What shall we cook today?
There is a moment of realisation for every adult once they leave the childhood nest.....
You now have to decide what to eat for dinner the rest of your life.
I must admit that responsibility freaked me out when we were newly married, and we'd be wondering round the reduced sections of all our local shops feeling lost some nights, wandering what to cook. Then we used to have some fun with it, setting ourselves challenges with a budget limit, or with a specific task.
I will also admit that the naughty thrill of being 'allowed' to have pizza for breakfast or just dessert for dinner has never left me.
Now we have children and we are responsible adults, we have to have a clearer goal what to feed them.
I'm only just realising what it's like once they reach the stage when they are never full. What's with that? I don't remember going through that stage.
They are shooting up like sunflowers, their feet are sprouting out and I can't keep up.
I really recommend a rice cooker if you like eating the dish, we've just recently acquired one for the first time and it's so handy. One day we dropped the ball and didn't have a dinner plan. We had rice prepped for the day so I left the ex chef of the house to create a dish from leftovers. He obliged. It was lovely!
It was a one pot meal consisting of rice, a medley of meat, onions, peas, carrots, and asparagus, tossed in a homemade tomato sauce...there will have been a dozen other ingredients I will not have noticed as I am not a chef.
This week I decided to have a day batch cooking to give myself a head start for April.
Eight hours later there was now four weeks worth of carbs in the freezer.
The children now have a different carb for every day of the week. Savoury biscuits, pizza, chocolate and honey cake, chocolate pancakes, mashed potato pancakes, roast potatoes, and finally rice which we cook on the day.
You may ask what the children were up to during those eight hours, they were all feeling under the weather with this nasty cold circling the community, so it was duvets and movie day.
I ventured upstairs regularly to give them a sample of the next round of carbs I had just finished, including a homemade deep pan pizza. They ventured down for water, calpol and fruit on a regular basis.
They even wanted to do a little bit of schooling which surprised me, considering how they felt. Kira helped me with the pizza dough, reciting her six and three times tables. Sophia wrote out all the freezer labels. Xander took down his toys and were playing colour games with me between English, Spanish and Japanese.
Sophia likes to be given the responsibility to choose dinner sometimes and she's very good at exploring the cupboards, fridge and freezer to create a meal plan. The last time she was asked to this, she chose chilli, mashed potato, and a side of four vegetables.
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