Friday, September 2, 2011

Cooking Extravaganza


Last Saturday, my beautiful sister and I decided to have a cooking extravaganza!  Always the planner, Abby came up with the meals we would make and divided up the shopping responsibilities.  As we are both busy moms we decided if we could make several good, healthy meals to freeze it might reduce our stress levels a bit.  With the help of our wonderful mother who agreed to babysit in exchange for meals of her own, we accomplished a lot in just a short time. 

Chicken Tortilla Soup

As is normal around here, Matney and I were up at the crack of dawn and we knew Abby and her boys would be so we headed to Nannie B and Papa G's for the day!  Mom helped us with a little prep and then once the kids all woke up and were bouncing off the walls she took them outside so we could have a nice, quiet morning of doing one of the things we loved most - cooking!  We started at 7:45 and by 10:45 we have 9 meals each and about 13 dozen rolls.  All in all it was a great day and I believe we will be doing it again.  Now, to just stop hording our meals and actually use them!


Garlic Pork Loin

Abby-concentrating really hard!
Some of our meals
The rolls--they just kept growing and growing and...
growing!!!
We had so many rolls we ran out of cookie sheets!  But they turned out great and we both know how proud Grandma Janie would have been!

Thanks Abby and Mom for such a great day.  I am looking forward to our next cooking extravaganza!

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