The Weekend

Well, it's the weekend..my time to unwind.  For me that means running errands and spending time with the lad, but it also means that I will be cranking out at least three meals a day.  Well, Friday's are my eat out days, I rarely cook on Fridays.  I would say it's like my day off from cooking, but who needs those..LOL.  Tomorrow I'll be making fajitas, black beans and yellow rice..yummmooo.  The thing I haven't figured out is Sunday's dinner or breakfast.  Sunday's breakfast is pretty much always the same, a breakfast pastry/bread alongside fried potatoes with onions and green peppers, bacon, sausauge and some style of eggs, but I haven't figured out what pastry to do; in thinking about it, just now, homemade cinnamon rolls came to mind..hmmm.  I guess blogging really helps get the creative juices flowing.  Let's see if I can't create Sunday's dinner in my head...hmmm still nothing.  I've made pot roast, rosted chicken, baked chicken, lasagna, and smothered steaks recently, so I do know what I'm not going to make.  I really can't beleive I'm drawing a blank here...ohhh a whole roasted turkey sounds nice with homemade cornbread stuffing, yams and collards.  The lightbulb has went off.  YAY for me!!!!  I typically bake a cake every Sunday, so dessert is a no brainer-maybe I should do something different like a dump cake or a gingerbread trifle; they both sound good but the trifle really would tie in with the pre-Thanksgiving Dayesque meal.  Well,  I have grocery shopping to do, so I'll say ta ta for now and compose that list.  Side note:  Is grocery shopping a huge deal for anyone like it is for me??? I LOVE IT!!! 

Curling Up With a Good Cook

Lately, the only time I feel fulfilled is when I am in the kitchen whipping up a good meal.  It touches on all of my senses and is satisfying on so many levels.  For instance, the smell of a big pot of chili simmering away in the kitchen reminds me of the first time I made it for a pot luck lunch at work, and how everyone loved it.  Making Sunday breakfast had been a tradition in my home growing up, and back then I vowed that it would be a tradition that I would carry on, and every Sunday when I am cooking breakfast, I am reminded of the times when my mom would be playing her gospel music, making pancakes, sausage, eggs and such, and us getting ready for church, and then enjoying that wonderful breakfast.  After a hard day's work, I can come home and fix a full course meal and find that too be soooo relaxing.  I've lived and breathed food and creating and experimenting in the kitchen since I was very young.  Sometimes things would come out great, and then sometimes not so great, lol, but I vowed to learn everything to be a success in the kitchen.  It's funny because the only things that I could watch (on the rare occassion I was on punishment) were Jeopardy and my cooking shows.  Back then it was Yan Can Cook, Justin Wilson and Julia Child's Cooking shows, Caio Italia, and The Frugal Gourmet.  I was glued and always tuned into those shows back then just as I am now to all shows food orientated, the new Cooking Channel, everything Food Network and the Travel Channel's Food Paradise's and Man vs. Food.  My ultimate goal is to open a bed and breakfast and expand my culinary world above and beyond.