Meals Made Ahead: June Cooking Day

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

June Cooking Day

Our June cooking session went well today. I'm sorry to say I completely forgot about taking pictures until about 20 minutes after everyone went home and I saw the camera sitting there! Oh well. I will try to take photos of the meals as I cook them so at least you can see what the finished product looks like.

It took us about 2 1/2 hours to do our cooking today. We made Dr. Pepper Spaghetti, Caribbean Jerk Chicken, Cashew Chicken, Sausage and Spinach Quiche and Garlic Bread. We were able to split the spaghetti and the cashew chicken into two meals for each family. So 6 meals plus garlic bread for two meals. And the total bill came to just over $35 per person. This was quite an increase over last month when we spent less than $20, but we put meat in all our meals this time. Still, it's not bad, especially if you compare it to the cost of dining out for 6 meals!

Our freezers are full and our schedules are packed. We decided to skip July and we will get together again sometime in August. I will post our date and menu once it's been decided. In the meantime, feel free to search our archives for ideas. And I'm sure we will be updating the blog with more recipes to try even before August.

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About this blog:

We are a group of moms who get together about once a month or so to cook Meals Made Ahead.

Meals Made Ahead are great because it's nice to always have something in the freezer for those nights that are busy, those nights when you can't think of anything to make, those nights when you have nothing to cook with because you didn't feel like dragging two screaming kids through the grocery store, those nights when you just don't feel like cooking.

Sure, we could do this on our own. But it's much more fun to cook with friends (and share the clean up!)

The secret ingredient

"If a woman could see the sparks of light going forth from her fingertips when she is cooking, and the substance of light that goes into the food she handles, she would be amazed to see how much of herself she charges into the meals that she prepares for her family and friends. It is one of the most important and least understood activities of life, that the radiation and feeling that go into the preparation of food affect everyone who partakes of it. And this activity should be unhurried, peaceful, and happy because the substance of the lifestream performing the service flows into that food and is eaten, and actually becomes part of the energy of the receiver. It would be better that an individual did not eat at all than to eat food that has been prepared under a feeling of anger, apathy, resentment, depression, or any outward pressure."
~Maha Chohan, Electrons