Okay, I'm back.
Yeah, I know you're wondering: it was chicken in a pita pocket. I cooked the chicken pieces with onion, curry, garlic, and mushrooms, put it in the pita and topped it with light sour cream, lettuce and feta. Not half bad, relatively healthy. Could have used some tomato and cucumber.
I should clarify my earlier comment by saying, it's not cooking that I hate, it's cooking dinner. The fact is, dinner comes at the worst possible time of the day. You're tired, you're out of imagination, if it's a hot day, it's the hottest time of all, everyone else is tired and cranky and absolutely NO ONE is patient.
Then, there's the fact that there are so many more interesting things to do at that time of day! Watch TV, play in the garden, visit with my neighbor Linda, take a nap,--pretty much anything but going in to the kitchen, pulling all kinds of things out of cupboards, putting them in a pot, stirring them over some hot flame and spooning them on to plates. Ick!
I tried to explain this dilemma to my family once. I told them that I would be happy to get up as early as needed and make them a big fancy breakfast every morning. Oatmeal, waffles, sausage, eggs---I'd do it all. Then I'd go to work and when we came home each night, we could all sit around the TV set and eat cereal like one big happy family. I thought this was a brilliant idea, but they snorted at me. (Except for Delicate Flower, who usually sides with me on whatever is easiest to do.) I was all too horribly unconventional for the guys and more than they could bear.
Don't cook tonight, call Chicken Delight!
It was working for me.
At least it's not as much of a time-waster as grocery shopping. I'll share the flawed theory behind that one next time.
2 comments:
I think the cereal idea is fantastic.
(Shhhh. We do this sometimes. The noisy boys think it's hilarious.)
I used to always get away with it when they were younger and Teacher Husband went out of town for work. (OF course, that was before he was a teacher--no where to go now!! They'll still go for it, but not every night like I want them to!!!!)
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