I am so sorry I have been negligent in updating this blog. For nearly a year I have been consistent, never missing a day. That is until we decided to move AND adopt a baby at the same time.
Hopefully the move will come first so we are in the painful process of packing and to be honest my mind has been focused on boxes, checklists, paint swatches and maintaining some shred of sanity. I have, however, been cooking. My step daughter arrived a little over two weeks ago and amongst the chaos I have managed to place a home cooked meal on the table nearly every night. To my surprise she has loved every one of them…she is 9 months pregnant so I am not sure if that is a true indication of how tasty they really were. When I was pregnant anything that stopped breathing for any length of time was fair game to snack on.
I did overhear her telling her mom “I can’t believe that Niki cooks everything from scratch and it’s actually good” guess the whole scratch thing is a little foreign to her because her in depth explanation covered the most basic scratch cooking tip of making homemade pizza crust. She went on to tell her how I make my own bread, spaghetti sauce and all baked goods. I guess filling her in on the likes of sourdough bread and homemade yogurt may set her off the edge.
On to this weeks menu:
Monday – baked spaghetti from the freezer
Tuesday – crock pot Cornish hens
Wednesday – taco soup
Thursday – potato soup topped with sour cream and crushed taco chips
Friday – take out pizza, the whole crew is coming over to strip WALLPAPER allowing my painter to start slapping on some coats of paint. I am aiming for the upstairs to be completed before Monday allowing plenty of time to air the place out before the rest of the family sleeps there.
Saturday – baked oatmeal
Sunday – shepards pie with skillet corn…that is if I can locate my cast iron pan, at this point it’s not looking good.
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