All of last weeks meals were pretty tasty! I probably won’t make the chili again, but everything else was a hit. This week, all of the chicken dishes are new recipes, so I will update next week on how we liked them.
Tuesday Pasta with Pesto Cream Sauce Simple Seasoned Chicken Breast Halves (Seasoned with S&P, onion powder, garlic powder and a dash of Tony Chachere’s)
The only way I personally enjoy cornbread is if it is sweet. There is a certain restaurant we go to when we are in the mood for southern cooking, and with our meal they will bring us either biscuits or cornbread. I always excitedly order the cornbread, forgetting that I will be greatly disappointed when it arrives at our table and I bite into a dry, bland muffin.
These sweet cornbread muffins, however, have the perfect amount of sweetness for me. Not to mention, they only take a few minutes to whip up and pop in the oven. These are great with a dab of butter, a bit of honey, or enjoyed as is!
Ingredients 2 Tablespoons butter, melted 1/2 cup whole milk 1 large egg 2 Tablespoons honey 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 Tablespoon baking powder 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions Preheat oven to 400 F. Melt the butter in a medium bowl. Whisk in the milk, egg and honey and set aside.
In a large bowl, mix together all of the remaining dry ingredients. Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture and stir just until combined.
Spray 6 muffin tins with nonstick spray, or line with paper liners. Fill each tin until they are about 3/4 full. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
Over the years, I have tried a few different methods of storing and organizing my coupons. At first, I only printed out coupons I needed immediately from the internet, so I never had too many on hand at once and it was easy just to stick them in my wallet.
Eventually, I started buying newspapers to get the weekly inserts, but if I were to stick every coupon from the paper in my wallet, I’m sure it would have made me go crazy. This brings me to my first attempt at organizing my coupons, which was one of the small, 10-pocket accordion files from Target. This worked well for awhile, but as I started accumulating more coupons, it started to become a tedious task to find one deodorant coupon in a section that held ALL personal care items.
Still, I stuck to this method because I knew that toting around a huge coupon binder was something that was not necessary for me to do, and I had no alternative way in mind to store them. One fortunate day, many of the home organization blogs I followed started posting about the new Martha Stewart line at Staples, and with her small 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” binder in hand, my mini coupon binder was born!
A few snapshots…
The first pocket holds envelopes with specific grocery store coupons and catalinas, plus my Target coupons.
The pink card sits on top of everything in the file, and as I add items to my cart that I have coupons for, I will put those coupons on top of the pink card to keep them separated from the rest.
There are three main categories – Food, Household and Personal Care. Each of these categories is arranged in alphabetical order with sub-categories:
