While work is still ongoing behind the scenes for the upscaling of my business, normal daily life goes on. I am sure many of you have this same issue.....What's for dinner Mom? Some days I wish someone would invent a pill we could eat instead of making dinner, it would solve so many problems! I’d eat salad and whatever I find in cupboard, but when it comes to feeding family, that just won’t do. ![]() Firstly shopping bag round up begins, I can never understand where they all disappear too it’s like washing socks, one at a time they always leave home! Bags loaded into the back of the car I head up the road to the grocery store with thoughts of culinary delights in store for the family and the shopping list securely placed in my bag, I’m still a pen and pencil kind of person and I like lists. Up and down the aisles I trundle shopping list in hand when my mind goes completely blank, ‘What on earth are we going to eat?’ echoes in my head, like no other thoughts are suddenly home, someone just turned off the lights. How does that happen and I can’t be the only person that happens too. Yes sometimes I plan a menu, sometimes, however that plan changes when no one else wants to eat the same thing, so what do you do? Improvise? There are more improvised shopping days than planned menu days, when that happens it can be dangerous. I walk around scanning the shelves, fridges and freezers, ‘hello I’m here’, but nothing happens. Filling the basket with a few items from my usual list, that won’t add up to a dinner. Lingering in the meat department as if awaiting divine intervention, as if suddenly the mind of a chef would possess me and I could magically whip three key ingredients into a luscious meal that would satisfy the hearty men in my household. Filling the basket as I wander along the aisles and peeking into the other shoppers’ trolleys to see what they are taking home, you never know something might inspire me. Nope nothing, now in slight desperation I call the hubby and ask ‘what would you like for diner love?’ the reply comes swiftly, ‘I don’t know, surprise me!’ Well that didn't help! So being a good Irish woman and mammy I play it safe, I grab the only things that I know they love, after all they are Irish men. So spuds, two veg and meat it is then, shopping done.
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7/9/2018 08:06:08 pm
Most of the time, it's our moms who are assigned to cook great food for us for dinner. We think that the job is easy; it's purely about preparing food and satisfying our cravings. But that's not the whole thing. Our parents would always face the dilemma of knowing what to prepare for us since they want everything to be perfect. They would always face that kind of question in their mind, and they don't know what to do. The only thing I could wish for them is to come up with the best recipe for us so that they wouldn't think about it too much!
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8/14/2018 09:03:37 am
They say the older you get, the less you get interested in romantic relationships. At first I really don't agree but I noticed that now in my thirties, I become less concerned with how sweet people could get and I am more worried with their capacity to keep their families stomachs full. I think it is more important to provide food and shelter rather than be romantic or physically appealing. I am not saying we are more concerned with how much money they are making, but actually it's how much money they allot for food over everything else.
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8/8/2018 07:22:08 pm
Vegetables and fruits are really good if you are having a diet or strict eating schedule. It is actually effective even if you have just tried it in a month. My mom always makes salad for us with different dressings and what I love the most is her potato with carrot salad. I do not know what is the dressing, but all I can say is that it was the best dressing I have ever tasted. I know some restaurants have it too, but my mom's so different.
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