Zenful Expressions

Every week I sit down and peruse several different websites, my cookbooks, and my handwritten tried and true recipes to make healthy meals for my family of five. I tend to use what I find as a base and add my own twist to each recipe, hoping to come up with my own tasty concoction to use over and over again.

Here is this weeks menu:

Monday – Baked Talapia – Oven Roasted Potatoes – Buttery Carrots

Tuesday – Shepherds Pie

Wednesday – Quick Pork “Lo Mein” – Egg Drop Soup

Thursday – Sausage Spaghetti

Friday – Breakfast for Dinner – Bacon/Vegetable Quiche

Saturday – Leftovers

Sunday – Crockpot Lasagna

You can find all the recipes, and photos for my meals here on my blog, and you can see my full menu plan here on this calendar.

Welcome to 2011! Out with the old and in with the new.

Old: Not designing & developing websites, not blogging, not sharing my homeschooling journey, not sharing my trips and vacations, not sharing my (other) passion, cooking and recipes, not using my camera everyday.

These are the items that are a part of my 2011 goal list, and on this NEVER used site, is where I am going to start.

I am an amazing designer – why I just stopped? Who knows. Why I stopped blogging – that ties into the lack of design, since that is what I most often talked about.

I quit noting my lesson plans online when a couple snagged my daughters URL for their “wedding site”. Never let your long owned domains lapse even a day! – they got a VERY heavyweight domain of mine -making over 9 years of work left sitting on a server with no face. Her site was where I documented everything homeschool. That was discouraging.

I have neglected the blog that I share with my husband, and we took plenty of trips, both on the motorcycle, and in our RV that would have been great to write about and share, but I hate the design (not mine – a template)… again, this goes back to the not wanting to design.

There were several times over 2010 that I did photograph some of the dishes I made, but I shared all of them on Facebook instead of posting to a place that is more mine.

My camera aggravates me – I have an awesome camera that the LCD screen cracked on only 2 months after getting it by someone else, so I can’t take the kind of photos I am capable of.

I know what you are thinking (if you are still reading)… the same thing as I am. Excuses.

So, no more for me. I am getting back on track in 2011.