Last week I posted about some freezer recipes that I had prepared. Tonight we had the Chicken Parmesan. I took the pan out of the freezer last night and let it thaw in the refreigerator. Tonight at about 5pm, I set the oven and a few minutes later, popped the meal into the oven. About 45 minutes later, I started to boil some water for some mini penne to go with the meal. We still had some homemade french bread from yesterday. I wished I had gone to the store to get some salad fixings, but it didn't happen today, oh well! So about 6pm, we all sat down for dinner. The final verdict was 4 very big thumbs up!! The chicken was very, very good and the sauce, oh, it was very good also!! (Thanks Cena for that great recipe!) The best news is I have three more Chicken Parmesan meals in the freezer!! Yum!

Before church on Sunday, I put a boneless pork butt in the crock pot so we could have pulled BBQ pork sandwiches for dinner that night. I was telling my mom about a recipe I found for ribs, but I used it for the pork and I really liked it!  Basically, it is this recipe. I use water instead of cola and for the pork butt, I don't grill it. Once we were ready to eat, I took the pork out of the crock pot and shredded up the meat. Then I put all the meat in a pan with some really good BBQ sauce from Trader Joe's and put it on the stove top to heat up the sauce a little bit. The pork was so tasty because it hadn't been sitting in BBQ sauce all day!

The other recipe I made this week was some oatmeal cookies from the Quaker Oats box. I like that recipe with chocolate chips! Yum! Instead of baking the whole batch all at once, I like to flash freeze some of the dough. Basically scoop some of the dough into balls and set them on wax paper on a cookie sheet. Put them in the freezer until they are hard. Then just put them in freezer bags and save them for a day when you want a fresh baked snack in the afternoon. Saves on eating 6 dozen cookies or so within a few days!