Marathon Cooking Session

The entire afternoon/evening was spent in the kitchen. Y I MISS YOU!!!! It's just not the same, to marathon cook, without you. Please come back!!!! Here's what was accomplished:
- sloppy joes (4 batches worth) all packaged in small packages and frozen, B loves this stuff and it makes for an easy meal when he wants to cook for himself.
- Fire Station Chicken (2 crockpots worth) two meals packaged for us, one for mom and one for the woman at work that we are taking turns cooking for. This is a new recipe, so hopefully we like it.
- Roasted Chicken Lasagna (4 pans worth) three frozen for us and one for the woman I work this. This is an old favorite and will provide us a lot of meals.
- Chicken Salad (1 batch) with the leftover roasted chicken. B loves this in wrappers for lunch meals. And since we pack 6 lunches a week for him, it will be a nice change from what he's been eating.
- Pork Chop ala Orange (4 batches) I frozen two meals, put one up for mom, we ate one for dinner and there is one for work. This is a new recipe and we both loved it. I think it is all in the gravy. Yummy!
- Blueberry muffins (1 batch) - no brainer here. Everybody loves these. Secret is the lemon.
- Cranberry Orange muffins (2 batches) - some frozen for B's breakfast, some for mom, some for the lady at work. They are good too.
- Thai Chicken Wings (1 batch) - these are marinating and we'll throw them on the grill tomorrow night when we get home from work. There's enough for 2 meals.
- Green Chile and Cheese Corn Bread (2 batches) savory item, new recipe. The jury is still out. I wasn't crazy about them, didn't think they were cooked enough. Second batch is still in the oven and should be different. There will be enough for us, mom and the lady at work.
- Steamed BBQ Pork Buns (1 batch) these are one of Bs favorite. There is enough for us and mom.
- Steamed BBQ Chicken Buns (1 batch) never made with bbq chicken, but I'm sure they will be good. Again, froze them all for quick meals.

Needless to say, I'm beat. Figure I should sleep good - but the problem is my knees, ankle and feet are already complaining. Once the last batch of cornbread is out I can finish the dishes (which there are not many because I do them as I go along). I've got a check book to finish and a few other things to do. I figure I'll flop into bed and hope that morning doesn't come too soon.

Y, are you cooking again??? You never mentioned how the cooking on the road went.

Anyway...we'll be eating good in the coming weeks. And with the hours I keep it really does help to have the base of dinner done. Just get home and while it is warming I can make salad, change my clothes and we eat.

Dreams of sweet and savory things!

Saturday Work....

... and I don't mean at the office. It's fall, my favorite season!!!!! With that comes flannel and fleece, but also the work of getting ready for winter. Today, actually last night, we decided that Saturday we would be productive - we chose chores over the Ren. Festival and the BBQ cook off festival (what were we thinkin'?).

Our day started by pulling on the hoodies and heading outside - chair put away, lawn started, leaves blown, generator tested, garage cleaned, patio stuff put away, boat pulled. Ha, funny story about that - it is windy here so there is a pretty good chop on the lake. B decided he'd drive the boat over so with swim trunks and a hoodie on over he headed (cell phone in pocket for a reason i am uncertain). There are two ramps on this lake. You would think 60 degree weather, with a chop, there would be no one around. WRONG!!! The ramp had a back up of trucks/trailers a mile long. So as B sat on the jet ski, texting, we waited our turn.

Anyway....B still has a few things on his chore list to do. I went to the grocery store. Last night I planned a marathon cooking session and it was time to get the ingredients. Tell me again why I went to Meijer on a Saturday?! Oh yea, I work during the week. lol

So now....my counters and kitchen floor are filled with all the things I need to get cooking. Which is exactly what I plan to do. That will take up the rest of my day, for certain.

So what are you doing today????