Author: Carol
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From Salads to Saltines: A Saturday Full of Surprises
2025 Summer 4 – Saturday July 12, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 4, Saturday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal I didn’t make it to lunch. Stephen and Barb went to Miller’s Ale House on 192 and ordered what I assume were two of the largest salads…
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The Friday That Steak Salad Lost and Steak Won
2025 Summer 4 – Friday July 11, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 4, Friday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal I meant to make the Thai Beef Salad. I really did. The steak was defrosted, the recipe was queued up, and everything was in place… until I…
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Easy Beef and Lime Rice Salad for Hot Summer Nights
🥗2025 Summer 4 – Thursday July 10, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 4, Thursday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal This was originally just a ground meat and rice dish, but Summer 2025 called for something lighter, brighter, and less hot-kitchen-energy. So we served it over a…
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From Meal Plan Meltdown to Pasta Night Perfection
2025 Summer 4 – Wednesday July 9, 2025 — by Carol in 2025, Summer 4, Wednesday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal Remember that beautiful plan for Beef and Lime Rice Salad? Yeah, about that… The ground beef — a hefty 2-pound vacuum-packed chunk from our quarter cow —…
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From Sizzle to Salad: Beating the Heat One Cold Plate at a Time
2025 Summer – Meal Plan July 14, 2025 — by Carol in 2025, Summer 5, From Scratch, Meal Plan, Weekly Dinner ☀️ Season Week #5: The Season Starts… with sweat, sunscreen, and salads that slap This week’s menu is brought to you by the letters H and U (for HOT and UNHINGED). It’s mid-July in…
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1 Frozen Mistake That Sent Me Straight to the Drive-Thru
2025 Summer 4 – Tuesday July 8, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 4, Tuesday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu Main Dish: Supposed to be Beef & Lime Rice SaladSide Dish: Supposed to be Chili Lime Sweet Corn SaladActual Meal: Wendy’s TakeoutEmbedded: Quarter-cow ground beef that decided not to thaw 🙃 📸 Final Plate…
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Make-Ahead Magic: These Chilled Wraps Are the Summer Dinner You Need
🟠 2025 Summer 4 – Monday July 7, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 4, Pork, Weekly Dinner 🍽️ The Menu 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal This is what happens when meal prep meets personality: one wrap for each of us, all prepped the night before and chilled until perfectly sliceable. We…
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Summer Meals So Easy, Your A/C Will Thank You
Summer Week #4 – Meal Plan July 6, 2025 — by Carol in 2025, Summer 4, From Scratch, Meal Plan, Weekly Dinner ☀️ Season Week 4: The Season Starts… to sweat through your clothes before noon We’ve entered that glorious part of summer when the humidity has its own personality and even the mosquitoes seem…
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Grilled Hopes, Frozen Realities, and One Killer Burrito Bowl
2025 Summer 3 – Post Week Wrap-Up July 7, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 3, Weekly Meals, From Scratch, Meal Plan 👋 Welcome Back! Let’s just say this week had plans… and then this week had real life. We made some things. We skipped others. We pushed the seafood aside for frozen pizza.…
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What to Eat on a Lazy Sunday: Easy Lunch and No-Cook Dinner Ideas
2025 Summer 3 – Sunday July 6, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 3, Sunday Recap, Real-Life Meal Planning, Leftover Lunch and Easy Dinner Ideas, Our Everyday Food Journey 🍽️ The Menu 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal Our Everyday Food Journey doesn’t pause on Sunday — it just slows down. Today’s meals…