Saturday 8 January

I need a day off from doing the brush cutting, and I also need to focus on food prep and cooking ahead as I have been getting unbalanced in that area. There are so many plates to keep in the air at the same time, and if I let that one in particular drop it makes the rest of them much harder to juggle. And I need to do a lot of cooking ahead for the family because otherwise I will drop that ball as well. So, cooking ahead lists:

• chia puddings (no cook, me/Hugh)
• briami (oven, me)
• felafels and hummus (food processor/oven, them)
• mac'n'cheese (stovetop/oven, them)
• lazy lasagne pasta bake (stovetop/oven, them)

[Break for washing up to happen and oven to be vacated]

• roast sweet potato and pumpkin dice (oven, Hugh)
• brown rice (rice cooker, Hugh/Eric)
• cauliflower-crusted silverbeet tofu quiche (food processor/stovetop/oven, me)
• lentil burgers (food processor/sandwich press)
• corn chowder (stovetop, them)
• TVP/cannellini bean sausages (stovetop, me)

[Break for washing up to happen]

• creamy coconut dhal with carrot (stovetop, them)
• green curry (stovetop, me/Eric)
• sweet potato red curry with silverbeet (stovetop, me/Eric)

After shopping:

• cabbagey mincey noodley thing with TVP (me/Dan) 

OMG. I have a sore back and sore feet, but I have cooked many many things... I dropped one or two things off the original list when I discovered I didn't have the right ingredients for them, but I've made everything except the TVP sausages. Go me!