- Preheat oven to 200*C
- Discover there is only two chicken breast and not three
- Cut up into smaller pieces
- Discover there is no bacon
- Put chicken in oven for 45 minutes
- Clean chopping board and put away
- Cut up half the mushrooms - decide to put the rest aside for tomorrow nights dinner
- Put mushrooms in saucepan with garlic infused oil, turn to medium heat
- Peel and chop potatoes, while keeping an eye on and stirring mushrooms
- Cut up one broccoli, put in steamer on stove - add water, but don't turn on
- Put potatoes in pot, add water and salt - turn to high until boiling then medium heat
- Get out butter, salt, pepper, flour, and milk to start the mushroom sauce
- See Toddler enter kitchen
- Say "Hi" give Toddler cuddle and send back into lounge with Daddy and Grandpa
- Watch Toddler leave kitchen and enter lounge
- Remove cooked mushrooms and put into bowl
- Put 500g butter into same saucepan used for mushrooms (less dishes and more flavour)
- Hear Toddler say "Banana" followed by a clatter
- Turn to find Toddler with banana bunch in hand - and a shattered fruit bowl at their feet (second one in a year due to a "banana")
- Pick Toddler up and move to other side of kitchen
- Check to see that Toddler is ok (Toddler is fine and still holding onto banana)
- Make mental note to get wire fruit bowl as replacement
- Send Toddler into lounge, ask Hubby to change him
- Turn to clean up broken fruit bowl, find Grandpa doing it
- Give Grandpa brush and shovel and thank him for cleaning it up - find out later in the evening that bowl was a gift he was given 30 years ago :-(
- Turn back to stove, turn on element and make mushroom sauce
- Turn steamer on
- Potatoes ready
- Ensure Toddler is in lounge in strict hold of Daddy
- Drain potatoes, put in butter, salt, pepper and milk - mash the potatoes
- Pull chicken out
- Call out to Grandpa to double check chicken is ok (as he is a much better cook then you)
- Toddler comes running in "Ok! Ok!" to check chicken is ok, followed by Grandpa
- Chicken is confirmed to be OK
- Put Toddler in high chair
- Give "Harold" (The helicopter from Thomas the tank engine)
- Dish dinner up
- Serve drinks
- Serve dinner
- Sit down and eat dinner
- Toddler wants down - throws Harold on the floor
- Get Toddler down and continue to eat dinner
- Toddler comes over with Harold and rolls him over your jeans it is only then that you discover that Harold has also been rolling in mash potatoes
- Take Harold of Toddler and finish eating dinner
- Toddler goes into freezer and wants frozen peas
- Put frozen peas in cup for Toddler
- Toddler goes to high chair and wants up
- Put Toddler into high chair
- Toddler empties peas onto high chair frame and starts eating with his mouth (no hands involved)
- Let Toddler have his fun, collect plates and start stacking dinner dishes
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
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