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Menu Monday

Chris has made a request for more veggie casseroles, as we seem to have been eating a lot of pasta lately.  I agree.  Unfortunately, he told me this after I’d already planned on making a yummy-looking recipe that I’d heard about via The Farmer and the Southern Belle, so he’ll have to wait just a [...]

Posted 30 August 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Menu Monday § Recipes ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Menu Monday

Hey everyone – hope you had a great weekend.  Mine was fun on Friday but went downhill from there: sore throat, runny nose, cough, bloodshot eyes… the works.  I slept cradling a Kleenex box instead of my husband, and each morning, the floor looked like it had snowed 2 ply lotion tissues.  Yuck.  I loaded [...]

Posted 23 August 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Food § Menu Monday § Recipes ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Cheesy Pasta with Roasted Squash and Bacon

I’ve mentioned before that since moving to New Zealand, I’ve started branching out in some of our recipes.  One particular ingredient that I’ve been using a lot of is squash {or pumpkin, as it’s called over here}.  I’ve turned to Cooking Light many times for meal ideas and recipes, and they were the source for [...]

Posted 18 August 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Cooking § Food § Recipes ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Menu Monday!

Hey everyone – hope you had a great weekend.  Ours was busy.  I went to a cute cafe in Ponsonby called “Agnes Curran”, stopped in at Milly’s Kitchen Shop, checked out a store called “The Mad Butcher”, went to Mitre 10 for some things {the equivalent of a Lowe’s in NZ}, and looked at furniture.  [...]

Posted 16 August 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Cooking § Food § Menu Monday § Recipes ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

Homemade Salsa in New Zealand

In case you aren’t aware, then let me inform you that New Zealand isn’t exactly known for it’s Mexican food :-) Tortilla chips are thicker here and we’ve found them to either be very salty, have a cheese flavor, or taste slightly sweet.  We’ve only seen one brand of salsa, and it comes in small [...]

Posted 30 July 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Food § Mexican Food § Recipes ‡ Comments (10) ° Also tagged: , ,

Menu Monday

I had my first online grocery shopping experience this weekend, and I’m hooked!  It was so cool to shop in my pajamas while watching “Friends” on Friday night.  That’s right – I just admitted that I was watching re-runs in my PJs on a Friday night.  In my defense, it was rainy, I was tired, [...]

Posted 26 July 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Cooking § Menu Monday § Recipes ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: , ,

Menu Monday

Since I started work this week, the menu is a lot of easy, quick-prep meals.  Anything that can be made in advance is good!  Chris is so funny – when I told him that I was going back to work on Monday {this was last week}, he was excited… at first.  Then a few hours [...]

Posted 19 July 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Food § Menu Monday § Recipes ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: ,

Chocolate Death

A word of caution: this dessert could lead to declarations of love and/or spontaneous marriage proposals.  Use wisely! I decided to make Chocolate Death for a church get-together.  Once a month our church has an open discussion on Sunday nights.  It’s jokingly referred to as “stump the pastor”, because it’s a time when anyone can [...]

Posted 05 July 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Chocolate § Desserts § Food § Recipes ‡ Comments (9) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Menu Monday

I haven’t done a Menu Monday in awhile.  I was working a crazy schedule prior to our move: I worked, slept, and that was it.  I ate once a day, if you can believe that {no, that wasn’t a diet plan – I was too tired to eat and too busy at work to take [...]

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