Does your menu plan ever feel a bit stale? Or non-existent even?

Here are 6 new recipes to freshen things up! The first & last one I’ve tried and loved. The middle 4 are all on my menu plan for next week. {So I’ll let you know how they measure up!} As always, these recipes – as well as many others – can be found on my Pinterest board. Follow me for more yummy inspiration!

Last Sunday, I had an insanely strong craving for pasta & shrimp with cream sauce, crusty bread, and a big green salad. There were several problems with this scenario:

• no shrimp could be located in our home. not even under the couch in a dark, faraway corner.
• no bread was in the home either.
• we were leaving for church in 30 minutes.

The craving and hunger level had only increased by the time I got back from church. So I made a double batch of this recipe – which Jonathan and I feasted on after putting the kids to bed. I added grated parmesan to the top of the pasta, used spaghetti instead of bowtie noodles, and skipped the red onion {purely out of the need to get food in my belly pronto + the lack of desire to chop}. Delish.

 

This picture just speaks summer to me. I cannot wait to try it and see if it tastes as delicious as it looks!

 

Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup definitely reminds me more of fall & winter food. But I’m going with it anyway. It’s been rainy and cold here this entire week, so that may be affecting my menu plan just a wee bit. Either way, this looks pretty tasty.

 

Quinoa, black beans, tomatoes, corn, & feta cheese – sounds like a recipe I could use right about now. This will be my first experience both cooking & eating quinoa. Kinda excited about the prospect…

 

I cannot wait to try this Zuppa Toscana and see if it’s really better than Olive Garden. I mean, Olive Garden holds a pretty high standard for Zuppa Toscana IMHO. I have kale sitting in my fridge just begging to be made into this soup. I’ll keep you posted.

 

And finally, this Creamy Spaghetti was what we ate for dinn-dinn last night. You don’t even cook the noodles before putting it in your crockpot. Maybe it was just my crockpot, but I had to revise the directions and switch this to low for the 4th hour because my noodles were pretty much cooked and I didn’t want creamy mush. Yummy flavor & I’ll probably try this recipe again to see if it was just user error. Note: this recipe makes a LOT. So be prepared to either have tons of leftovers or just make it for lots of big eaters.

 

So, what’s on your menu next week? Anyone trying any new recipes?

 

 

 

 

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