Meal Plan

 Creamy Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese

 Shrimp Santorini

 Stuffed Peppers 

 Lasagna Roll Ups

Chili

 Black Bean Pizza

 Pasta with Butternut Squash, fried sageand pine nuts 

 Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

What Else is Cooking

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut ButterFrosting - Mike's Birthday Next Week!

Granola Bars

 Parmesan Chips

 Honey and Cheese

 Peanut Butter Cookies


Image 1 - Martha Stewart.com, Image 2 - The Novice Chef, Image 3 - Homemade by Holman, Image 4 - Fitness Magazine, Image 5  - The Kitchn, Image 6 - David Rocco.com
Image 7 - Ming Makes Cupcakes, Image 8 - Food Network Canada, Image 9 - CookingChannelTV.com, Image 10 - The Kitchn.

Canning

I spent the weekend at the family River House canning with some of the ladies in our family. And not just canning, canning 55 jars of tomatoes from 4 bushels. With so much tomato-y goodness, the question came up of what to make with canned tomatoes, and since I use them liberally in my cooking, I thought I'd put together a list of foods that use canned tomatoes. Here are some my favorites:

Spaghetti Sauce

Lasagna

Pizza Sauce (Reduce the Spaghetti sauce until it thickens)

Salsa

Cioppino (Seafood Stew)

Chili

Chicken Cacciatore

Spicy Tomato Soup

 

Tomato Bisque

Pork Chops alla Pizzaiola

Pepper and Potato Stew

Shrimp Santorini (Replace the blanched tomatoes with canned)

Mexican Lasagna

image by Amynonymous for Domestic Observances

Natural Family Planning

Image copyright CycleBeads.com

Check out my contributing post on Natural Family Planning over at Sustainable Baby Steps! But be advised it contains some detailed information about fertility testing, so I know it's not everyone's cup of tea. : ) I'm glad I was able to combine writing and nursing, something I hope to do more of in the future.

End of Summer

I almost forgot about these pictures that were taken during the last few weekends of summer. I'd love to write a big descriptive post for you, but I have been working on a contributing article for Sustainable Baby Steps and need to study for two exams. Wish me luck!