recipe round up on Saturday.

Labels: Birthday, Church Year, Design, Family, Homemaking, Knitting, Menu Plans, Prayer Requests, Tales from the Kitchen

Menu Plan Monday
I'm still busy trying to migrate my photos and find a way to post them here again. Thank you for your patience while I sort this out. It's one of many things on my to do list this week (and month), as I have a few deadlines for designs and other tasks associated with being a knitwear designer that are looming, along with normal homemaking and parenting and family activities. It may sound awful, but I'm glad that we don't have school or ballet or baseball or driver's ed or any of that going on right now.

In case you haven't read my update, please accept my apologies about the way the blog looks. I'm working on migrating all my hosted photos so I can go through and change all the links so there are no longer ransom notes all over my blog.

• Sunday
  Breakfast: Toasted Crumpets, Fried Eggs, Bacon, Grilled Tomatoes, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Antipasta Salad, Brownies
• Monday
  Breakfast: Fried Eggs, Toast, Sliced Apples, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Baked Rigatoni with The Best Meat Sauce Ever, Salad, Garlic Asiago Bread
• Tuesday
  Breakfast: Yogurt and Jam, Buttered Toast, Fruit, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Spicy Italian Sandwiches, Cole Slaw, Pickles
• Wednesday
  Breakfast: Ful, Chopped Tomatoes, Onions, and Green Chiles, Toast, Tea with Honey
  Dinner: Falafel, Khoubz Araby (Pita Bread), Harissa, Vegetables and Olives
• Thursday - Feast of Saint Elijah the Prophet
  Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs with Cheese, Toasted Crumpets, Fruit, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Chicken with Poblano-Lime Cream, "Mexican" Rice Pilaf, Black Bean and Corn Salad
• Friday
  Breakfast: Peanut Butter Toast with Honey, Sliced Apples, Tea with Honey
  Dinner: Eggs in Purgatory, Garlic Pasta, Salad
• Saturday - Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene, Equal to the Apostles
  Breakfast: Slow Cooker Rice Pudding with Coconut, Fruit, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Oxtail Soup, Garlic Mashed Potatoes

What is on your menu this week? If you want a recipe, ask and I will provide it as soon as I can. If there are any starred recipes, I will follow up separately with a weekly recipe round up on Saturday.

Labels: Church Year, Family, Homemaking, Menu Plans, Tales from the Kitchen

Menu Plan Monday
Our family went on our first blueberry picking trip this weekend, and strawberries were on sale at the store, plus our wild black caps are finally producing more than the birds can steal, so we're making some berry dishes this week. Rich helped me reorganize our chest freezer (he's working on our stand up freezer next), and we found a ham that needed to be cooked right away, so we are cooking and eating ham this week, too. It isn't as hot this week as it was last week, so we're doing more baking.

Also, this Saturday is the 23rd anniversary of Rich and my first meeting. So, we're celebrating that. Our kids celebrate it, too, because regardless of what they think about our romance, they wouldn't exist had we not met. It's a pretty significant date for them, too.

In case you haven't read my update, please accept my apologies about the way the blog looks. I'm working on migrating all my hosted photos so I can go through and change all the links so there are no longer ransom notes all over my blog.

• Sunday
  Breakfast: Scramble with Seasoned Beef, Potatoes, Tomatoes and Cheese, Toast, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Saucy Sour Cream Meatballs with Green Beans and Penne, Deconstructed, Salad with Mustard Vinaigrette, Blueberry Cream Trifle
• Monday
  Breakfast: Peanut Butter Toast, Sliced Apples, Cherry Chocolate Granola Bars, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Ham, Cold Roasted Asparagus, Biscuits, Salad, Mixed Berry Shortcake
• Tuesday - Feast of Saint Benedict of Nursia
  Breakfast: Maple Yogurt, Toast, Sliced Apples, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Cashew Chicken with Peppers and Scallions, Rice, Fruit Plate
• Wednesday
  Breakfast: Peanut Butter Toast with Honey, Sliced Apples, Tea with Honey
  Dinner: Vegetarian Ranchero Beans, Green Chile Rice
• Thursday
  Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs with Cheese, Toast, Bacon, Fruit Plate, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Ham, Potato, Cabbage and Onion Hash, Fruit Plate
• Friday - Feast of Saint Bonaventure
  Breakfast: Ful, Chopped Tomatoes, Onions, and Green Chiles, Toast, Tea with Honey
  Dinner: Lentil and Kale Whole Wheat Pockets, Salad, Fruit Plate
• Saturday
  Breakfast: Sausage and Egg Breakfast Casserole, Fruit, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Baked Rigatoni with The Best Meat Sauce Ever, Salad, Garlic Bread

What is on your menu this week? If you want a recipe, ask and I will provide it as soon as I can. If there are any starred recipes, I will follow up separately with a weekly recipe round up on Saturday.

