Dinner Calendar - January 2008

Wow, I'm totally on a roll on these!
Thomas moved out this month so dinner was back down to usually being for just the kids, somewhat for me and occasionally for Joe. Actually, he went back on Adkins with the new year so he started eating chicken breasts at home for dinner more often. But we switched chicken, previously I always cooked up fajita-seasoned chicken breasts to order in the cast-iron skillet. Now, with the microwave oven installed, I was buying the pre-cooked breasts and Joe waves them himself whenever he wants them. With Thomas not being here regularly, Big Dinners started to include both him and his best friend/house-mate Bobby and they both have a big liking for the Tamaleo tamales so that's what we usually have for the Big Dinners.

So here is the dinner calendar for January 2008:

1 - Salmon, tortellini, black-eyed peas, rice
2 - Black-eyed peas & rice w/ turkey gravy, tortellini & ravioli w/ sauce
3 - Ate out at Satellite Cafe
4 - Hot dogs w/ buns, broccoli
5 - Tortellini, seaweed salad
6 - Spaghetti w/ sauce, broccoli, Joe had salmon & brisket
7 - Ravioli w/ meatballs & sauce
8 - Hot dogs w/ chili
9 - Macaroni & Cheese w/ mixed veggies & ground beef mixed in
10 - Leftover Mac & Cheese, spaghetti & ravioli
11 - Pizza bites
12 - Ravioli w/ sauce
13 - Ate out at Trudy's
14 - Baked potato soup (doctored a fresh-ingredient kit from HEB)
15 - Ate out at The Cheesecake Factory
16 - Homemade veal dumplings (the Asian kind not the Bisquick kind), smoked oysters
17 - Smoked sausage, cheese
18 - Asian noodle soup, veal dumplings
19 - Pigeon peas w/ rice
20 - Big Dinner - King Ranch casserole (see my archives for the recipe) and Bumbleberry Blossoms (berry tarts from Costco)
21 - Ate out at Satellite Cafe
22 - Leftover King Ranch Casserole for Paul, Vegetable broth for Giselle
23 - Chili w/ hot dogs, mixed veggies
24 - Ham & cheese sandwich - Giselle, yogurt w/ bananas - Paul, homemade cinnamon sugar cookies
25 - oops, forgot to write it down
26 - Ate out-in - Domino's Pizza
27 - Meatfest on the Grill 2008 - cube steak, fajita-seasoned chicken breasts & thighs, pork shoulder steak, okra & tomatoes, pasta & pesto, mixed veggies, smores (I told you that it's charcoal grill weather year-round here)
28 - Spaghetti w/ meatballs & sauce
29 - Lo Mien w/ veggies and veal dumpling insides
30 - Tortellini & ravioli w/ sauce
31 - Ham & cheese tortilla roll-ups