Hungry Hippos

Thanks to an impulse buy of "Real Simple" magazine, Brian and I have now planned a week's worth of "easy" dinners. Here's the easy plan (in no particular order - the fact that we have a week's worth of delicious meals plans is all the planning we do. None of this "Monday-I'm-having-this-and-this" crap)...

- Steak With Potato-Parsnip Mash (steak and potatoes people)

- Chicken Posole (some kind of soupy chicken thing)

- Ravioli With Apples and Walnuts (sounds weird but the picture in the magazine looks yum)

- Pork Chops With Garlicky Broccoli (I'm not a fan of the pig but, again, the picture looks yum)

And we won't be cooking anything on Friday since we are heading up to DC for a work event. So there you have it - 4 lovely "Easy" dinners that will probably be cooked completely by Brian. I'll be sure to let you know how they turn out, although I will have no idea if they are "Easy" or not. Probably the only bonus of working late...coming home to dinner on the table ;) 

In other news we had SUCH a productive weekend. We had originally planned on going camping this weekend, but heavy rain changed those plans quickly (but really, it was NOTHING compared to the conditions I experienced whilst camping in Tasmania. True story...I'll share sometime). So instead we spruced up the yard (see 2 posts ago) and did this:

- Scrubbed the monster tub (we have a 2 person jacuzzi in the bathroom and it is SUCH A PAIN. I want it to go away) for a good 30 minutes.

- Tackled massive piles of laundry

- Walked to Stir Crazy for a lazy Sunday breakfast

- De cat-haired the rugs (ugg what a process)

- Planned and bought groceries for an obviously delicious week of dinners

- Filed a ridiculous amount of papers, bills, crap

- AND I even ate really healthy foods all weekend - salad at Chipotle, Carrot muffin and banana for breakfast, organic cereal for snacks, turkey & cheese pita with a side of grapes for dinner, and lots of milk. I feel better already

Time to tackle a long week at work...less than 2 weeks until the BIG EVENT we've been planning since April. Yikes.