What's for dinner?

What's for dinner?

Is the one question that I anticipate (with fear and trepidation) at the same time, every day, without fail!

For to serve up a nutritious and delicious meal, while catering for 5 individual tastes and idiosyncrasies is no mean feat.

Accommodating dairy, nut and egg free for Precious, Special's aversion to "chunks" and "things touching" a love of vegetables for Gorgeous, The Man's partiality to sauces, and my interest in new tastes and sensations, it is a wonder that I am able to produce any meal for us to feast on. 

Let alone 7 nights a week!

So in order to tick all the boxes, and expose my children to cuisine that breaks the "meat and 3 veg" mould I grew up on, I find myself...

trawling through cookbooks
experimenting
replacing
blending
separating
and serving tomato and soy sauce as condiments

All of this discipline and dedication can be rewarding, exhausting and disheartening at the same time.  Knowing that despite my efforts it is unlikely that I am able to simultaneously satisfy The Mob.

So it was with great pleasure the other morning, when I raced out the door, 2 kids in tow, and left the The Man alone with the crock pot, a bunch of ingredients and an open cookbook to decipher and follow.

And even greater pleasure on my return, welcomed by the aromas of dinner, and savouring the knowledge that when asked the age old question "what's for dinner?"

I would be able to say, with glee... "I don't know, ask Dad"!


How does your dinner menu rate?  Do tell!

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