So I cooked a real dinner last night, and it wasn't too hard. Once I gave up on the hope of having dinner on the table by 6pm, I just started when I got home at 5:50, and when it was done, we ate.
I made tuna noodle casserole, since I have lots of cans of tuna from a BJs purchase. I checked online the day before for recipes - never searched online for recipes before - a great resource for any of us newbies. I specifically looked for recipes that used Cream of Mushroom soup, because I have a lot of that as well. I used to make baked chicken with cream of mushroom soup, but the kids tired of it - and I stopped buying chicken from the grocery store - and I ended up with more cream of mushroom soup than I knew what to do with.
Once I had planned to make it, arriving home and discovering no children to cook for didn't stop me. I just plowed ahead and made it, a quick recipe and then popped it in the oven. And low & behold, hungry children arrived home just when it was coming out of the oven. How about that!
Another thing about cooking. It takes practice and trying different recipes. That one was a little too cheesy - I was using a couple different recipes together. Next time a little less cheese.
Tonight I'm going to try vegetable stir fry - I have lots of vegetables from the mass local food pickup & farmers market last Friday, and I'm going away this weekend to the NOFA summer conference, so I need to use them up. Wish me luck!
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