Menu Plan Monday

"Oh taste and see that the LORD is good..." Ps. 34:8

This week around after dinner each night we will be incorporating some of Noel Piper's Holy Week ideas found here. We started it this weekend, and it is quite meaningful. I am looking forward to our special time together each night. The candles and readings are really helping us to focus our hearts as we approach Easter. I highly recommend it if you're not already using a Holy Week devotional. It's not too late to incorporate it into your family's table time or after-dinner time this week.

Here's what our family will be enjoying for dinner each night:

Monday: Baked Potato Soup, salad, garlic bread

Tuesday: Out to eat for my father-in-law's birthday (Happy birthday, "Big Luke!")

Wednesday: Chicken and dumplings, fried okra

Thursday: Left-overs

Friday: Passover Seder meal with our Family Bible Fellowship (Sunday school class)

Weekend: Easter dinner- ham, spinach salad, green beans, rolls, blueberry-banana pie

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Crock Pot Ham (originally from mamaliscious)

5 lb. bone in fully cooked ham
1/3 cup apple juice
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 Tbsp. honey
1 Tbsp. mustard
1/8 tsp. pepper

Place ham in 4-5 quart crockpot and pour apple juice over ham. Combine brown sugar, honey, mustard, and pepper in a small bowl and blend well. Spread over ham. Cover crockpot and cook on low for 6-8 hours. Slice and serve. 12 servings

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Spinach Salad

6 hard-boiled eggs, diced

8-10 slices of bacon , cooked and chopped

2 bags baby spinach, destemmed and washed

Dressing:

1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 tsp. garlic salt

3/4 tsp. salt

1/4 cup vinegar

2 heaping tbsp. mayonnaise

Whip dressing until smooth (I do this in the blender). Toss just before serving.

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Blueberry Banana Pie

1 8 oz. cream cheese (softened)

1 8 oz. Cool Whip

3 bananas, sliced

1 cup sugar

1 can blueberry pie filling

2 graham cracker pie shells

Mix cream cheese and sugar until creamy. Add 1/2 of Cool Whip and blend well. Layer banana slices on bottom of pie crust, then put a layer of cream cheese mixture. Next, put a layer of Cool Whip. Refrigerate until top is set, then spoon blueberries on top.

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Have a blessed, set-apart week!