Monday's Menu {And Featured at BlogHer Food}

Monday’s Menu {And Featured at BlogHer Food}

April 16, 2012

I’m honored to share with you that An Oregon Cottage is being featured this week over at BlogHer Food!

For those visiting from BlogHer, Mondays are always the day I share our menu- plus whatever else I feel like talking about {wink}. Today I thought I’d highlight a couple of our most popular food posts (which may be a fun reminder for our regular readers, as after three years blogging the archives are a bit large…uh-hem).

In the Popular Posts section of the sidebar, food related items are featured in four of the five posts – Best Homemade Ranch dressing, Easy Artisan Bread (made in an enameled dutch oven!), Quick and Tender Breadsticks and our most popular post, caring for your cast iron pan – even though An Oregon Cottage features DIY projects, organic gardening, and frugal lifestyle posts as well.

So food is always a good portion of our content here at An Oregon Cottage- always with the mantra of simple, frugal, and from scratch! Here are a few more food posts that our readers love:

Homemade Apple Caramel Dip

Easy Homemade Chocolate Syrup
(One of our “Pantry Basics” recipes – find more here)

Classic Homemade Caesar Salad Dressing

How To Roast and Freeze Beets – and win over any beet-haters you may know!
(and then use in one of my favorite salads, Roasted Beet Salad with Goat Cheese)

Now on to this week’s menu!

Monday- Ham Bone Soup, Easy Artisan Bread, slaw or vegetable plate

Tuesday- Slow Cooker Cassoulet, Parmesan toasts (made with leftover artisan bread), Roasted Asparagus Salad (using the first asparagus harvest!)

Wednesday- Curried Egg Salad sandwiches, chips, cut vegetables (track meet)

Thursday- Baked & breaded chicken tenders (aka, nuggets), roasted potatoes, green salad

Friday- Salmon cakes, peanut noodles with broccoli (I’ll just toss the ingredients with some Homemade Spicy Peanut Sauce), Spicy Asian Slaw

Saturday- Hamburgers using homemade buns, oven fries, cut vegetables with Ranch Dip

Sunday- Ham Dinner: Baked Ham, slow cooker scalloped potatoes (I’ll take pictures to post recipe- thought I’d already had it up!), Mustard Sauce for ham (our family’s favorite recipe coming!), roasted asparagus, green salad

-Jami

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