I love to cook but lately I've been working too much and get home later than I'd like to. The other half will get things started if I'm organized in the morning and leave clear instructions but I am generally not organized in the morning. So cooking during the week has become a bit of a chore - eating at 8 and going to bed at 9:30 just doesn't work for me. Or I would get home and we'd order pizza or Thai which is ok once in a while but dangerous to the waistline if done too often. So I have managed to find a couple of dinner helpers that have made a difference.
A few months ago, my friend Pam turned me on to Supperworks, a meal preparation company that basically does all of the chopping and recipe creation for you. It felt like an odd concept to me at first until I tried it. Essentially, I get 12 meals for an hour's work. Yes, I could do the same things at home, but it would take me several hours on the weekend. The food is pretty good too. Most things don't take long to cook and I actually find that I spend more time doing something interesting with vegetables because I don't have to pay attention to the protein part of the meal.
The other find this week was a stir-fry kit from Longos. We tried a beef stir fry with lime. It came with noodles and quite a few veggies and was pretty tasty.
On the crafty front, things have been fairly quiet. I have been working on my sock-of-the-two-months project (like the Yarn Harlot's sock of the month club but Kristen, Natalie and I decided we would do it over two months) and it is a very time consuming but lovely cabled sock. I get about 2 rounds done per half hour. I really like it though.
I have included the completely-unrelated-to-the-post quilt pictures to liven things up a bit. I stayed up too late last night and am not feeling very inspired in the writing department so the pictures are an attempt to make up for that. The top one was my own pattern and the bottom was Atkinson Designs Yellow Brick Road. I have done two Atkinson patterns now and find them very well written. While I guess I can't exactly call myself a novice quilter anymore, I'm still a bit clueless when following sewing directions so need things really well spelled out for me. Atkinson does that.
I guess I should get the day started. I'm off to Supperworks for more of those dinner helpers.
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