Dad's Dinner

Baby cheesies: a pre-dinner snack.

Matt cooking

Cost: $7

Prep: 45 minutes

I am very proud of my husband tonight. I am on my way out with my Ladies' Dining Club, and generally that means the boys will be eating frozen pizza. Tonight, Matt stuck with the meal plan I had designed at the beginning of the week and made the stir-fry was tonight himself!

So, as I am leaving, the boys are eating REAL food with MULTIPLE food groups. Go Daddy!

He made teriyaki sauce himself (a little too much corn starch).

He used some teriyaki beef from the freezer (even if he forgot to defrost it).

Udon noodles, which are easier for baby to eat

Lots of veggies

Ready to eat!

Post Village Stir-fry

So, after our delicious lunch at Japanese Village, I couldn't even think about dinner. However, Matt and Charlie still needed to eat.

So, first, Charlie spread Cheerios all over the floor and ate those.

Then I told Matt I was on a cooking strike, but there was some pork he could cook in the fridge. He decided on a stir-fry. He used some lime leaves, specifically kefir. He used the last of the Chinatown carrots, some beans, broccoli, maybe some other stuff, some sauce, the pork, maybe some spices, I dunno.

I did have a couple bites off Charlie face, but I really couldn't eat. Charlie ate it though and loved it!

My plate: still clean

Dad's "Crap" Stirfry

I just realized I didn't post yesterday. Probably because I didn't cook; it was Matt's chance to take a turn. He may have overestimated how much we needed and now may or may not be eating this every lunch for the rest of the week.

He made a stir-fry. In our university days we would make stir-fry all the time. We always called it "Crap Stir-fry" because we would just throw in whatever crap was in the fridge.

This time, it was a real stir-fry but with "crap" sauce: bits of every bottle of sauce in the fridge.

The great thing about this dish is that you can really get a lot of veggies in there. Carrots, green pepper, yellow pepper, broccoli, cabbage, and bokchoy joined noodles (weird noodles, like Mr. Noodles minus being deep fried). We also cooked four chicken breasts, two for the stir-fry and two we froze for Thursday's pizza.

Charlie was a big fan, both of eating it and putting pieces of it in his hair. That is how he shows us he approves of his meal (so far, clearly, his favorite is sour cream, which he likes to comb through his hair with his fingers).