Tax Return and All-Clad Cookware

We filed our taxes, received the tax return, and already spent a good part of it. Today, the last of our spendings arrived! Troy and I knew we were needing a good pots and pans set, and after some research and consultation, we settled on All-Clad and Troy selected the pieces he thought would be of most use to us.  

Oooo, shiny! 

My DH and I both have a passion for cooking and are eager to make use of our new cookware. We have divided up the week so that I have been assigned the Monday/Tuesday meals, and he is in charge of the Thursday/Friday meals. (Wednesdays we attend a Bible Study that serves us dinner, and Sat/Sun are the designated days for eating leftovers or going out to eat) This set up has worked nicely for us as we get to pursue our passions but not have the pressure and drudgery of being in charge of every single meal every day of the week. As we only have two days a week each, we can plan an elaborate (or modest) meal and give it our all, knowing we get to lay back and let someone else do the work on the other nights.

We do our weekly shopping after church on Sunday, and last week during our shopping trip we discovered that we had coincidentally both planned a form of chicken for the first night and crock-pot ribs for our second night. Haha. Great minds think alike, no? And if one has to have similar meals twice in one week, at least we have excellent taste, yes?

Adam enjoys hanging with us and doesn’t like to be left in a room without someone in it, and dinnertime is no exception. He eyes our food and demands to be fed at the same time so he can feel a part of the meal as well. Here he is after last Tuesday's meal:

Passed out after a delicious dinner. "Mmmm, mommy makes yummy ribs." ;) haha