The Family Dinner

2nd February 2008

Though I have had a family of four for more than seven years now, cooking a family dinner was never on my daily to-do list.

Though I have had a family of four for more than seven years now, cooking a family dinner was never on my daily to-do list. When the kids were small I could get away with blaming their limited taste or lack of time. When they went to kindergarten I was put back in my feeding plans by the kids’ admiration for the bland food served there and refusal to eat my more complicated offerings. I only had guest appearances on the family dinner stage and compulsive cooking moments. With the youngsters off to school and their developing taste for foods like chicken tikka masala or ...