2025 Summer 6 – Monday July 22, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 6, Tuesday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal The base is a homemade version of Rice-A-Roni — long grain white rice toasted with vermicelli, simmered in seasoned broth (thank you, nutritional yeast), and fluffed to…

2025 Summer 5 – Sunday July 20, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 5, Sunday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal Sunday lunch out with Mom, Dad, and Stephen meant one thing: Dad got his steak. And so did I. We headed to Long Horn, where I ordered…

2025 Summer 5 – Saturday July 19, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 5, Saturday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu Main Dish:Lunch Out with Barbara Side Dish:Eye rolls, shrimp substitutions, and one very confused server Embedded:Memories of French toast past 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal Saturday means lunch with Barbara. It’s tradition,…

2025 Summer 5 – Friday July 18, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer #5, Friday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu Planned:Dill and Shrimp Salad Plate with Rice Salad and Ginger Garlic Cucumber Salad over a fresh Salad Base. Reality:Whatever we found in the kitchen. Probably something involving cheese. Maybe a pickle. Definitely not shrimp.…

2025 Summer 5 – Thursday July 17, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 5, Thursday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal This was one of those “nope, not making what I planned” nights, and honestly? No regrets. We had just enough ground beef to form five mini patties—each…

2025 Summer 5 – Wednesday July 16, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 5, Wednesday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal I had updated this to Southwest Chicken Crunch Salad, but wasn’t sure when Stephen was arriving home this evening. So tonight’s dinner took a hard left from…

2025 Summer 5 – Tuesday July 15, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 5, Tuesday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal Tuesday’s plan called for rice and ham salad, lovingly prepped the night before. But real life had other ideas — and this time, it involved zero chopping…

2025 Summer 5 – Monday July 14, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 5, Monday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal This week’s meat meal is summer simplicity and flavor perfection in one chilly, crisp bowl. Thin slices of freshly pan-seared Denver steak rest over a chilled Salad…

2025 Summer 4 – Sunday July 13, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 4, Sunday, Weekly Meals 🍽️ The Menu 📸 Final Plate 🔍 About the Meal Let’s not pretend this was planned. I wasn’t feeling great, and even after spending Saturday sprawled on the couch gaming like a true digital warrior, Sunday didn’t…

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…