Cooking follow-up

The 3-meals in one night went really well yesterday. John napped late (and everytime I dropped a dish I prayed he would stay asleep because his room is right next to the kitchen) so he was only awake for about 5 minutes of the hour-long process last night.

The three meals took an hour total instead of the thirty minutes I had predicted. This was partially due to a last minute menu change when I realized I needed to use some chard so I made an onion-chard-potato fritatta (requiring onion and chard to be chopped and cooked) instead of a zucchini-potato fritatta for which all the ingredients were prepared.

I think I'll try to do this frequently in the future. I like cooking, but not everynight. I would do some things differently, though. I should have had an afternoon snack before starting because I hadn't eaten for four hours. I also should have read the recipes beforehand.

The pizza was great (we ate it last night). Tonight will be fritatta with bread and maybe I'll make some cottage cheese dip for the broccoli and zucchini we got in our boxed CSA share today. Still - no oven! Tomorrow will be squash custard. I'll cook this week's chard share to go with it on the stove, which will take about 10 minutes.