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Like my beautiful sil mentioned (here and here), eating schedules get a little mixed up when the breadwinner is on a funny shift schedule. No longer can the wifey take her sweet time deciding on a supper menu, preparing the ingredients throughout the day, and/or putting it all together between 5 and 7 p.m. Instead she must use her time wisely and plan a meal that can be put together with a minimum of noise and with ingredients already in her kitchen/pantry (because going to the grocery store with kid(s) AND preparing a meal AND teachingcraftinghousecleaningmothering before the H has to leave for work is just about impossible). Not only must this meal be fully satisfying and pleasing to the H, it also can't be too incredibly heavy, because keep in mind that for at least one person in the family, this is probably the first thing they've put in their mouths since waking up. The boy and I have adapted pretty well to this schedule, eating big breakfasts when we wake up, small lunches, and our main meal with mr. waaz between 3 and 4, with a late-evening snack of leftovers to tide us over to the next morning. Yes, that's 4 meals for us. Please remember that the boy is a tot and I am pregnant.
ANYWAY, today's main meal was absolutely wonderful. After devouring my own plate in about 3 nanoseconds, I forbid mr. waaz from taking a single bite of his meal until I'd photographed the evidence for this here blog entry. Baked flounder (mango sauce, margarine, olive oil, parmesan, fresh lemon slices, s&p), peas and pearl onions, and sourdough biscuits (I shortened the sitting and rising time drastically due to previously mentioned constraints, made no difference in quality). YUM. Oh, and that little bit of brown up in the corner? chocolate panna cotta for later. Yes I am bragging, just a little. Tell me you're not drooling and I might apologize.