With my husband's retirement, he's been a little freer with opinions about what we should have for dinners, most of which includes some kind of fried meat....and he's more than willing to help with the cooking. Now, you need to keep in mind that he's capable of navigating his way around the grill and campfire easily. In the house, the only way he really operates is with the stove turned on to "High" and a lot of oil/butter/bacon grease splattering everywhere. I appreciate his efforts to help out, I really do. I'd just really like it if he turned the heat down a couple of notches...and then clean up the stove when he's done. We're working on that. He cooked antelope steaks one evening for dinner. I was really hoping he'd grill them, but the wind was just howling that night, so that wasn't happening. Then he went fishing and brought home an idea for fish tacos from the guy he went with. Of course they involved frying the fish. The recipe's also going to require a little tweaking.
In the meantime, my daughter called wanting to come home for a few extra days. She's been avoiding chocolate while nursing the babies, and has asked for gingersnaps every trip she's made up here with those boys. My family are big gingersnap fans. I guess if she can't have her preferred chocolate chip, she'll settle for the boys' favorite.
I'm not anti-gingersnap....really I'm not. They're just a little more labor-intensive than regular drop cookies with the rolling the dough into balls and then rolling the balls in sugar before baking them. It's a little hard to get that accomplished when cuddling fussy boys. My solution this go-round was making them ahead and freezing them. So when she got here this weekend, there were some already made. Go, Me.
I also pulled the base for a Chicken Pot Pie out of the freezer one evening. Truly comfort food at its finest. Since my daughter is here and her husband stayed for the weekend, the leftovers didn't last long. Really good stuff.
A couple of nights were "fend for yourself" because of my husband's schedule, and there were a couple of new recipe tried that will be coming. This coming week, my daughter and the babies will still be here, but her husband has headed home to finish up his last college semester, and my husband is chasing critters, imagine that. That means food prep will theoretically be quick and easy....theoretically.
Nice job, Ma! You got skills. Baby spanking skills, multitasking skills, nunchuck skills...
Posted by: AP Man | April 27, 2021 at 10:31 AM