Saturday, May 03, 2008
One of the reasons I love blogging is because it connects me to a world of other mothers who are struggling just the same as me to survive, one day at a time. Before blogging ever became a real thing, Mark and I were trying to set up a website where I could post all the things I discovered day by day that I thought, made mothering (and running a household) a little bit easier. I wanted to post everything from great places to visit with your kids to kid-friendly recipes, good children's books, fabulous toys and easy crafts to do with your kids. I know there are a million websites out there with the exact same stuff, but because I struggled so much as a first time mommy, I wanted to give back, to share the things that had helped me survive. And over the past several years of blogging, that's exactly what I've tried to do.
Anyway, I just spent several hours in the kitchen this fine Saturday afternoon, cooking. Yup, just cooking. Everything from Chocolate Espresso Cheesecake to Funeral Potatoes, Roasted Chicken, Meatloaf and Tacos. Why? Because I think spending two hours cooking five meals and cleaning up the kitchen once is better than spending an hour every day cooking and cleaning up the kitchen five times. It just makes sense. Do I do it all the time? No. Like once every six months. But I like the idea of it. Anyway, as I was cooking meal after meal for the next week I had this really great idea. What if, for the next week, we all posted what we're having for dinner on our blogs complete with what side dishes we're serving and the recipes for making them all? Say if just eight of us posted this next week's menu--that would be two months' worth of meal plans. That's two months of not having to figure out what's for dinner. There's nothing I hate more than trying to figure out what to cook and we all get tired of the same recipes week after week. So why not help each other out?
Anyway, so how about it? All in favor--post a comment with your blog address and then for the next five to seven days somewhere on your blog, post what you're cooking and the recipes too. Or, you can always post the recipes on Hey Mikey Likey (my family's online recipe book) and just link to them from your blog. That way you'll always have them handy, whether you're at home or away. Here's hoping it works and we all end up spending less time planning what's for dinner and more time playing with our kids (or putting our feet up--whichever you need more of course!) And just to get us all started, here's my first meal of the week:
Butter-n-Herb Chicken with Asparagus (no recipe, just steam in the microwave), Quadruple Berry Salad (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, sweetened with a little sugar and topped with whipped cream if you like) and Glazed Blueberry Biscuits.
posted by Shana # 2:40 PM 
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