My First Cooking Day Since the Twins

Our freezer has hit that depressingly empty point where there is little left to pull out of it for dinner. We have eaten up almost everything I froze in preparation for the twins. I decided it was time to start over and made two recipes this weekend. The kids were all amazingly cooperative, and I was able make both recipes yesterday. They were all super tired or Ryan drugged them because they all slept a big chuck of the day. Claire took a four hour nap. I can't remember when she last did that.

I made four batches of my standard lasagna recipe (although assembled them in one 9x13 and six 8x8's). I also made a triple batch of Beef Stroganoff from Don't Panic, Dinner's in the Freezer. I haven't made this recipe before, but my sister highly recommended it, and I am not sorry I made a large batch. It is really pretty fabulous. Here are a couple pictures from this round. I took several pictures of my lasagna process and posted those under my lasagna recipe I listed a while back.

This is how things look as I'm planning everything out. I pull out any cookbooks I'm using. I also now use my laptop to look up my recipes on this blog. It's turned out to be really helpful to have my favorite recipes posted here. I start making lists as to what I need for each recipe and check my pantry for what I already have.
The clean-up crew. She can have anything that falls on the floor. She really enjoys her job.

My finished lasagna. Yum.