Let's do it again tonight - one more time, with feeling !

...organise dinner, that is.

Last night there was not a lot of feeling involved - I called into our local Charcoal Chicken (the friendly folk know me by name) on my way home from work, picking up a chicken, greek salad and chips. I simply needed fuel to feed a hungry family, not a gourmet sensation.

There was not a lot of feeling involved in last Thursday night's dinner either - boiled eggs with soldiers (even though Lily cheers when I announce that this is on the menu).

Paul has touch football on a Thursday night, so Thursday is our 'easy' night of the week.

At the beginning of this week, I (alone) went shopping, hunting and gathering the week's worth of meals. [Usually Paul does the grocery shopping and half of the cooking].

It is now Friday and I am nearing the end of my list, before I once more have to plan and do it all again!

This week I planned and we ate:

Monday
Rice paper rolls with prawns, avocado, coriander, mushroom, cucumber, capsicum and dipping sauce.

* I took the left over cut up vegetables from the rice paper rolls, in a salad to work the next day.

Tuesday
I cooked spaghetti bolognaise.

Wednesday
I made sure I had enough spaghetti bolognaise to last another night.

Thursday
Charcoal Chicken

Friday
I could do my risotto? Or, there is certainly enough chicken and vegetables to make a chicken salad? Ma's slow cooked meat balls? There's a lot of love, a lot of feeling in the moulding, shaping and slow cooking of those? They are healthy and nourishing and not from a fast food outlet.

When Paul came home I had decided .

We went to our local and had a dozen oysters done 3 ways, grilled King fish with salad and chips and a chardonnay/beer in the salty air.

Tonight - I simply could not make dinner one more time, with feeling.

I could not proverbially, dutifully, rest back, chop up and think of England.

What did you plan/have this week?

What did you have tonight?

As soon as we plan tonight's meal - tomorrow night is upon us!

I am a weekend cook. Thank goodness Paul usually feeds hunts and gathers for us during the week!

Bon appetite for another night x o