Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Homemaker In Training Thursday - Quick & Easy Dinners

Homemaker In Training Thursday - Quick & Easy Dinners

Miss Eyebright at Defective Compositions does a lovely little meme called Homemakers In Training Thursday.

Quick and Easy Dinners - Dinners for the rush hour

Salads - I love salads! Salads are a great lunch. I like putting sunflower seeds, cheese and cottage cheese on my salad. Bacon and croutons are good also for salads. Vinegar and oil and ranch dressing are what we usually eat on salads. I like mixing garlic and minced onions up in the vinegar and oil, along with some herbs to make a vinaigrette. Salads are a great green for lunch or dinner.

Noodles With Sauce - You can boil some water and throw in a package of noodles. Then just add some cheese, cream cheese, and sour cream and you have a wonderful meal. You can also cook some hamburger or cut up chicken to put on top of it. If you have parmesan cheese on hand, you can add that right after you serve it to a plate.

Hamburgers - Hamburgers are so easy to make, even little kids could help. We usually eat potatoes with hamburgers, but chips are ok, and maybe a can of pork-n-beans. Add a couple of raw carrot sticks to it, and you have a quick and easy dinner.

Fun Hotdogs - Instead of just making plain hotdogs for the kids, cut the hotdogs in half (not lengthwise) Then you can make hotdog butterflies by cutting a slit at one end and fixing the dough (for cows in a blanket) in the shape of little wings. Top it off with pickles, cheese, carrot sticks, chips and maybe some pork-n-beans.

Sandwiches - You can really make any kind of sandwich you want - turkey, pb&j, baloni, cheese. Sandwiches are a great meal. Grilled cheese are easy to make. Pb&j are easy-peasy. You can put like a vinaigrette on the piece of bread and tomatoes, onions, lettuce, and then the turkey and cheese.

Miss Eyebright said in her post -

Quick and Easy is a popular theme these days, and so you can find these kinds of recipes all over the Internet.  If none of these links or ideas catches your fancy, just search the Internet yourself, and you are sure to find something.Another thing you can do to make dinners a little faster for bad days, is to have some hamburger or whatever else, already cooked.  That way, you just have to heat the meat in the microwave.  Yet another idea is part of menu planning.  Plan quick and easy meals for some days, so that if something unexpected pops up, you can quickly change from making a refined dinner, to something fast.
However busy you may become, and however often you begin to use your quick and easy recipes, don’t forget the simple and beautiful pleasure of a carefully planned family dinner.  Know which days are your busy days, and which are your relaxed days, so that you can make it a priority to have a planned dinner on one of those relaxed days.  Sunday is a wonderful day on which to do this, especially if you invite someone over.

You can come up with a lot of different meals, just in a moment. Go to your pantry and find something to make, if you don’t have anything planned. :) Be Frugal. Be Simple. Be a Homemaker.

If you are participating in the Homemaker In Training Thursday meme, be sure to leave a comment for Miss Eyebright and give your link. That is so other girls can read it too. You can post your favourite recipes and share them with other Homemakers In Training. :)

Becoming a Homemaker,
      Rachel

I hope you have enjoyed reading the thoughts of a fourteen-year-old girl from the country."You can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens you!" Philippians 4:13

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - dressings

Posted by Illoura

You sound so cheerful that I had to respond... LOL
One thing you might try instead of the vinegar part of your salad dressing is a citrus fruit juice like orange (and maybe add a little zest as well).
Thanks for sharing!

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by gabbie427

We make octodogs. LOL They are so fun to make and kids LOVE them. So, you take a hot dog, and cut it lengthwise only about 3/4 up in half, then in half again, and again, until you have 8 tentacles. Then you boil it and the tentacles get all curly!! It is hilarious and doesn't take long, so get the kids ready for the show before you drop them in. We serve ours over mac and cheese and put drops of ketchup or mustard on them for eyes and a mouth.

God's Blessings,
Amy Jo

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by humbleheart

Just wanted to say hello.It has been awhile so I have a lot to read to catch up!
Blessings

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