Spic 'n' Span

"Wait...you don't cram all your dirty dishes into a laundry basket?  Oh, and you don't leave that basket in the backseat of your car?  I see...well, you know, some people tie a string around their finger, some people leave notes for themselves.  Us?  We just take them everywhere we go so we don't forget that they need to be washed."

That was the conversation Greg had with our imaginary passenger as we drove home today. 

With our house on the market (we're downsizing), we're discovering lots of quick cleanup tricks like hiding the dirty dishes in the car...thus having these silly conversations all too frequently.

And no... those were not the dishes from my cooking fiasco the other day.  They didn't fit.

Julia Child Would Have Been Proud

In an ironic attempt to simplify my life, I experienced--I mean survived--my first endeavor with once-a-month-cooking on Friday.  And now I know why it is so called...

Twenty-six recipes and nine chaotic kitchen hours later, I don't really want to step foot into my kitchen again for another month!

I checked out a few websites and sorted the recipes I picked into categories so they had similar ingredients and I could make them simultaneously.  Then I whipped it all up and froze it in freezer ziplocs and disposable casserole dishes.  That sounded way too easy.  I'm not going to lie...it was hard!

In all honesty it wasn't so bad, but I did probably bite off more than I could chew.  

(Don't you just love Greg's puns?)

I think twice-a-month-cooking is more my style.