RecipeMuncher

Money has been a little tight. I’m not sure why, but we seem to be cutting it close lately. So, I put a voluntary moratorium on excess spending (kind of hard with Christmas coming up, but I’m giving it a try).

Then my youngest comes home from college and my husband arranged for her to go have her oil changed. I don’t remember what I said, but it was something along the lines of, “But, I just got our last auto service bill paid off.” He replied that it was only going to be around twenty dollars.

Do I need to go on? You can see where this is going…right. Yes, 0 dollars later, she now has new brakes, a new something, and a new something else!!

It gets worse. Later that day, I see my husband hunched over in the corner of our basement. I start to walk towards him and he says, “You might not want to come over here.” He points to the hot water heater. The leaking hot water heater. Then, he says, “Look at it this way, this heater was built in 1984. At this rate, if we get a new one, we’ll die before it does.”

I just stared at him and replied, “Really. Your idea of cheering me up is telling me that my hot water heater will outlive me.”

Our schedule has been all over the place since we came back from New Zealand. The menu plans have gone out the window as we have unexpected guests, or unexpected nights out. Right this moment I have two guys grunting and carrying on in the living room - Ryan has started a new exercise regime with a mate! So dinner will be a bit delayed.
We are going to have Nasi Goreng tonight. I’ve been trying to recreate a version I had back in Perth - nothing’s lived up to it since. I’ve also cooked a big batch of chili con carne - that can turn into at least six different meals later this week, when I’m too busy to cook.
So here’s the menu plan:
Nasi Goreng
Chili con carne on baked potatoes
Chunky bean salad
Fish with salad and green beans.

Happy Monday!

One of the biggest rewards of writing this blog, is seeing your comments. I love them. They make me smile, feel appreciated, and happy that you like my ideas. (We all want to be liked, right?)

Another reward is when other bloggers mention me in their posts, or recreate my recipes.

Here are just two examples:
One blogger recreated my mini fritatas recipe; another recreated my no-cooking-required mango soup.