Apr 28th, 2008
Most of the family is down with a lurgi, we have headaches and sore throats and backaches and general miserableness. Caitlin is the only one who seems to be ok. Great start to the school term *sigh* Cooking dinner tonight was a major effort and when Adam came home he said it was a pleasant […]
Apr 14th, 2008
Last week’s plan held up ok-ish. The beef casserole I cooked was one with onions, carrots and green capsicum and cheesy herb dumplings which was a new recipe for the kids so I reckon I can count that as my new meal for the month. I had cooked it before though, many years ago, I’ll […]
Apr 7th, 2008
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve had a menu plan pinned to the cork board in the kitchen and let me tell you it has not been good. We’ve eaten some very odd (shopping not done), late (paralysed by not knowing what to cook and leaving it to the last minute to produce dinner) […]
Mar 4th, 2008
I did something today that I used to think I never would. I let David stay home from the school swimming carnival even though he was in perfect health and hadn’t actually asked to not go. In past years I’ve been well aware that Dave didn’t really want to go. He was certainly never going […]
Mar 2nd, 2008
As usual, firstly a review of last week. What I thought was frozen veal casserole turned out to be beef goulash so that was a bit of a surprise on Thursday (no-one minded though). I still didn’t get a decent grocery shop done early in the week and when I should have been out on […]
Feb 24th, 2008
Um, let’s not talk about how last week went. At least the fact that I didn’t at any point manage to do a proper grocery shop means that there wasn’t any food to waste. Never mind, after all, the best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘men gang aft agley do they not? MondayBaked dinner – lamb […]