Menu Plan Monday ~ March 26/12
The last week of March, umm what? Seriously this is crazy. The change of seasons though means new menu options though. As spring comes in I look forward to grilling again and more salads. Yum!
So this past weekend I made the Rainbow Spring Dessert for a church potluck. Now I’m not sure when I’ll ever learn to pay attention to the recipes before I start baking them but once again I ran into trouble. I didn’t start until 9:00 at night and the first ingredient in the list was a cube of butter. Well I’m from Canada and we don’t use that term here so I had no idea how much a cube of butter is. I remembered in the States you have sticks of butter which are 1/2 cup so my gut reaction was that was it. I then did a quick google search and it looked like my guess was correct. However after making the dessert with the 1/2 cup butter, my crust was totally crumbly and didn’t hold together at all. So I’m assuming more butter was needed, what do you think? It was still absolutely delicious though, crumbs and all. So delicious in fact this is the only picture I was able to get, oops 🙂
The other dish we really loved was the Easy French Dip Sandwiches. I love quick and easy meals for busy nights. So good!
Have a great weekend everyone!
My Weekly Menu Plan:
Monday: Meatball Sub Simmer
Tuesday: Slow Cooker Bacon-Wrapped Apple BBQ Chicken with sweet potatoes and broccoli
Wednesday: Tortellini Soup with Baby Spinach and Chicken (using leftover chicken) served with Bread Machine Garlic Bread
Thursday: Leftover buffet
Friday: Quick and Easy Homemade Pizza
Saturday: Breakfast for Dinner ~ Strawberry Whole Wheat Pancakes
Sunday: YOYO (you’re on your own!)
WHAT’S ON YOUR MENU THIS WEEK?
Menu Plan Guidelines, banner selections and recipe helpers are here.
More family favorite recipes here.
One of my favorite menu planning resources:
Also don’t forget to enter to win a Staples Mailmate Shredder here.
I love the picture of the empty dish 🙂
Thanks for hosting Laura! I hope you have a wonderful Monday.
The empty dish photo cracks me up too! Have a great week!
Toni
An empty dish is a sign of a good recipe and from the looks of that dish that is a very delicious one.
Thanks for hosting. Have a great week,
For as much as I love sweet potatoes, I forget about them as a side dish. I love your dinner idea on Tuesday… I’ll be there around 5 😉
I have no idea what a cube of butter is either…
I am going to have to try the bacon wrapped apple bbq chicken, sounds yummy! Thanks for hosting.
Thanks Laura, the French Dip Sandwiches are a favorite Saturday treat around our house
Hi Laura! Thanks so much for linking up to my chicken tortelini soup. I hope you love it. It is such a great way to use up leftover chicken.
Here is my menu plan http://www.skinnymomskitchen.com/2012/03/25/weekly-diet-weight-loss-menu-plan/. I forgot to add a back link to your site so it is not letting me add my menu plan to the linky. I will change that when I get home…sorry.
Anyway, love the menu planning resources. They are always sooooo helpful.
Have a great week.
The magnet printable is cute! Great for visual planners.
I’m looking forward to trying the Easy French Dip sandwiches tonight! Thanks for finding it for us! 🙂
Laura, I live in the States. I use butter — and an embarrassingly large quantity of butter at that — and I have never heard of a “cube” of butter. I’ve never seen a measurement of butter in anything other than tablespoons or fractions of a cup (1/2, 1/3, 1/4 … you get what I mean).
Anyhoo, my point is, don’t feel bad. I’d have been stymied, too. Won’t stop me from trying out this recipe for Easter!
Thanks so much for hosting! Hope you — and everyone here! — have a great week!
Thanks Kelly, that makes me feel better 🙂
Breakfast for dinner is always tasty. I will usually do a frittata.. but those strawberry pancakes sound divine.
Here is my meal plan for the week: http://www.mylifeasnickijay.com/2012/03/weekly-meal-plan/
Those Easy French Dip sandwiches look so good. Will have to file that away for a busy night idea. Thanks for hosting.
Great recipes, thanks for sharing.
A cube of butter in my world (Utah) is 1/2 cup. There are 4 cubes in a pound package.
Happy Monday!
I love seeing my dishes get wiped clean at events where i bring food :). My menu plan this week is almost all Pinterest-inspired!
A cube of butter is more commonly referred to as a stick of butter here in the States and yes, it is 1/2 a cup. I think it’s a regional thing. I grew up in California but my grandmother, who lived next door, was from Oklahoma and Texas. I’ve heard both all my life so both sound fine to me. My brief research indicates that “cube” may be more common on the West coast. I’m more likely to refer to it as a stick and really, if you think about it, it really isn’t a cube. 😉
I read cookbooks for fun. I cook and bake. I love butter. I’m from the west coast (as are the women who taught me to cook) and I’ve never heard of the term “cube of butter”. The “stick” (equals 1/2 cup) seems reasonable to me… but so does a knob of unmeasured butter than is cube-shaped… and how much butter that is probably depends on if you buy the short-fat sticks or the long-skinny sticks.
That said, butter is made/sold in a two slightly different shapes – both sticks, but one is thinner and longer, the other shorter and fatter. And I believe the shape is regional… though with nationally distributed goods that is probably changing (but I don’t recall seeing short-fat sticks in the midwest, I see both now that I live on the west coast).
I keep forgetting to link up with the post, I remembered this week… I love all the yummy ideas and am going to start saving some more to try.
this has been such a life saver and FUN!
Sometimes I forget to take a photo of our recipe before the hubby and son get to it!
ooooh! That french dip sandwich looks YUMMY!
Might need to try that one. Mmmmmm
I can’t wait to try the Slow Cooker Bacon-Wrapped Apple BBQ Chicken, it will be on our menu next week!!! Thanks so much again for hosting the menu link up!
Blessings,
Lisa
These are some really great ideas! I have also been addicted to finding recipes on Pinterest. Plus great ways to organize at http://pinterest.com/storagemart/.
We also really loved the Easy French Dip Sandwiches. I made them this week and I’m sorry I didn’t make a double-batch for our take-to-work lunches. I never thought of how easy these would be using canned soup. I’ve been following your site for a couple of months now and have gotten so much inspiration from it. Thank you!
I recently came across “cube of butter” in a cookbook from my mom. It made me laugh, because as stated earlier, they aren’t really cubes at all, and because we can’t even buy them in Canada. Basically, it is 1/4 of a pound of butter…also known as 1/4 of 454g (the kind wrapped in paper!)