This is what I hear EVERY day sometime between the hours of 4 and 5 pm. I also usually decide what we are having sometime between the hours of 4 and 5 pm. Yes, I did mean of the same day. I know what you are thinking....and I agree...I do need to get my act together. There are some days when I am totally organized and know what we are having well in advance. I've tried making menus and food planning. It works for a bit but then we get a craving for something that's not on the menu that night and it turns into an ugly downward spiral of frequent shopping trips and last minute dinners.
I always have lots of fruits, veggies, meat and pasta on hand and I can always make something but for the most part I'm real "fly by the seat of your pants" when it comes to the evening meal (which is funny because I've been desribed as psycho control freak in other parts of my life...true story). Of course, football Sunday food will be planned several days in advance...that is sacred stuff.
I do promise, we do more around here than eat. Like today we went to school and the book fair after school. But then when we got home...I heard..."what's for dinner?" and I said biscuits and gravy and eggs. Yeah breakfast for dinner...super fatty, way not good for you breakfast for dinner....it was SOOO good. (Just as a by the way, I recently had a physical and my cholesterol is 153...I was told that's good....must be all the exercise I'm doing.....stop laughing!!) Anyway, when I told them what was for dinner people in my family actually started cheering...no, not with pom poms, don't be so silly!
Ok back to dinner...I'm sharing this with you all because along side my homemade biscuits and homemade sausage gravy we had eggs....but not any old eggs....we had Ouef a la Coque. Now it helps to know that this is an egg boiled for exactly three minutes...then placed in a fancy dancy egg holder called a coquetier (these are from France, because we know "people" who can get these for us and they make eating them way more fun). You just remove them from the boiling water, hack a little slice of the shell and egg off the top and then dip strips of toast in them. Charlie and Brooke can go through a few eggs each. It's yummy!!
See... you just dip....
And eat....
Doesn't get any easier than that. 
5 comments:
I am usually very jealous of your meals.. but, I think that slimey eggs is where I draw the line... But, I would push through if it got me to the weekend food... tonight we eat hawaiian pork and poke (ahi tuna)-- some would turn their nose at that.. but, Sunday's-- of course we will have bean dip!! So, I get it.....
I love making breakfast for dinner!! Some people just don't get that concept, but hey, if Cracker Barrel can do it, so can my family!! I also hear the "what's for dinner?" question at that time of day. My response....food! What did we have last night? Chicken cheesesteak sandwiches...from my Everyday Food magazine. So yummy!!
I would like to one up you on the dinner front!! Last night Chris and I had left over pizza and Ramen noodles. Cause quite frankly I did not feel like cooking a big meal. Ah the joys of no kids....ok maybe I have one big one!!
Hey thee's never enough said for Bologna sandwichs. Mustard and cheese, cp of coffe and a popcicle for desert. No cooking no clean up whats not to like
Kudos to all of you moms out there who cook dinner for your families!
For me: It's not my son or my husband who begins to ask "What's for dinner?" It's me starting at 5pm when my husband walks through the door. I'm not a cook. That's my husband...he's into trying new recipes and rubs on all kinds of meat. I know...I'm very fortunate! But I do cook a meal once in awhile & bake much more often.
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