Every morning I wake up, gulp my ice water, check email, Facebook, blog posts and then I drink coffee. I look outside, grateful for the beauty, quiet and stillness. After all, it’s 5:00am.
Then after I take the girls to school, the worry begins: what do I make for dinner??? I have one vegetarian, one high-protein-no-dairy, pasta, fruit-only eater, one omnivore and me. I find myself making three main items every night. This from a woman who rarely cooked! The dinner dilemma!
Well, tonight, I went online to the Food Network and looked up Melissa D’Arabian, who we saw win the crown of The Next Food Network Star of 2009, and pleaded to her for a recipe for dinner. Eureka! I found one. (http://www.foodnetwork.com/videos/north-african-meatballs/49282.html) With only a few tweaks, substitutions and deletions, I made fancy meatballs and rice. Everyone, except our resident vegetarian, was delighted. She got veggie burgers.
Good news, bad news: good news: dinner tonight was great. Bad news: I have to come up with something new tomorrow. My friend KP would be so proud of me.
Any ideas are oh so welcome!!!
Aloha,
Denise
Denise, how and why did you decide to start cooking?? I struggle with that, as well. It’s harder to cook healthy until it just becomes a habit. We are eating super healthy now. Anyways, who is your vegetarian? I’m guessing Mark is your meat lover. Can u send me the recipe for these meatballs…how YOU made them? Thanks love.