May 21, 2007
Family meals
I’ve only just realized today that I didn’t cook about half of the food I had planned for my son’s visit. The only “big meal” I did was a pork roast with fresh herbs from my garden, which I served with baked yams. I didn’t do the Mongolian Beef or Adobo that I had ingredients for. I still have a freezer full of chicken breasts, steaks and enough veggies to last me halfway through the summer. I’ll have to find some way to use up a pantry full of baking ingredients, too. Cookie recipes will have to wait until his next visit, which will hopefully be during the holidays next winter.
It’s not that we didn’t eat while he was here. We ate quite well - at restaurants. I’m not sure if he’s just gotten used to his bachelor way of having most of his meals out or if he was trying to save me from laboring in the kitchen while he was here, but we ate a lot of our meals out. I finished off the last of the “doggie bags” of leftovers last night. I wonder what it will take to convince him that I like to cook and want to do that when he’s around. I can’t imagine having him here for the holidays and not doing all of the traditional cooking that should come with that. Maybe if I start working on him now I’ll be able to bring him around to my way of thinking by then.
[tags]cooking, family meals, family visits[/tags]
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