Menu Plan Monday

I'm still glowing from my trip from Florida, and I'm also excited about my giveaway which currently only has 4 entries (you should really enter!). I'm dipping into one of my favorite recipe books Organically Raised by Anni Coulter this week for our recipes. At this point I've tried many of her recipes and I haven't found one that isn't amazing.

Anyway here is the plan for the week. :)

Monday:  Chicken drumsticks and Anni's sweet potato fries
Tuesday: Pan seared fish lettuce cups (my kids love lettuce tacos)
Wednesday: Roasted Salmon with potatoes and mushrooms
Thursday: Slow Cooker Cuban Braised Beef and Peppers
Friday: Home made pizza
Saturday: Leftovers
Sunday: Perfect Roasted Chicken

It's going to be a full week this week.  I hope you'll hop on down and enter the giveaway.  It's a good one. :)

Sweet Potato Cakes

The first recipe we tried from Anni's Organically raised was the sweet potato cakes.  I let my children sit down with the cook book to pick what they wanted to try first.  As they ooh'd and aah'd over the very cute photos in the book, the two of them settled on the sweet potato cakes.

My kids are very different.  My son is not a picky eater, and he is typically willing to try anything once.  My daughter on the other hand is a macaroni and cheese connoisseur since that's just about all she eats.  She was willing to try this recipe because she was involved with the process.  We went to whole foods together, and picked out the organic vegetable ingredients.  She felt so proud with her child size grocery cart.

In the end, she ate a few of these, and that says a lot for her.  If it's not macaroni and cheese, it's pretty much not worth her time.  Anni's recipes incorporate ingredients that simply taste good, good choices of cheeses and pan fried onions really took this simple recipe to the next level.  They were also delicious cold, which was perfect for in between meal snacks.

My son loved these so much he asked if I could make them on his birthday.  He says, "They are cakes afterall."  He ate most of these, stuffed himself silly like a growing boy should.  We're excited to try more recipes.  I keep trying to hide from my daughter that there is a macaroni and cheese recipe in here.  I'll make it for her soon. :)

Don't forget to enter into my giveaway for Anni's book, Organically Raised!

Organically Raised -- The official giveaway!

This is the official post for my latest giveaway, Organically Raised by Anni Daulter.

On Tuesday I did a review on Anni's book, Organically Raised.  I feel so fortunate to have a spare copy of this book that I can share with you.

Here are the rules:

Every entry must have it's own unique comment below.

1.  First entry is to leave a comment.

2. Second is to follow my blog. 

(this counts if you already are a follower!)

3. Third entry is to follow my blog on my facebook page.

4. Follow Anni on twitter here.

5. Follow Anni's facebook page here.

There is a max of five entries and each entry must have it's own comment below.

The winner will be picked on Monday August 2nd, at 10:00pm EST.

Best of luck to all!

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