28 May – rhubarb pie with cheese for breakfast. here is one place I do not halve the sugar. 

27 May – baked pollock with leeks, red peppers 
and lemons over creamy polenta.

26 May – pasta and sauce, garlic bread
it seems we have pasta "every other night". 
at the end of this year, 
we will know for certain.

25 May – black bean burrito

24 May – 95˚F


BLTs, canned baked beans, blueberries

youngest son likes the parts separate

23 May – Everyone home for dinner.
What we call Venezuelan chicken, because my husband had a similar dish in Venezuela (pan sautéed chicken–no extra oil–cover with a can of enchilada sauce and simmer until the chicken is done), sweet potatoes (or you can have plantians), black beans. I forgot to make rice. We usually have rice, as well. Instead, we had bread.

22 May –  youngest son made steak, salad, bread.

21 May – more lemon shrimp. yum. this time with seasoned olive oil my Dad brought from Italy–with basil, peppercorns and hot peppers.

tomatoes with tomato vinegar & fresh basil

20 May – babysat my 3-year-old nephew. pizza at my sistter's. 
Lemon cookies she was taking to her get-together.

19 May – our middle son's 18th birthday. my work friend, Sue, saved the day with this recipe–http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/lemon-pasta-with-roasted-shrimp-recipe2/index.html
so good. so easy. so filling. I made it for three teenage boys/men + my husband and me and we did not finish the full recipe. I even used frozen shrimp.

update–so, while cleaning up the dishes, I realized I never added the lemon juice, just the zest! whoops.


update 2 (May 20) – wow, what a tired cook I was – in reviewing the recipes with friends this morning, I realized I never added the butter, either. 

pasta with roasted shrimp

spinach salad

bread
birthday cake 
espresso

18 May – the rest of my family had dinner at Punch Pizza and brought me a slice (not pictured).

17 May – just settling back in for the summer, and what wonderful thing does my college son do, but make dinner! fresh-from-scratch pasta sauce.

16 May – burgers, homemade mac & cheese

15 May – son home from college for the summer
baked salmon, homemade hash brown, salad.

14 May – my friend's birthday. Dinner at a fabulous Italian restaurant. http://www.osteriapapavero.net/.

Salami plate

cod, mussels & beans

the birthday girl

13 May – pasta and sauce, garlic bread 
(not pictured) salad

12 May – homemade chicken noodle soup, 
banana bread, spinach salad

11 May – home sick. my youngest son made the chicken–made up the seasonings himself–secret ingredient Paprika. Fabulous.

Baked chicken, garlic mashed potatoes, 
sautéed broccoli with brown sugar & soy sauce 

9 May – Happy Mother's Day – quiet day at our house, which is what I wanted. Made what I wanted to eat. My youngest son helped make the strawberry shortcake, which were terrible. Betty Crocker's recipe did not work out–flat, dry, not flaky. Don't know what I did wrong. Nothing whipped cream could not fix!

Crab cakes (store bought), 
arugula salad with blue cheese dressing, 
asparagus, hash brown. 

Strawberry shortcake.

Lovely lilacs from my son.

8 May – dinner at our favorite restaurant, Pho 79 –  a new soup for me, Mi Hoanh Thanh. Egg noodles, pork wontons, BBQ pork. Fabulous.


My husband and son had their standard, Pho Ga. Other son was tearing down the art show his work was in. Bun Salad to go is in the fridge for him.

7 May – my 17-year-old asked "what is this?"


hot dish (and garlic bread)

I grew up on this hot dish, but my kids haven't grown up with hot dish at all. Don't know what possessed me to make it. Maybe the fact we had snow predicted for the 7th of May and it was so cold that I turned the heat back on. This was a modern version, however. I used ground turkey instead of ground beef.

6 May – frozen pizza 

5 May – everyone home–hot dogs and home fries

4 May – 4th of May and 4 different schedules. 1 ate at grandma's all afternoon and was not hungry, 1 was off playing the Senior Year Game, husband came home late, I had leftover burger.

3 May – spaghetti & meatballs 
(made the meatballs out of the leftover burger mix–don't tell my family)

2 May – burgers, asparagus, black bean & corn salad


burger mix
ground beef (usually 85% lean)
Johnson's Better Burger spice blend
Johnson's Sausage, Rio, WI
great brats, too 
http://www.johnsonssausage.com/
dried onions
barbeque sauce
Worcestershire sauce

1 May – (not pictured) leftover porketta & rice, asparagus

30 April – snacked on something before we went to the Orchestra, can't remember what...