LOML had the idea at breakfast this morning of polling everyone, including grandparents, for an idea for a meal to have this week. From this we constructed this week's menu.
Tonight, pasta with meat and tomato sauce (not really a bolognese, but that style): tomorrow, beef in guinness stew (for both the pasta sauce and the stew I'll be splitting the batch in two, so one can have mushrooms in, and the other can be without them): Tuesday we go to friends for dinner: Wednesday we get chicken soup with rice: Thursday is pork chops and salad, and for Friday, naturally enough, fish and chips. Saturday and Sunday will get, between them, breaded chicken breasts one night, and pasta with sausage and peppers the other.
I thought that the idea was a stroke of genius, since LOML's parents have various food likes and dislikes, and it got them, and the children, involved in planning the food menu. Of course, it could be that it doesn't work in the long term, but perhaps it will become a Sunday morning tradition.
One nice feature of it was that I was able to think about what to prepare today: the pasta sauce for tonight is simmering on the stove, the stew has spent some time cooking low and slow in the oven, the stock is simmering for Wednesday's soup: LOML is preparing garlic bread for tonight with a loaf of bread from yesterday, and bread for tomorrow is rising in a bowl. Quite a productive afternoon of cooking!
Yours, sliced, diced and still as nice,
N.
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