Day 7

Tonight was meant to be a celebration of my son's last day of being 11.  I spent the day shopping, tracking down the foods he had requested for dinner.  The menu included grilled mini lamb burgers with  tzatziki sauce, steak fries and lemon custard cake for dessert.  There was an apparent run on ground lamb, because I had to go to three stores before I found some.  The other ingredients were simple to procure.  I did barrow the custard cups from a friend, not knowing for sure that we would like the recipe.

We put the menu together by picking recipes from the new Great Food Fast cookbook by Martha Stewart. I really like the cookbook.  Every recipe has a picture and for a beginner like me this is a plus.

I had the potatoes in the oven and was moving on the the tzatziki sauce, when I heard the front door bell.  This is very unusual and it startled me.  I looked through the window and saw my father-in-law.  He had made a mistake.  He and my mother-in-law were meant to come tomorrow for my son's birthday dinner.  They had come a day early.  Because it is a 2.5 hour drive from their home to ours, we tossed the potatoes, put the other ingredients in the fridge and made our way to a local restaurant.  I didn't have enough food for five.  Even if I I had they would have never eaten the lamb.

I must say thats life make cooking difficult.  Between the shopping and prep I spent hours I will never get back.  I can only be grateful that only the potatoes were lost.  If worse comes to worse we can have a salad and chips with the meal on Thursday, if I don't make it back to the store.