Getting a meal on the table has never been very easy for me.  When I worked in BC time (Before Children), my husband did most of the cooking and did a fine job.  Frequently, we cooked together and then I always did clean-up.  That was the deal and it worked for us at the time.  Then while I was on maternity leave, I started cooking dinner on a regular basis and oftentimes, by myself since I would cook and we would eat as soon as he got home from work.  I would spend too much time throughout the day trying to figure out what I was going to make for dinner.  Most of it would be just think time, but still it consumed a lot of my time.  I would decide what to make and then rummage through the refrigerator and pantry only to find I was missing an ingredient.  So then I would put the missing ingredient(s) on the grocery list.  By the time, I got around to buying the ingredient(s), I had either a) forgotten what recipe I bought them for b) was now missing other ingredient(s) c) … [Read more...]