What's for supper?

Do you and your family eat meals together often? I ask because I can honestly say that the only time we aren't eating supper together is when my kids are having sleepovers at other people's houses.

Oh, our supper might consist of nothing more than a frozen pizza and carrot sticks if we're in a hurry to get out the door for something. But my family and I, with our decidedly spoiled Springer drooling profusely next to the table, generally eat supper together five or six nights out of the week.

I didn't truly realize we are a mealtime anomaly until I ran across the following blog post...

Cooking for my family is, in my own weird way, my ultimate expression of love for them. I'm not saying that's the way it should be, it's just what my internal compass says is important.

Of course, that means that I am CONSTANTLY asking, "What do you want for supper?"

I said it was important for me to cook for my family. I didn't say I was very creative when it came to the kitchen.

I'm not much of a food experimenter. I find a recipe that generates a positive response, and I will keep going back to it until I hear the groans when I say, "I'm making beef stroganoff."

I do tend to use a few of those kit meals too. Buy two bags of the stuff, throw them in the pan and heat until it reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees! Supper in 15! Whew!

So I'm by no means a virtuoso in the kitchen. I'm just steady. And probably too predictable. But at least I can say my need to "meal my family" has some positive benefits for them.

Here all this time, I just thought I was being selfish!

Dawn