Labels: Church Year, Family, Homemaking, Menu Plans, Romance and Relationship, St. Benedict, Tales from the Kitchen

I had a whole Independence Day yarn along to post, as well as other things, but the whole photobucket extortion and spam business has put the kibbosh on that. Until I can migrate all of my photos elsewhere, and then go through and change all the links on the blog, I'm just not going to have the time to blog much.

They want $400 a year to be able to post a link to my photos here. There is no tiered pricing option to permit smaller blogs/websites like mine to continue. They announced the change to the terms of service just before the holiday weekend, and then enacted it almost immediately, holding all bloggers', Amazon or e-Bay sellers', or help forum posters' pictures hostage, essentially. The only way we have access to publishing our photos is to cough up the $400. Per year. When they already have a website that was getting harder and harder to use and tons of advertising all over it. I'm not willing to pay that much, though I would be willing to pay a smaller amount. However, since I didn't even have time to absorb the information before they started spamming my own blog (rather than simply putting up something that said photo unavailable, or better, to permit the photos that had been loaded when the policy was to allow linking to stay and simply not permit new photos to be linked), I'm not in a place to think about that a lot right now. I have used .6 GB of my 2 GB allotment on their site. I am a fairly small time, low traffic blogger, so I don't think I'm using enough bandwidth to justify $400 a year, and they are neither budging on their change or answering anyone's concerns or questions. In fact, on their website, the contact us link is broken. Oh, and I checked through my e-mail and spam files, I received no notice of the change except for what I read online and seeing my photos changed to spam.

Please accept my apologies for how the blog looks and the upcoming silence. You can follow me on Instagram or on my (also low traffic) Arabian Knits Facebook Page, join the conversations on my Ravelry Group, or subscribe to 1,001 Knits, my monthly newsletter. Thank you for your understanding and support.

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Last week was VBS and I underestimated how much the jet lag would affect me. We have another birthday this week, Yasmina turns nine. If it hadn't been for scheduling c-sections, she might have been born on Independence Day. However, this is our first week of summer without any school, ballet, VBS, or anything else. I'm thrilled! We might actually get some sleep.

We have a ton of cherries and asparagus this week, and since we aren't running around all week, we might even be able to make some pickled asparagus. We're having two pasta dishes two days in a row, but nobody at my house is troubled by this.

• Sunday
  Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs with Cheese, Toast, Cherries, Milky Tea
  Dinner: Church Supper
• Monday
  Breakfast: Oatmeal with Brown Sugar and Raisins, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Chicken Fried Steak with Cream Gravy, Biscuits, Steam Sauteed Asparagus, French Coconut Pie with Dark Chocolate
• Tuesday
  Breakfast: Sausage and Egg Breakfast Casserole, Fruit, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Grilled Hot Dogs, Grilled Asparagus, Tater Tots, Ice Cream
• Wednesday
  Breakfast: Ful, Chopped Tomatoes, Onions, and Green Chiles, Toast, Tea with Honey
  Dinner: Pesto and Ricotta Baked Pasta, Salad
• Thursday
  Breakfast: Creamed Eggs, Toast Fingers, Bacon, Milk and Coffee
  Dinner: Greek Macaroni and Cheese, Roasted Asparagus
• Friday
  Breakfast: Peanut Butter Toast with Honey, Sliced Apples, Tea with Honey
  Dinner: Vegetarian Ranchero Beans, Roasted Tomato Salsa Rice
• Saturday
  Breakfast: Chocolate Chip Pancakes with Whipped Cream, Bacon, Hot Cocoa and Coffee
  Dinner: Potage Parmentier (Potato Leek Soup), Rolls, Chocolate Cake with Powdered Sugar and Chantilly Cream

What is on your menu this week? If you want a recipe, ask and I will provide it as soon as I can. If there are any starred recipes, I will follow up separately with a weekly recipe round up on Saturday.

Labels: Birthday, Family, Homemaking, Menu Plans, Tales from the Kitchen