My lease has ended here in Mankato and it was time to make the switch to moving back home. I will be finishing up my last couple classes online while looking for a full time job. Now I get to enjoy some yummy home cooked meals by my new roommate, my mom.
Here is my final week of meals living down in Mankato..so sad to see an end to an era.
I unfortunatley don’t have any pictures of the process of the meal being made because my lovely boyfriend had it ready for me while I was at work but..I will still tell you all how he made it 🙂
He cut up the chicken into small cubes and pan fried them. By him doing that it made it easier to assemble the actual salad when it was time.
We typically buy romaine hearts for our lettuce and lately have been getting the organic kind from the store. I don’t notice much of a difference but I am glad we’re trying to make the switch!
Next he cut up some cherry tomatoes, added the dressing (we used Olive Gardens Italian dressing) topped it with croutons and sat down to enjoy!
Chicken salads are a great, quick and easy meal to make that everyone will enjoy. You can customize it to your own liking by adding whatever dressing you like best.
Nothing says comfort food more than spaghetti and that is exactly what we were craving that night! The process of making it is so simple a child could make it but here is our very basic way.
Boil the noodles until you can throw at the wall and it will stick.
Cook the meatballs for 15-20 minutes and then add your desired sauce.
Assemble how you wish, toast some garlic bread and there you have it! Another simple yet delicious meal.
We usually buy a frozen one from the store, pop it in the oven for about 70 minutes and we have a nice, juicy pork roast.
As you can tell by now, we like mashed potatoes and asparagus with most of our meals. We boiled the asparagus until you could easily stick a fork through it and had our favorite microwave mashed potatoes.
It was a fun last meal in the house we’ve lived at all year in Mankato and we were sad to say goodbye!
It was Friday, so had to get the Friday Fish Fry. This was hands down some of the best fish I have had in a long time. You could choose if you wanted 2,3 or 4 pieces and I got 3. I did not think they would be this big!
Along with it, they had shoestring french fries and steamed broccoli.
And that’s it! That concludes our week, and our final week in Mankato. It was a bittersweet ending, but I am looking forward to what this next chapter of life will bring. Cheers!
