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Planning Ahead Week of 12/11/11

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Have you missed us? I sure have missed you. I've missed sharing our menus with you and picking my favorite recipes to share with you as well. Craig's been busy baking up a storm (pancetta and cheese bread, olive loaf, olive and truffle oil bread, his first baguettes. The man is on a serious roll. And I'm developing serious rolls). I'll nag him to write about it - it's been a lot of fun to watch him learn and experiment and I think you'd enjoy reading about it. I've been busy with....well, not with anything fun, food related or worth writing about. But starting right now, that's changing! Starting right now, I'll be busy cooking and writing about cooking. At least for the next two weeks. After that, we are off on our second annual European Christmas Vacation and you will most likely not hear from us for a while.

But that's then and this is now. And now, I want to share with you what we have planned for this week (did you see our new chalkboard? nice, huh?). We have my company holiday party on Wednesday, so just four meals this week:

Meal 1: Ravioli and rainbow chard in tomato sauce, green salad
Meal 2: Turkey hash and spinach
Meal 3: Celery soup and green salad
Meal 4: Creamy mushrooms and polenta

Have a great week and don't forget to check back in on Sunday!

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  1. AnonymousDecember 14, 2011 at 9:29 PM

    I am sooooooooo glad you are back.
    Love the chalkboard.
    And the yummy dinner plans!

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