My Meals in Minutes: 50 meals 50 weeks: Week 15

Swimming lessons were never my favourite thing as a child. Especially when it came to treading water! Then came the dreaded day at the end of every term of swim lessons when you had to tread water for 5 minutes with all of your clothes on. This was agonising and felt like 5 hours not 5 minutes. I remember barely keeping my nose above the water while at the same time willing myself to keep on kicking. This past week felt a lot like those blasted swim lessons. June in the year of a teacher is when EVERY thing is due all at once...report cards, documents, audits and more! Both Scruffy Hubby and Myself have barely kept our noses above the water and are starting to feel the burn. Then comes the mommy and daddy guilt of "is all this work taking us away from the kids". So instead of messing with our little gremlins time we do all of our work after they go to bed. When the hell is somebody gonna finally perfect cloning technology!

We have had a great weekend of locking our work away, letting our baby girl cut her Rapunzel like hair, watching our oldest boy run his first 5km run in only 29 minutes and everyone taking a family nap this afternoon while watching a movie. Well I think Scruffy Hubby and I did the much needed napping while the munchkins watched the movie.

I woke up and forced myself to think about dinner and remembered Holy Hanna I need to make blog dinner! I flipped through my book and chose something that looked easy and yummy. I was going to make Tasty Crusted Cod, My Mashy Peas, Tatar Sauce and Warm Garden Salad from page 140. I was off and running.

Well the water level decided to rise while I was cooking this meal. The oven started on fire again! My food processor decided to reenact a scene from the movie the Exorcist by spinning its head out of control and spewing anchovy juice everywhere (the kids school agendas took the hit, thank God school is almost done). The fire alarm went off like 3 times and I was a sweating beast. The recuperation my nap provided was melting away as I attempted to "tread water" in my kitchen. 45 minutes later supper was ready, I was dripping and the kids were way beyond hungry! My kitchen looked like a small battle happened.

Dinner was on the table and Simon took one look and ran away screaming with his tongue hanging out! Who did he think he was...Mary!?! After coaxing everyone to the table we dug right in. Max gave me a 4 and then reduced it to a 3 after his second bite of fish. Simon said 4, 4, 4, 3 as he pointed to each item on his plate. He is really getting the hang of this! He ended up liking his food and I am not sure why he ran away screaming. Mary only liked the Mashy Peas and asked to have them in her thermos. In kid language this is the highest compliment to be paid. If anyone dibs anything for lunch it means it was the best food ever! You should see the lunch war when I make clam chowder! Despite her high compliment she gave everything else a 1. Scruffy Hubby said it was an easy 4 but wasn't a huge fan of the salad. I have to agree. I do not like warm lettuce of any kind! Even if I order a burger while we are out I will order it without lettuce for fear of the warm soggy leaf by the time I get it. I gave this meal a 3 but I may be tainted from the cooking antics of the last 45 minutes!

There is only 14 days of school left and I will be trying to keep afloat for everyone of them! I am really excited for the summer of care free cooking!

See you all for week 16! I am planning on some Father's Day Curry!

Trish