Comments on: TGIF http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/tgif/ Adventures in post-partum recovery. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:54:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kate http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/tgif/comment-page-1/#comment-641 Kate Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:05:35 +0000 http://www.babylune.com/tgif/#comment-641 Oh the crock pot! Memories of my very own working mother and how we used to eat. Irish stew. Oh the crock pot! Memories of my very own working mother and how we used to eat. Irish stew.

]]> By: Kerri http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/tgif/comment-page-1/#comment-640 Kerri Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:56:09 +0000 http://www.babylune.com/tgif/#comment-640 Oh! I forgot, too, to mention the ever-faithful Crock Pot. Onions, carrots, celery w/a little water and a few spices and chicken, soup by the time you get home! And if you don't have time to prepare it all in the morning, stick it all in the pot the night before, pop it in the fridge, then stick it in the Crock Pot in the morning. Roasts, all kinds of stuff! Okay, I'll go now... :D Oh! I forgot, too, to mention the ever-faithful Crock Pot. Onions, carrots, celery w/a little water and a few spices and chicken, soup by the time you get home! And if you don’t have time to prepare it all in the morning, stick it all in the pot the night before, pop it in the fridge, then stick it in the Crock Pot in the morning. Roasts, all kinds of stuff! Okay, I’ll go now… :D

]]> By: kbaggott http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/tgif/comment-page-1/#comment-639 kbaggott Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:45:22 +0000 http://www.babylune.com/tgif/#comment-639 Pancakes I can do in a flash! Thanks for the idea Kerri. I know my husband can make homemade frenchfries while on vacation and bean soup for Christmas Eve, but other than those two occassions he is perfectly happy to live on bread and cheese. And Mike, yes, job lots for dinner would help. I'm also going to try pre-cutting a load of carrots and other vegetables to have at the ready. Thanks for the tip. Pancakes I can do in a flash! Thanks for the idea Kerri. I know my husband can make homemade frenchfries while on vacation and bean soup for Christmas Eve, but other than those two occassions he is perfectly happy to live on bread and cheese.

And Mike, yes, job lots for dinner would help. I’m also going to try pre-cutting a load of carrots and other vegetables to have at the ready. Thanks for the tip.

]]> By: Kerri http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/tgif/comment-page-1/#comment-638 Kerri Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:56:44 +0000 http://www.babylune.com/tgif/#comment-638 Does hubby cook? :P That's my quick fix, though it doesn't happen often. But if I have spaghetti ingredients on hand, he's good to go. Or we make a bunch of pancakes ahead of time and freeze them. Then just nuke a few for dinner. My crew loves a breakfast dinner (they get that from Bald Man, not me). Best wishes on keeping those resolutions. :D Does hubby cook? :P That’s my quick fix, though it doesn’t happen often. But if I have spaghetti ingredients on hand, he’s good to go. Or we make a bunch of pancakes ahead of time and freeze them. Then just nuke a few for dinner. My crew loves a breakfast dinner (they get that from Bald Man, not me). Best wishes on keeping those resolutions. :D

]]> By: Mike http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/tgif/comment-page-1/#comment-637 Mike Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:21:28 +0000 http://www.babylune.com/tgif/#comment-637 For dinner, try to bite the bullet and cook several meals and throw them in the freezer. Another thing my wife started doing recently is filling ball jars with all the ingredients needed for one thing, like home made hamburger helper or something like that. Then we can pull those out and cook them on nights we don't feel like cooking. At least the prep work is done. We also try to make sure we have some meat that I can throw on the grill and vegetables that I can throw in the micro to easily make dinner myself. I'm a decent cook unless the recipe has a meanwhile. So I normally try to stick to the easy things. For dinner, try to bite the bullet and cook several meals and throw them in the freezer.

Another thing my wife started doing recently is filling ball jars with all the ingredients needed for one thing, like home made hamburger helper or something like that. Then we can pull those out and cook them on nights we don’t feel like cooking. At least the prep work is done.

We also try to make sure we have some meat that I can throw on the grill and vegetables that I can throw in the micro to easily make dinner myself.

I’m a decent cook unless the recipe has a meanwhile. So I normally try to stick to the easy things.

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