For other meal planning posts, visit orgjunkie. Also, for those of you who are interested, I’m going to be posting a couple of Irish recipes later this week for St. Patrick’s Day. I’ll try to put them up pretty early for anyone who might want to make them for next week. Till then, Happy Monday!

Hello all. Hope you all had a good weekend. If you haven’t done so already, check out last week’s recipe of the week for Chicken Florentine Casserole . It’s a great one! Now on to this week’s menu. I have a couple of new things to try, along with some “old faithfuls.”

Monday – Cheesy Chicken & Pasta (this is one of those Campbells box dinners)
Tuesday – Baked Fish (w/ lemon), Steamed vegetables, Green beans, Hushpuppies
Wednesday – Country Fried Steak, Mashed potatoes, Peas, Bisquits
Thursday – Leftover Buffet
Friday – Chicken Soup w/ sandwiches
Saturday – eat out
Sunday – Chicken Rarebit (new recipe) w/ french fries or chips & dip

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Hello everyone. I’m happy to say that my menu last week was a success. And the white sauce I made turned out to be delicious. I’ll be sure to post the recipe in the near future. Now moving right along to this week’s menu. I’m planning to make few of mine & my husband’s favorite dishes this week, and I’ve also found a new recipe to try for Chicken Florentine (which will more than likely be an upcoming recipe of the week, so stay tuned!)

Monday – Grilled chicken sandwiches w/ fries.
Tuesday – Chicken & Dumplins w/ pinto beans & cornbread (one of my fave meals)
Wednesday – Chicken florentine casserole w/ steamed vegetables (new recipe!)
Thursday – Ham steak & leftovers from Tuesday & Wednesday
Friday – Pizza
Saturday – eating out, probably Chinese or Applebees
Sunday – Cheeseburger Macaroni, corn & veggies

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Hello everyone. Welcome to another Menu Plan Monday. Since going out of town last weekend I’ve been a bit under the weather and sort of fell behind on just about everything from checking email to cleaning house to filing & doing paperwork. My husband told me not to worry about it, but I just can’t help it. I hate falling behind, especially when I have a lot of projects I’m trying to get going on top of every day work. But hopefully this week I can start “regrouping” and get back on track. So let’s get started with my weekly menu.

I’m looking forward to this week. I’m making potato soup, which is a big favorite of mine. And I’m also making some chicken with white sauce, a favorite Southern recipe, made even more popular by Big Bob Gibson, originally out of Decatur, Alabama, just a few miles from where I grew up.

Here’s kind of a cute story. We ate grilled chicken with white sauce all the time when I was a kid, and I just always assumed that everyone ate it everywhere until my husband informed me that nobody that he knew of served it in the Southern part of our state (where he was from) largely because it’s on the gulf and they’re big into seafood down here (not barbecue), and he had never had barbeque w/ white sauce till he moved to the Tennessee Valley to go to college (where he met me). Well, the first time I ever took him to eat at Bob Gibson’s resturant, he got very excited when he saw the white sauce on the table, and said, “Oh, this stuff is great. I’d never had this till I moved up here. Have you tried this?” And I’m just kind of sitting there a little confused and thinking, “It’s just white sauce.” He was pleased when I told him that my mom had a recipe for white sauce and that I’d make it for him sometime.

Well, another blogger out of Long Island, New York (sorry I can’t remember what site it was) did a post on barbeque this week, and they just happened to mention Big Bob Gibson, so I got inspired and decided it would be a good week to break out my mom’s recipe and try to make it for my first time. (wish me luck)

Monday – Baked porkchops w/ rice & green beans
Tuesday – Potato soup w/ sandwiches
Wednesday – Chicken w/ white sauce, potato salad, baked beans
Thursday – Left overs
Friday – Chicken Alfredo w/ bread sticks
Saturday – Eating out
Sunday – Shrimp Stirfry

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Last week I tried out the chicken noodle casserole, and it was absolutely delicious. In fact, as I went though the preparation process, I had a taste, and it was so good that I decided to leave out a couple of ingredients. In fact, it tasted just like a recipe for chicken & dumplings that a friend of my family used to make. I took a photo of the dish & will definitely do a separate post on this recipe very soon in the future. Now time to look at this week’s menu.

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In this week’s menu I’ve included a recipe for Chicken Noodle Casserole. It’s a new recipe that I just recently came across, and I’m going to be trying it for the first time. I’ll let you know how it turns out. And speaking of new recipes, over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be posting some new recipes for Super Bowl Sunday and Valentine’s Day. (so back soon, food lovers!)

Now here’s my menu for the week: