Today, my husband is once again my age. (I have an entire three months on him, so from August to November he gets to brag about how much younger he is than I.) We don’t typically do much for birthdays around here – unless you consider the food. The honoree gets to choose all three meals for the day. However, today didn’t work very well for me to cook all of Matt’s favorites since we’re feeding so many extras during our morning marriage class and our evening high school huddle. Therefore, it would seem that we are celebrating his birthday all week long, cooking his favorite meals on different days of the week when we can squeeze it in. Sounds like more fun anyway, huh? Bring on the Stromboli!
And speaking of tonight’s Huddle, I decided to do something a little different for this meal. I’ll be making five Easy Breakfast Casseroles and serving them with fruit and muffins. I’ve had so much fun this weekend baking around 130 muffins in preparation. Batter, chocolate chips, flour and muffin papers (which I got for 1/2 price on November 1st, by the way) have been flying!
Here’s our menu for this week:
Sunday, November 6
Marriage Class – Banana muffins
Lunch – Steak fajitas with onions, peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese and sour cream (birthday meal #1)
High School Huddle – Easy breakfast casserole (x5), chocolate chocolate chip muffins (x4), blueberry muffins (x2), banana muffins (x3), pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, grapes, orange slices
Monday, November 7
Leftover muffins from Sunday, if there are any left?
Sloppy joes, ranch potato wedges, peas, boysenberry cobbler (birthday dessert)
Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, okra (birthday meal #2)
Tuesday, November 8
Pancake sausage muffins, blueberries
Pigs in a blanket, applesauce, carrots with ranch
Lasagna (x5), honey whole wheat bread (x 4), green beans, tossed salad (end of season meal for YC ladies soccer team)
Wednesday, November 9
Scrambled eggs with cheese, creamy orange cooler
Tuna salad on toast, fruit-kefir smoothies
Cheesy turkey sausage stromboli, tossed salad (birthday meal #3)
Thursday, November 10
Homemade beef summer sausage, mini apple pies
Leftovers (because surely we’ll have some after all of those big meals)
Black bean taco salad
Friday, November 11
Peanut butter honey toast, applesauce
Pizza casserole, steamed carrots and broccoli
Nachos
Saturday, November 12
Mini breakfast pizzas, oranges
Clean out the fridge
Venison steak, cream scalloped potatoes, peas
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I thought that only us southerners ate okra :D It is my hubby’s favorite veggie, if you can consider a veggie something with breading that has been through the deep fryer!
No way! I’m in PA and I eat okra. Love it!
We rarely get it to grow here in NE, but we had a GREAT okra year this summer. We ate it as much as we could and now have lots in the freezer for this winter!!!
Any chance you can come cook for me any time soon? Yum, my mouth always waters at your menus. I’d hire you if I had the money. :)
You’d have to stand in line.. if I had the money I’d hire her too. lol
If I had the time, I’d cook for both of you!
Can you share how you make your nachos?
I should have linked it, sorry about that! https://www.heavenlyhomemakers.com/healthier-cheese-dip-a-velveeta-and-rotel-recipe-knock-off
I have 3 months on my hubby, too, & he never lets me forget how OLD I am from March to June :) Thank you for all the recipes & tips you share – I love your blog!
Happy birthday Matt!
What time is breakfast? Looks yummy, Happy B’day Matt :)
Wow. Looking at all those muffins (and other food) made me tired. That was a lot of work girl!
happy birthday, Matt! Yum, look at all those good foods to try!