Monday Inspiration: Meal Planning

Happy Monday! Sunday and Monday are my weekend days now. So today is errand day, which I really do like! 

Putting my big girl pants on today and going out to grocery shop, with my week's menu and grocery list in hand, aren't you proud? I knew you would be. That's why I'm going to share it with you:

-Tequila Chicken, Green Onion Slaw, + Pappasito's Black Beans (secret recipe from my friend Jenn)

- Cobb Salad and Black Bean Brownies (they're HEALTHY!!!!)

- Breakfast for Dinner Casserole

- Chicken Salad on green spinach salad (I'm modifying this recipe)

-Mama's meatloaf, sauteed green beans, and baked sweet potatoes
(meatloaf: 2lb ground beef, 16 oz. tomato paste, egg, onion, bell pepper, garlic, 3/4c rolled oats, s+p. Bake at 350 for 1 1/2 hours)

-Broccoli Slaw Salad- chopped broccoli, julienned cucumber, chopped tomatoes, diced red onions, chopped green onions, minced garlic. Dressing: cucumber, celery, handful of cilantro blended.

I'll be attempting my making my own mayo too, so cross your fingers for me!!!!

Thinking about food, here are some lovely dining rooms:

check out this hometour.

 

Atlantis Home Dining room, via RUE.

Emma Jane Pilkington

Don't you LOVE the variety in all these dining rooms? Happy Monday!

xoxo, 

 

Sweetened Condensed Coffee

Vietnamese coffee. 

My introduction to this delicious confection was while we were in L.A. last year. Our good friend buddy took us to this great Vietnamese restaurant and had us order them when he was shocked to hear we'd never tried one.

I kind of forgot about it until recently. 

Now it's all I can think about and I want to try making one. Maybe I'll try this version.

Do you have an easy way to make these? Secrets, please. :)

xoxo,

 

Sweet Paul Breakfast

I love the new trend of online magazines.  I am currently obsessed with brunchy-breakfasts and these photos and recipes from the new mag Sweet Paul are tantalizing. Have a look, or drool:

 Eggs Benedict are me and my hubby's favorite special breakfast. We had it on our honeymoon and we have it every anniversary. Yummy and sentimental.

 Oh my word, who doesn't love French toast!? I ALWAYS like French toast. This looks amazing.

That vanilla porridge with cooked pears also looks delicious. All I need is a strong espresso to go with such good morning food. Mmm....

Which recipe would you try?

xoxo,

Sundays

Sundays make me want brunch food. Like this amazing looking Marmalade Stuffed Brioche French Toast. Mmmmm!!!! I want this now!

Get the recipe here.

xoxo,
 

Monday Inspiration

Another rainy Monday? sigh. Today I'm working on some ideas and plans about our next phase... project: putting-life-back-together-after-a-year-of-wanderlusting. More on that later. ;)

 

J'adore Kishani Perera. I've blogged about her before, I know, but today, I just love this image. It's so perfect for the rainy drizzling day. I love the greyish-white cool background; I love the arched window; I love the white painted brick fire place; I love the dark (is it navy or is it black) front door; I love the restrained splashes of yellows, teals, and purple-y pinks. 

I love the simplicity of it all.

 

I'm dying to make these: Coconut Milk Fudge! (from Smitten Kitchen)

Apparently these are chocolate/coconutty dulce de leche little treats. The foundation being sweetened condensed milk... a Southern thing, isn't it? Add cocunut milk, butter and corn syrup (don't let the "it's made from corn and is fine in moderation" crap fool you into thinking this is healthy), boil, reduce heat to low until you get  a fudgey texture (mmm), then refridgerate. The fun part looks like the rolling into balls and dipping into pistachios or toasted coconut or sprinkles. 

(Really. I'm heading out the door to the grocery store to grab the ingredients as soon as I'm finished with this post)

This room is killing me. 

After scrolling through my ridiculously long blogger reader, I came across these images (from Design Dump) and saw that they're from a furniture manufacturer IN SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE!!! 

I LOVE San Miguel! We went for New Year's this year and it was FABULOUS!

Anyway, the furniture makers/artisans are called Casamidy. 

Go there and drool. 

Lovely things.

this is where we stayed in San Miguel. 

You need to go there.

Really, you do.

Happy New Week!

xoxo,