Thursday, December 19, 2013

PLANNING PLANNING PLANNING

It is 2 am and I am sitting in bed with two laptops and my ipad.  I just noticed. Hahaha…I have my big one open here so I could load pics of Debbie on facebook.  They are only on the big lap top.  I have my little one open to my recipe box on allrecipes.  And I have my ipad to make lists and notes on.  I am watching Chopped at the same time.  This is the best time of the day to do the thinking that is necessary to have a week of feeding twelve everynight easy.  Some of them are vegetarian which throws a twist into it.

I can just hear my sister now, at least according to past occasions.  I remember one christmas up at her place I asked what I could bring..Its just something we do…we don't come empty handed.  And her response was "oh nothing…I don't know…I haven't even thought about it. On thanksgiving we all were out all day hiking (or something strenuous) and when we got home everyone just did something and it all came together."

  But, I am thinking, someone had to think about the turkey and actually physically get it ahead of time.  And if you want spuds to go with that you have to check and see if there are enough in the bag for the dinner.  And, I don't know about her house but we just might not have enough vegetables or yams or gravy stuff or cranberries or homemade dessert (which has to be thought about, shopped for and made).   And I don't have a big splendiferous kitchen that can accommodate more than one or two people working.  There is no way its just "going to come together" without there being some organizing and activity on my part. Maybe she was just trying to make a point that I think about food too much.

And this could well be true.  I do think about food a lot.  I love planning it, and shopping for it, and cooking it and making my family and company really enjoy it.  This is something I have done, happily and successfully, since I was about 12 years old.  Whilst others were out saving the world, educating the world, cleaning up the world, entertaining the world or whatever, I was happily at home in my kitchen whomping up something yummy…preferably to share.

So here I sit, contentedly going through all the recipes, planning a weeks worth of food for everyone, making extensive detailed organized shopping lists and planning where to put it all in the garage!  I love it. 

Monte arrived tonight, looking good and loaded down with presents and laundry.  After unpacking he invaded my Purple Room (I didn't realize how tiny my room is and how huge he is) and played his latest compositions for me on the piano.   Its beginning to really feel like Christmas now.  The family is beginning to gather and there are Nanaimo Bars in the garage…nothing screams Christmas in our house like Nanaimo Bars…none of us really like them but they are always there!  TTYL

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