What's for dinner tonight?
Everyday when my husband gets off of work he calls me up and asks me a question I dread hearing, "What's for dinner?". It seems that in my busy days of working and caring for the kids, dinner usually slips my mind. Not to mention it seems as though my creative juices in the kitchen aren't quite flowing the same. I find myself repeating different versions of chicken and ground beef quite often. Not too long ago, I was always coming up with new innovative and delicious dinner meals. I wonder what it is that has my creative cooking brain at a stand still. Could it be a busier work schedule? Could it be now having 4 children, two of which are 3 and under? Could it be that I am trying to stay in the safe zone because I have so many picky eaters? Could it be the massive amounts of laundry, sweeping, mopping, toilet bowls, sinks, bedrooms, and everything else I do in the house that I clean daily ? I sit back and I ask myself what is so different now than it was before? Before when I treated my kitchen like the Chopped studio and the clock was ticking. Is this what it feels like to get used to quick processed meals and frozen dinners?
Maybe this is my punishment for knocking the people who live on box mac and cheese and jar pasta sauce. I am determined to pull myself out of this dinner rut. I am a super woman! I must take a deep breath and take a giant step back to reboot myself. Don't get me wrong, I still make everything home made when I do cook. (Outside of noodles, that got old really quick!) I am just in desperate need of thinking outside of the box again. (Not literally the box..you know what I mean. I hope.)
It is about that time for my husband to call me. At 5 in the evening I am already dreading hearing, "What's for dinner?". I have no freaking idea...you tell me honey!
