Monday Ramblings

Well, I guess we are getting the remnants of Hurricane Rita here in Georgia this Monday.  It is dreary, cool, windy, and rainy, with no hopes of tomorrow looking any better.  Brent was up very early this morning to finish drawing a map for a client (he is a soil scientist).  Just about the time I was waking up, he climbed back into the bed and went sound asleep.  You don't even know how bad I wanted to call in sick to work and spend the day curled up in bed with a good book!  Nothing like a rainy day in bed!  But my logic won out, I reminded myself that the bills must be paid, and off to work  I went.

I have a really bad habit of stopping at the grocery store every day.  I usually try to go every Saturday, and buy what we need for the week.  By Tuesday or Wednesday, however, I find myself changing my mind about what I want to cook for dinner, and going  to the grocery to pick up an item or two.  The disadvantage to this is I end up spending thirty or forty dollas every time I go in - which adds up to ALOT of money by the end of the month. Sooo, my goal for this week is to cook (this week) only what I bought Saturday, and not go back to the store until next weekend.  My menu for the week is as follows:

Monday - (Tennessee-LSU game on tonight)  Bought some Boars' Head corned beef and saurkraut for homemade Ruben sandwiches - easy and yummy!

Tuesday - going to a friend's to watch NipTuck

Wednesday - Grilled pork tenderloin, wild rice, lima beans, salad

Thursday-Meatloaf with mushroom gravy, mashed potatoes, peas

Friday-Baked ziti, garlic toast, caesar salad

As you may can tell, I LOVE to cook (and LOVE to eat).  However, working full time, I normally do not have the time to cook the food  I LOVE the most - that is good old-fashioned Southern cooking.  I come from a long line of Southern cooks -mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and many great aunts.  Nelishisa, from WISHING AND HOPING, has an entry in her journal about the Southern foods she misses and craves being a Southern girl transplanted to Colorado (I believe it is the very first entry in her journal.)  More about that later.......