Greetings my friends, our meal planning session is early this week. A little meal planning early will help us all have more time to spend with our families as we celebrate this spiritual season of Easter. 

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 788 and Easter Greetings to you all! We are so busy getting ready for the big Easter weekend here at the cottage. We are expecting a large family gathering, we are so excited to see everyone. It is really good to see each of you today and share the awesome features from last weeks party. I can't wait to see what you will be sharing with us today and thanks so much for coming to the party today!

  Hello everyone, our beautiful spring weather has temporarily left us and winter has returned. Winters return sent us directly to the gardens to secure the plants from the strong northern winds coming in at this time. We will be warming some through the week ending with a lovely Easter Weekend. We will be making our meal plans according to the cooler season.

Hello everyone and welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 787! This is our last week of the month and our Top Ten Features Party. You readers made some great choices last week that are featured today! I am looking forward to the party today the awesome links that you will be sharing. Come on in the back patio we are set up for the party outside today, it is a beautiful spring day! We have saved you a seat, enjoy the party!

  Our Strawberry Salad with Honey Balsamic Dressing brings fresh flavors of spring and summer. The combination of fresh garden vegetables are a perfect match for the delicious honey balsamic dressing. This salad is a very special addition to any occasion. It will go from soup and salad to a formal holiday dinner. 

Spring meal plans are great, a refreshing start after a long winter. I am taking advantage of the beautiful spring day and sitting on the screen porch, and I am so happy to welcome you to our meal planning session today.

This Slow Cooker Cherry Cobbler is so easy to put together and the flavor is delicious. This cobbler is a great go to dessert for the pot luck that lets yo have a warm dessert, folks just love it. Make it for family and friends for game day, it is a winner. 

  Hello everyone and welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 786! We are so excited to see you today. Our community is in the middle of Spring Break with many folks that had planned on travel are unable to do so. They have really been enjoying some of your recipes, just looking to fill in their fun and food for Spring Break. I sure hope you will enjoy our features from last weeks party. Thanks so much for coming to the party today!

  Hello everyone and welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 785. We are so happy to see you here at the party today.  

Our Pistachio Cake Recipe is one of my husbands favorite. He gets so excited when he knows it is on the meal plan for the week. This is a very simple cake and loaded with flavor. It really takes just a few ingredients with a little pudding and some nuts to make this one of your family favorites.

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 784! I am so happy to see you here today and sure you make into the cottage before the storm arrives. Yes the spring rains are starting and we really need the rain here. We have some great features from last weeks party that we hope you enjoy! I can't wait to see what you will be sharing with us today and thanks so much for coming to our party!

  I have always been a seasonal cook and enjoy the transitions of the seasons. We grow our own vegetables here at the cottage, which allows us to have either fresh, home canned or frozen vegetables available the year round. What we don't have available here, we usually find at one of our local farmers market. These are some of our favorites of the season, that perhaps will help you in making a choice of seasonal foods. 

Here we are sitting on the screen porch the first day of March with the temperatures in the 80's! We are truly enjoying this great welcome party for March! I am always excited to make the meal plans for March, it gives me a chance to visit my Irish heritage. We will be having some family favorites and looking forward to the amazing Irish food!

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 783, we are so happy to see you here today. I am so happy to present our readers most popular Top Ten Post from last weeks party. I know you will love these features!  I hope that some of you are beginning to dig out from the snow and the rest of us are still enjoying a lovely spring break. Come on in and find your place at the table, we saved you a seat!

  This cheeseburger pie was on my dinner table many times when my kids were younger. It is a very flavorful  pie. It has very few ingredients and takes little time to prepare. We top it off with all the trimmings of a great burger. The recipe is still a family favorite, my Grandkids are now making the recipe for my Great Grandkids!

  Hello everyone and welcome to our meal planning session for next week. One of the first things on my meal planning check list is to check the weather that we will be having for the next week.

