This week's menu...

Well, thanks to my friend Megan, we are slowly inching out of our dinner slump (thanks, Megan!). Where were we before, Pinterest? After a not so healthy week, last week, I'm hoping to get our family back where we like to be in terms of complete meals. I'm a little nervous because I've never eaten tilapia before, but I'm hoping for the best! Being raised in Alaska, I've become a seafood-snob. I usually NEVER eat seafood unless we are near an ocean. The entire time we lived in Utah, I only had seafood once. I had always told K that I'd never eat seafood in Utah, but then one day I decided I wasn't being fair since I'd never given Utah seafood a chance. Worst. Mistake. Of. My. Life. It was not good...like...at all. Recently, I've decided I need to give seafood (away from an ocean) another try because the only meat we ever eat is chicken and turkey beef, with an occasional turkey bacon. Needlesstosay, we are over chicken. Without further ado, here is what we are having this week. Feel free to share what you and your family are having for dinner this week!

Parmesan-Crusted Tilapia

BLT Pasta Salad

Roasted Shrimp & Broccoli

Grilled Bruschetta Chicken
I have been loving the website "The Girl Who Ate Everything". She has great recipes that call for very reasonable ingredients that most people have, or should have, in their pantry already--those are my favorite kind of recipes!

Winter Fruit Salad
This I will probably just make so have on the side for a few nights

Nelson Style Margarita Pizza
This isn't anything very special, we just take the stuff we like from a normal Margarita Pizza and replace the parts we don't like. Here is what we do:

Ingredients:

·      12 inch pre-made pizza crust

·      Marinara sauce

·      1-2 cups mozzarella cheese, personal preference

·      1 tomato, sliced

·      Parsley, to taste

·      Basil, to taste

·      Oregano, to taste

Make it:

·      Coat pizza crust with marinara sauce (as much or as little as you want)

·      Lay a layer of cheese over sauce

·      Lay tomatoes over pizza, again, as many as you want

·      Sprinkle parsley, basil, and oregano over pizza

·      Cook pizza according to directions on package

I should probably tell you that we always have some sort of vegetable with all of our meals. Our go-to vegetables are a green salad with carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower; just eating carrots, broccoli and cauliflower plain (raw or steamed); and canned French Cut green beans. We love doing the green beans because J likes them and there is zero fight--which is always a nice bonus!