Day Three hundred and sixty-eight

I can tell as soon as I look at the picture that my husband was in charge of dinner this night.  Dinner: Rotisserie chicken, mashed potatoes, peas, corn, and oranges.

Day Three hundred and sixty-six

School lunch for the day: Fresh mozzarella cheese, edamame crackers, cut-up apples, carrots, and cashews.

Dinner: Turkey meatloaf (with green puree ala Sneaky Chef), mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli, and grapes.

Day Two hundred and sixty-six

(Part of) lunch: Veggie and fruit platter

Dinner: Turkey cheeseburgers on whole grain buns, mashed potatoes, peas, and watermelon.

Vanilla yogurt... six jars for the fridge

Day Two hundred and forty

Dinner: Chicken-spinach pie with mashed potato crust (recipe: Parenting magazine).  This is basically like a chicken pot pie, with a mashed potato crust on top.  I mixed pureed cauliflower into the potatoes, which is a Sneaky Chef technique.  Everyone loves this one, and we had it w/fresh strawberries.

Day Two hundred and thirteen

Dinner: Rotisserie chicken (BJ's), mashed potatoes, corn and carrots, steamed broccoli, and pear slices. Still under the weather and letting my husband handle meals, which means corn for two nights in a row, lol.

Day Two hundred and two

Sparkly Easter eggs.

Breakfast: Pear apricot oatmeal (recipe: Real Simple).

The Fruitman (aka my husband playing with the fruit bowl while waiting for dinner).



Dinner: Prime rib, mashed potatoes, cauliflower gratin (with pureed yellow squash; Recipe: Sneaky Chef), asparagus, and a pina colada.

Day One hundred and sixty

Breakfast: Cream of wheat with maple syrup and fresh strawberries.

Lunch: Spinach omelet on whole grain bagel thin with fresh strawberries.

Dinner: Turkey breast in a white wine sauce (crockpot; Recipe: Make it Fast, Cook it Slow), mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli, steamed yellow squash sticks, and grapes.

Day Ninety-six

Mashed potatoes. These were my husband's doing.

Dinner: Lasagna (my grandma made this for Christmas, and sent it to us since we were sick) and steamed spinach.

Other dinner: Steak, steamed spinach, onion petals, and mashed potatoes. Who other than my husband would BBQ in the middle of a blizzard?!?

Day Seventy-five: Thanksgiving

Cornbread and chicken-apple sausage stuffing... about to go into the turkey

The turkey... just stuffed and headed for the oven. We roasted it breast-side down for the first 1 1/2 hrs, and then breast-side up for the rest of the time.

The turkey... all roasted and ready to be carved. Carving is my dad's contribution to the meal. :)

Indian corn pudding... made by my mom

Carrot-herb biscuits... these are a tradition in my family, and SO yummy. Made with half whole-wheat pastry flour.

Pumpkin soup, made by my mom. Garnished with sour cream, toasted pumpkin seeds, and applewood bacon.

Sweet potato casserole... with marshmallows

Butternut squash... made by my grandma

The stuffing (from inside the turkey)

Gravy.. made by my mom

Mashed potatoes

Green beans with carmelized shallots

The meal... turkey, gravy, green beans, stuffing, cornbread pudding, biscuits, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, and butternut squash. I'm full just typing that out!

The aftermath. I don't normally put pictures of people up, but when my husband fell asleep with his head in his dish, I felt I'd done my job. ;)

Pecan pie. As a rule, nothing store-bought goes on the table; but my husband woke up wanting pecan pie, and ran out to buy it while the turkey was roasting.

Maple pumpkin fudge, made by my mom

Apple pie, made by my grandma

Pumpkin pie, also by grandma

Thanksgiving butter cookies... also by grandma.

Day Seventy-four

Chicken apple sausage. This will be part of tomorrow's cornbread stuffing.

"The Yummiest Mashed Potatoes Ever" (according to the recipe). I'd have to agree! They have sour cream, cream cheese, a little pureed white bean in here. Also for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.

Another one for tomorrow... Sweet Potatoes... to be garnished with marshmallows, of course.


Whole wheat french bread (dough- bread machine). This isn't for Thanksgiving; just the night's dinner.

Dinner: Four cheese whole grain pasta bake, french bread, and green beans.

Day Seventy-two

Mashed potatoes. This was for my daughter's school Thanksgiving feast. The recipe made such a large bowl that I kept some extra at home for dinner. (Score!)

Dinner: Leftover mish-mosh. Spaghetti from the other night, mashed potatoes from earlier, turkey hot dogs, and steamed broccoli.


Blueberry sorbet (recipe: Sneaky Chef). This really counts as fruit, as it is blueberries, cranberry pomegranate juice, and a splash of honey, pureed in the food processor. I love that my kids call it "dessert," though.

Day Thirty

Breakfast: Blueberry oatmeal with a hint of maple syrup.

Dinner: London broil stew. I supplied the recipe to my husband, but don't eat meat, so my dinner was leftover chicken stroganoff from the other night.

The full dinner: The beef stew, asparagus, potatoes, carrots, onions, a ciabatta roll, and honeydew.

Day Twenty-one

Dinner: Roasted turkey with brown gravy, mashed potatoes, challah bread, and green beans. We threw this together quickly after an afternoon out... I can't take credit for roasted the turkey or anything!

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