Happy New Year!

It has been a nice quiet New Year with the Flores Family. My parents watched the girls last night and I made dinner at home for Carlos and me. I have to admit I was impressed with myself for our dinner last night. After a full day’s work, then commute home only to pack up the girls and take them over to my parents, I cooked a yummy dinner. I made great shrimp scampi, with some pasta aglio e olio, green beans, and French bread. It was so good; I could eat it every day. Then I made dark chocolate fondue with bananas, angel food cake, biscotti, and fresh strawberries. It was delicious and easy to make. It made me wonder why I usually fail to cook dinner on weeknights or cook crap when I am capable for so much more!!

New years Day was also at home. I invited my parents over for dinner and we had ham. Now this meal was a bit of a mess. I planned my menu and seemed to forget I only have one oven. Now with the huge ham Carlos cooking monopolizing the entire oven, my potatoes au gratin sat and sat until the ham was finished. The ham for some reason took much longer than anticipated to get to temperature. Therefore, we all were starving waiting for the ham to be finished, only to then have to wait for the potatoes to cook. Dinner was very late, and the potatoes were undercooked when I finally gave up and said, “We have to eat now!” We played the Wii for hours while we waited for dinner. My parents said dinner was wonderful, but I am pretty sure they were just being nice.