Country and Corgis: Menu Plan Week 6

Happy Presidents Day! I hope everyone had a great weekend. If you were lucky enough to celebrate with someone you love on Valentine's Day, I hope you were spoiled! If you weren't with someone special, I hope you spoiled yourself!

I certainly was spoiled! I had a great weekend out and about with my hubby. We had some great quality time together, and of course we ate a bunch of great food! I had steak 3 days in a row. I haven't had that much red meat probably ever! We ate at Texas de Brazil, which is a churrascaria. If you're not familiar with what that is, it's like a mobile meat buffet! Gauchos prepare a myriad of traditional meats cooked over an open flame on giant kebab skewers then they bring the meats to your table. It's awesome! Then on Friday we ate at Melting Pot. We enjoyed our dinner of filet and lobster tail in a really cozy secluded booth. We got to cuddle and take our time really enjoying our meal. Dessert was the best part. We had a dark chocolate praline bourbon fondue with fresh fruits, brownies, and cake. Soooo yummy. Saturday we got loud and dirty at the Monster Jam, then got dressed up and had a great steak dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. See? I told you I was spoiled!

This week has a couple of big events going on too. Tuesday is Mardi Gras, the last big Hurrah! before the Lenten season begins. We have a couple of traditions that we honor with our family. My side of the family always gets a King Cake from a local bakery that makes the best cake ever! E's family traditionally celebrated with eating Paczki. Paczki (pronounced Punch-key) are traditional Polish pastries eaten to mark the beginning of Lent. We'll be doing both. This only happens once a year, so no excuse not to celebrate. Then Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the official start to the Lenten season, aka Fish Fry Season. We take our fish fries very seriously here in Pittsburgh. Every Friday you'll find lines out the doors of Catholic churches around the city. The best fish fries batter and fry their own fish, and the really good ones have homemade pierogies! This week is a bonus week, we get a fish fry on Wednesday AND Friday. E and I travel all around the city every Friday in search of the best fish. We will seriously drive close to an hour to get fish. So I'll be changing my posting schedule up a little bit to accommodate our fish adventures. Instead of posting recipes on Friday, I'll be posting on Thursday.

Well I definitely need to get back to the daily grind after that epic chowdown. Here's our meal plan for the week.

Monday:

Buffalo Grilled Stuffed Chicken Breasts with Cajun Tater Tots and Maque Choux