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 782, it is great to see you here today. We have enjoyed all the holidays this month. We had the Super Bowl, Valentines Day and Mardi Gras, WoW! Now we can enjoy a slower pace for a bit. We have fantastic features from last week party that I hope you will enjoy!  I am ready to get this party started so come on in the cottage, we have saved you a seat at the table!

The flavor of this Coca Cola Pot Roast is worth the wait. The seasons so carefully blended and slow cooked make this a very special pot roast. The roast is so tender you won't need a knife to carve it. The vegetables are so tender and full of the flavors of this slow cooker full of goodness!

Welcome to our meal planning session, we are having a rain soaked weekend here in East Texas. What a great time to sip some coffee and warm up with some great recipes. It was warmer earlier in the week which enabled me to have fun with my Veggie  Pod. I planted 50 onion sets in the Pod and can't wait to watch them grow. I am so happy that you are here for our meal planning session today, its more fun when you are here. 

Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 781. This week we are celebrating Valentine and Mardi Gras! Wow so many celebrations in such a short time. It is so good to see you here today bringing delightful post to share with all of us. I sure hope you enjoy the featured post from our party last week. 

  Our basket is filled with food that you may find in your own winter garden and for sure most farmers vegetable markets. We love all the root vegetables that we have available during this season. We have some fun events to celebrate during this month of love.  

Welcome to our meal planning session for the week. Here we are in February the month of love! It will be fun planning meals for this month as we have Super Bowl Sunday, Valentines Day, then we don't want to forget Madri Gras. That is a lot of amazing food cuisines to pack into such a short month. We will meet the challenge and have fun doing it!

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 780! We are so excited to welcome you to our fun party to kick off the month of Love!  

This is one of my husbands favorite cookies as well as one of our most requested by close friends and family. 

Hello everyone, I am so excited to be sharing our meal planning session with you today. We are so grateful to report that we came through the storm and did not loose power one single time!

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 779 with the Top Ten Features from last weeks party! It is our custom on our last party of the month, for our readers to choose the Top Ten Views from the  last party. We have some outstanding features for you to enjoy today!

  It is my pleasure to share one of our favorites here at the cottage. This recipe was originally printed in my cookbook, Miz Helen's Kitchen Table.

  If you are able to see this meal plan today, that means you still have power in the middle of what is supposed to be a really bad winter storm. We have been preparing for the storm for several days now and at this writing, we think we are ready. 

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday 778, we are so happy that you are here today. We are so excited about presenting our features from last weeks party.

We love our Tex-Mex flavors here at the cottage. This is one of my go-to slow cooker recipes that I love.

  Hello everyone and welcome to our meal planning session for this week. I am all warm and cozy with a cup of hot chocolate and more than a few marshmallows! I have been looking at recipes to get some ideas of what we might want for this week, and so far it all looks so good. I promise to keep it balanced and not go to far over good healthy guidelines.

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 777 what a great week it is going to be! It is so good to see you here today and I sure hope you enjoy the party!

  I placed my Apple Braised Beef Short Ribs on my meal plan for this week, which is a part of my weekly publication  Whats For Dinner Next Week, 776 .  We love this recipe and always serve it on top of my Old Fashioned Polenta. I just realized that I never did share the recipe for the polenta until I got a sweet note from a young homemaker asking for the recipe. Mary thank you so much for asking for the recipe so that I could share with all of you!

It is really good to see you here with us today. Meal planning is a fun time for me, it lets me be very creative about what I serve my family and friends.

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 776. I think the holidays are over, we seem to be getting back to our normal routine of living.  

Our Pepper Jelly Pimento Cheese Cups are just the appetizer that we love to serve. These are easy to make and they can be made ahead of time which is a real plus. You will get a bite of savory, sweet and topped with a little heat. It doesn't get much better than this. I have never been able to eat just one of these special cups!

Hello everyone, I am excited to make our first meal plan of 2026! I sure hope you have enjoyed your holiday season. I am ready to get my household back to its daily structure and organized way of life. Meal planning is a big part of that here at the cottage.

Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 775 and our first party for 2026! I sure hope you had a fantastic New Years celebration. We had a great time here at the cottage and enjoying parties around our community.