Weekly Meal Plan Menu (April 25-May 1, 2016)

Gah! This week has been bonkers! Which means having a plan for this coming week is all the more necessary--and eeee this week's plan involves one of my new faves (THOSE PIEROGIES!) plus a bunch of other goodies from my fellow bloggers! You're gonna love it!

This week’s meal plan was brought you to by:

Foodtastic Mom | The Spiffy Cookie | Big Bear's Wife | The Pajama Chef | Pies and Plots | The Cooking Actress

Something Saturdays (4/23/16)

I had SO MUCH fun working my first wedding last weekend! It was an awesome learning experience and such a pretty day and I can't wait for my next one! 

Monday I had intentions to get a bunch of stuff done but...I ended up getting food poisoning. And then, before I knew that's what it was, I gave Michael the 2nd half of my sandwich aaand then I spent Tues/Wed dealing with his food poisoning.

Ugh. Things are starting to get back to normal around here, though! PLUS I got the shots back from a photo shoot I did a couple weeks ago with Jay Kossman Photography, here are a few:

{Easy} Salted Praline Pecan Clusters

Look...I'm as Yankee as it gets. No one in my family is from the South or ever has been. I've lived in Ohio and NYC. I'm Italian and Irish. I think the Civil War did in fact end 150+ years ago. I don't like sweet tea.

Buuut sometimes I say y'all. And I love comfort food. And I love pralines.

So...Southerners...can you just like let me sometimes be one of you? In the land of pralines, at least?

That said...I'm 99% sure these are not traditional pralines. I've actually had a few pralines and these have very little in common with them. But...like I said...what do I know? And regardless, this recipe is insanely easy and yields DELICIOUS little pecan caramel-y clusters!

And you know what the best part of these "pralines" is? Ok....well...the best part is the taste.

But do you know the SECOND best part?? You make this recipe by just putting some stuff together and throwing it in the microwave! And...that's mostly it. Then you spoon some of the mixture onto a silpat or wax paper or something and sprinkle it with salt and YOU'RE DONE! This is actually a pretty dangerous situation we're all in now. Because we can have these YUMMALICIOUS lovelies so quickly and so easily. It's bonkers.

And seriously....they're so rich. And salty-sweet. And crunchy. It's like...pecans covered in a hardened salted caramel or butterscotch sauce...sorta. They're good, my friends. SO GOOD. That's all you need to know.