WFD {What's For Dinner} Wednesdays

Hey y'all!  It's time for the weekly round up of what was ate here at Casa de Sophster!  I'm going to try to keep this one short and sweet today, though.

As I type, The Mister is on his way to Louisiana to pick up Sandra, and we have a VERY busy weekend planned.  As I said before, we don't see Sandra and Bryson as often or for as long as we would like, so we try to cram a lot of things into a short time.  And as much as I love you guys, I'm not going to be hanging around here talking to you all weekend!  So, I'm trying to write and schedule a few posts over the next few days...you know, so you won't worry about little ol' us over here in Sophster land!

I'm realizing quickly that, we are pretty much down to making three meals a week most weeks.  I can't tell you how happy that makes me!  When we first made the switch to paleo, I felt like I never got to leave the kitchen!  Cook, cook, cook, cook, COOOOOK was all I ever did.  Ugh.  It was exhausting.  I was rewarded though.  By the health of my family, by the fact that The Sophster will finally eat her veggies {and I don't have to hide them!}, and by regaining my own health.

Now, I've gotten this thing down, pretty much.  I can make one big meal that will last us two or three days {usually} and I get some time off from the kitchen.  Time to play and steal some much needed snuggles from The Sophster!

Let's get down to business!

Thursday night was Halloween!  We took The Sophster out for her very first trick-or-treating!  The girl had a blast!  We were out for about an hour.  We can't believe that she lasted on foot as long as she did.  After about 45 minutes, she kept getting candy and then sitting down in the driveway of said candy giver to "take a break".  So we walked for about another 15 minutes and came on home to check out her bounty!   We ate leftovers.  No way this mama was cooking after all of that trick-or-treating!

Minnie Mouse was all set for some candy hunting!

Friday night we had our pre-deployment briefing for the families, so I also did not cook that night.

Saturday night was back to the kitchen, though!  The Sophster and I decided we wanted to make some veggie spaghetti.  Let me tell you, before changing our diet to grain-free, we were a spaghetti loving family!  I usually made it once a week or so.  Since making the switch, I have tried to make a successful "veggie spaghetti" {thank you, Daniel Tiger for the name} four times....and failed each time.  Something was always missing.  So, I set out to make a new version this time....and Oh.Em.Gee people, it came out AWESOME!

I'm not going to post an entire recipe in this post, but if y'all show an interest, I'll get it typed up and in a new post.  I will tell you this, though....I made this for lunch time because Mitch had to work nights Saturday, and The Sophster not only loved it for lunch, she asked for it for dinner!  She loves this stuff!  YeSSSS!!

Want in on one of the secrets?

I added a small pat of grass fed butter on top of each pile of spaghetti squash!  Have you guys ever had real butter from grass fed cows??

 I have a funny story.  So, my Nana used to tell this story about how when my mom was a little girl, she used to walk around eating sticks of butter.  {Sorry, Mom}.  That always really grossed me out.  Until recently when I stopped using what I thought was butter, and started using REAL BUTTER.  Omg people, if I wouldn't get totally shamed walking around eating a stick of this butter...I probably would with this stuff.  The stuff is creamy and tasty and omg omg omg!  I imagine this is the kind of butter my child sized mother used to nom on.

Have I totally freaked you out yet?

Anyway, here is The Sophster...I think she was just a little excited about the way her spaghetti tasted. She kept proclaiming "YAY! VEGGIE SPAGHETTI! I LOVE VEGGIE SPAGHETTI!!"

Sunday night was cool in a couple of different ways.  One, my little brother and nephew came over to play and have dinner with us {yay!} and two, mama got a new kitchen gadget!  

I decided to make the lamb roast that was taking up huge amounts of room in our freezer.  I set out to make the Mediterranean Lamb Roast from my Practical Paleo cookbook, but I quickly realized that my {very old and outdated} slow cooker was much too small.  So, I tried the dutch oven {does that name just make you giggle?  It does me!}.  Too small.  Ugh.  What was a girl to do?  Guess I would need that newer, bigger slow cooker now instead of after The Mister leaves for deployment!  Being the awesome, wonderful {fill in all things good here} husband that he is, he took off and brought me home my new slow cooker in record speed!  We ripped open the box, cleaned the cooker out, plopped the lamb roast in....it didn't fit.  Omg this roast was never going to get cooked!

These are the moments when I am so so thankful for Pinterest {do you follow me yet??}.  I found this roasted lamb recipe from the Paleo Foodie blog and I knew that it would be "the one"!  It would have to be, really.  I had all of the stuff to make it and that damn lamb roast was definitely fitting into my roasting pan!!  The recipe doesn't call for it, but I also added about an onion and a half, cut into quarters and shoved down around the roast.

It actually came out pretty amazing.  Easy peasy and really tasty.  I made my cauliflower mash with it and served it with the onions that cooked with the roast.  I didn't think my brother would eat it, but much to my surprise, he cleaned his whole plate!  If I can get my picky brother to eat my food, I must be doing something right!

 The kids had lamb, cauli-mash, grass fed hotdogs, and some banana slices sprinkled with cinnamon. Neither one of them ate their cauli-mash.  Maybe I'll add butter to theirs next time and see if that helps.  I feel like I need to yell "Butter ALL THE THINGS!"

Last night, Tuesday, I went with another easy meal.  We did our Commissary shopping yesterday, so this family was lucky to get dinner out of me at all.  Yeah, I'm pretty lazy on grocery days usually.

I made my asparagus with lemon zest and I made some chicken thighs with bacon and sage.  It came out really really yummy.  I mean really....chicken....wrapped in bacon.  Would you just look at this deliciousness??

It's sooooo simple!  Just take some chicken thighs {I use bone in}, season with s&p and garlic powder, top with a few sage leaves, and wrap in bacon.  I started these on the stove because I like to live dangerously and I infused a couple of large garlic cloves in some bacon grease before adding the chicken.  Cook these puppies for 40 minutes {less time if using boneless}, pop them under the broiler until they start to sizzle and BAM!  You get a husband with a happy tummy!

The Sophster requested more veggie spaghetti.  Who I am to tell her no??  Psshhh!! 

Anyway, that's it!  I am working on some yummy grain-free mug cake recipes {these might be my new favorite things}.  I'll be in the test kitchen {aka the kitchen in my house} some this weekend with The Sophster and Sissy.  Looking forward to sharing some of those soon!

What about you?  What was on your plate this week?  Make anything new and exciting?

Hope you all had a delicious week!

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