Cooking: Sunday/ Funday

This week, my goal is to blog four times

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We have accidentally started a tradition at my house. Accidental traditions are the best kind, I think. 

Accidental means not contrived, spontaneous and a matter of fate.

Starting on Easter Sunday, we have spent every Sunday cooking,eating and being outside. 

Usually we are with our friends and family, twice we have been to an event. One week it was our

 Four Bridges Art festival and yesterday to the opening of the local farmer's  market. 

We relish hanging out. Truly hanging out and relaxing with friends. We have been using our smoker and cooking chicken, pork and salmon. Delicious! I have made easy favorites, kitchen sink salad,key lime pie, black eyed peas, and homemade slaw. Easy and quick has been my motto.

My husband and I were talking earlier in the week as to how we used to hate not having anything to do on a weekend day. When our kids were little, we tried to cram as much into our weekends as possible.Now, we look forward to a calm Sunday to end our crazy week. Now, don't get me wrong, we still go hard on the weekends. This weekend alone, we went to two separate dinner parties, out to dinner with our kids, chauffeured a kid to a dance, a plant sale,  the garden center, a musical, church, mountain biking, the farmers market and Home Depot.  We planted our garden, mulched flower beds and mowed. The difference is now, we schedule our down time instead of trying to make up for it on Monday.

Yesterday, by mid afternoon, we were relaxing and hanging out with friends. Smoking a wild pig, cooking other treats and eating. The kids played wiffle ball and hide and go seek. The adults stood around and swapped stories and laughed hard. Relaxing and rejuvenating for the week ahead.

This week, we are going to my sister's and Sunday/Funday will be on hiatus, instead spent in the car, driving home. But it will return, in two weeks and we will be ready to do  what we now know we do best...cook, eat and relax.

Via my favorite way to waste time on Sunday/Funday

Post Sunday/Funday menu

* We over indulged yesterday. For instance, I ate about 10 pounds of goat cheese covered with this on lavash. THEN ate home made mac & cheese, corn bread salad, home made coconut cake and rosemary rolls. SO this week, we are going Spartan.

Taco Salad

dinner out due to kid's schedules (salad bar at Greenlife)

baked chicken, baked sweet potatoes, salad

Egg salad or turkey & cheese sandwiches