An orgy of cooking.

A couple of days ago, my wife got her hands on a new cookbook, called 'Once a Month Cooking.'   In addition to containing recipes, the book puts forward the idea that it is possible to go shopping 1 day, then spend the WHOLE NEXT DAY COOKING, and end up with a freezer full of 28 meals mostly ready to go.  To this end, the book has a few different 30-day menu's, and just in case you aren't feeling quite that motivated, there are a few 14-day menu's.  Along with the menu's are carefully detailed shopping lists.  Everything a woman such as my wife needs to drive herself crazy.

Lacking not in ambition, but freezer space here in the apartment, my wife decided to attack on of the 14-day menu's.  Yesterday she did some shopping at Win-Co, and today she did the cooking/assembling. 

This is what I came home to:

Also...one very frazzeled wife, who threatened a painful death if pictures of her ended up on the internet machine. 

My daughters tell me that they learned some interesting new language from mommy today, mostly tied to the size of our apartment kitchen.  Being her first time, she made a few discoveries that might make things easier the next time. 

First, she wished she had done some prep work the night before, like browning ground beef and sausage...maybe chopping up the green peppers...that kind of stuff.  The other thing she discovered is that they is NO WAY any human being could do twice this many recipes in 1 DAY unless you were talking about a 24 hour work shift type day. 

The big question is going to be if it is all worth it.  Visually, the freezer evidence is impressive:

Time will only tell if the recipes are any good...but either way, SWMBO earned a foot rub tonight.