Cooking Mag Mommy

Today was the first day while doing the “Gourmet” project that I’ ve seriously worried that I might be tipping over the edge into obsessive. The day after tomorrow we leave for San Diego (finally!) and I have only 8 recipes left to make from May’s Gourmet. Two of those recipes are great for lunch but tomorrow we are meeting friends to take the kids to McDaniel Farm Day so lunch tomorrow is out. So I made two lunch dishes today for Eyrleigh and me. I know she’s not a fan of fish and sardines seems a real stretch so I made the Spaghetti with Sardines and Dill on page 80 for me and made the Egg and Tomato Stir-fry on page 107 for her. I think I made a good decision. Eyrleigh ate the Tomato and Egg Stir-fry with enthusiasm. I was a bit disappointed at first that an article about the best Chinese restaurants in L.A. would be a ccompanied by such a simple recipe. Was this really the best L.A. had to offer? But in its defense, this recipe, though not fancy, could be a real mainstay for a...

I have to admit something. It's not April 16 th today. If you are reading this blog regularly, you may notice that my postings aren't matching the dates. With all the hosting last week, I got behind. Most nights I'd at least start the post, but I wasn't finishing them and then the next day would be a whole new batch of recipes and I just couldn't keep up. In fact, the cost and calorie breakdowns for the last week are still not up and may take awhile to do. I guess that's the problem with trying to cram a month's worth of recipes into 2 weeks. And it looks to be for naught. Richard's business trip got postponed so we won't leave until at least the last week of April. Oh, well... I'm still having fun and it was great to have guests to share this month's recipes with so I don't mind at all. Tonight I made three more recipes from April's Gourmet magazine, leaving me with only two recipes left to make. I made the Grilled Mediterranean La...