aKathy's What's for Dinner 6/10

Happy Monday everyone!
I am slow roasting beef,potatoes and carrots for dinner and fixing parmesan noodles later to add to the meal.
Later in the week my oldest grandson is coming to stay a few days with us.
Still working outside in the yard and the outside area cleaning hopefully will get it done this week.

breakfast for dinner here - Make Your Own omelet (cheese, tomato, onion, pepper options), hash brownes, breakfast sausage

Good morning everyone! Hope everyone is doing well...I try to keep up most days even though I haven't been posting. Sending love and comfort to those who need it.

It's chilly today, but we've had great weather recently...happy to be outside taking care of plants and flowers, pmaying with pups and reading in the fresh air. Off til my next class starts the first week of July and loving it. I'm reading about a book every day and have joined 2 book clubs. I have been SO ready for this break.

Tacos for dinner today! I have a pork roast in the crockpot with pineapple and spices for Al Pastor and some ground turkey defrosting for what I call "white girl tacos". I grew up eating tacos but never knew most authentic tacos did not use ground beef and pork. Nick is not a fan so we have grilled shrimp tacos, a great chicken recipe I got from a friend, arrachera, and carnitas. But I still have a soft spot for ground meat in tacos. I like pork or beef but often sub ground turkey to make it more healthy. I'll make a Sriracha slaw and pick up some pico de gallo...we like the tropical one with mango and pineapple but the regular one is fine if that's all they have. And sour cream and cilantro.

I had the weirdest most delicious fusion sort of tacos at a restaurant that has since closed, so now I have recreated it at home. Flour tortillas, grilled shrimp, spicy slaw, tropical pico/pineapple salsa, and Thai peanut sauce (?!?!?!?). Crazy, but it is freaking delicious! Need to put that in the plan soon. When we go camping I get the premade skewers of shrimp and throw the on the grill...so easy. At home I will do it myself with my own seasoning. But aldis citrus shrimp skewers are good and simple for camping.

What kind of tacos do you like? Toppings?

Happy Monday!

Wow, the weekend went by entirely too fast. I've got a slow week at work but I'm working on social posting which I like.

Dinner tonight will be a chicken casserole because I have chicken to use up. I put in my grocery order for the week this morning so I'll be picking that up at lunch time. The pandemic was a nightmare but I sure like the things that came out of it like grocery and wine pickup. I never have to go into the store and can easily come up with $35 worth of groceries to make it free.

Hope you all have a great day!

It's sunny here but the high is 69 for today. The past two days we've had like a high of 72. In my mind, that is about as perfect as summer weather can get. I love it.

Good evening.
Today has been fairly quiet here. I messaged DS this morning to check with him the suggestion he gave me at Easter for Lucia’s birthday present. Thankfully, it’s still on, so I didn’t need plan B. Like Sophia, she will be starting dance classes in July, so I said I’d pay for the first 6 months. Otherwise , I’d have been calling DS2 and getting him to buy something to give her from me.
Of course, after I messaged, I got a video call from Sophia, who told me all about her day off today (it’s King’s Birthday in their state today) - she wasn’t impressed as they just stayed home and cleaned up and did laundry! She also told me she had done most of the cooking for dinner, which was chickpea soup. Lucia then entertained me by making the sounds of all the animals they saw at the zoo yesterday.

This afternoon my hedge trimmer man came, so now the front of the yard looks lovely. He said when he comes back in October, he’ll trim it into shape for winter, so the snow won’t damage it as much.

DH is out for dinner with a group of colleagues visiting from all over, so I am going to have rechauffe of the chicken casserole we had last night.

I'm with jeremysgirl , 72 is perfect weather.  The humidity is coming back this week, so I will enjoy the couple more days of no AC and nice nights.

Dinner is meatball subs that I had simmering yesterday so they should be yummy.  I even made my own sauce...minus using canned tomatoes instead of fresh.

New wall for shower has a date of June 28th...I guess we will work on everything else that we need to before it gets here and that should be one of the last things we need to do.  
SO's uncle is coming over tonight to help him look at what needs to be done to redirect the tub plumbing to bring that up to code and move the vanity plumbing over to fit the new vanity.
Then we can start drywalling the walls.  
We have the ceiling done, but a miscalculation on the fan height has us needing to take down one sheet, drop down the fan, then put it back up. It's this kind of fun that makes home reno FUN! 

Oh, what I like, I am a basic girl, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, and sour cream on my soft flour tortilla.
I do make "real" taco meat from chuck roast that I also enjoy, but ground beef is my go to.

You do! I'm in the perfect spot! This girl will never move down south. LOL!

Went into the city this morning. DH wanted to fill up on gas for his road trip later this week. I bought an insulated water bottle for myself and my bestie to take on our cruise. I looked online because I wanted to personalize them with our names but the shipping was almost as much as the tumblers. I’m going to try and find someone local who has a laser printer to put our names on them.

We grabbed some groceries and are now home for the rest of the day.

Winter has returned here. It’s 10 degrees and cloudy. I had to wear pants today for the first time in months.

Supper will be leftover pulled pork fries for me and Hamnurger Helper for DH.

It'll be alright if I get this job. I can do it. There will be a learning curve but I'm not thinking this one will challenge me much.

Happy Monday.

I am making chicken spaghetti for the new parents tonight. I am going to have a cauliflower pizza. My dh is out of town so simple dinner is whats what!!

I got to soak up a lot of baby snugs over the weekend. He is just the best!! 

I am working around the house and office today. I think I have most of my office work done except for checking the mail.

My favorite is fish tacos tmarschall. I get those every time at a restaurant here in town. They have some kind of spicy aioli on them and I LOVE it!! When at home I make a version of your white girl tacos!!  Just ground meat, lettuce, cheese, sour cream and hot sauce. YUM!!! I think I need to make tacos this week!!

scrapmaven have fun at your lesson!! 

jeremysgirl sending good interview vibes to you!!

I like fish tacos too...fried cod, frilled whitefish, whatever. I enjoy the aioli or whatever that is too. I have had bad tacos but not very often. What's not to like? There's a taco for everybody!

Good luck with your interview jeremysgirl !

I love tacos ! There's not a taco that I've had that I don't like. My favorite are ground beef and chicken tacos with tomato, onions, avocado and hot sauce.

Hubby and I are celebrating our anniversary today so after I got off work we went out for dinner. We had Chicken Parmigiana with spaghetti and a salad. It was delicious !

I don’t think I’ve ever had tamales! I don’t eat a lot of Mexican food. Our Tex Mex offerings here are pretty ordinary.

I had a lovely Monday. It was the King’s Birthday long weekend. DDO and DS went to the football, and I had the house to myself from 10am until 7pm. Heaven! I watched a lot of TV, did a lot of scrapping, and threw in a bit of housework.

For dinner I made corned beef in the slow cooker. I’ve never made it before, because DSO hates it. The only time I get to eat it is once in a blue moon when MIL cooked it for me. My dad used to make it for us often.