Back to my own food

Alright after being away for 7 days and eating out for over half those days I can honestly say I'm sick of restaurant food.  Odd thing to say but when you have children as young as ours it's hard to find kid friendly places that have a variety on their food menus that they would like / eat.  Hard to even contemplate but it's true.  Now don't get me wrong my two do eat a lot, heck we did indian last night to break the monotony of spaghetti for them as much for us.  I think my favorite meal had to have been on the return journey.  I found a gold country club that has a hotel...who offered us a 10% discount if we ate at their restaurant, now given the poor girls had been cooped up in their car seats for approximately 10 hours we opted for the opportunity to walk from the hotel room to the restaurant, this also meant Mum and Dad could have a glass of wine and not worry about driving back as well.  I opted for a seafood dish, my husband steak and we were able to do fish and chips for the girls.  The restaurant didn't have a children's menu but they had lighter smaller meals so we just took one of those and split it.  They did ok but at this point fries and spaghetti are just getting so old!

Why do kids portions and meals have to be so em boring?  It's like the same items on every menu?  I dunno maybe next time we eat out I'll just order a dinner and split it.  Hey last night my girls (so proud) happily ate mango chicken curry!  Now see we just ordered from the adult menu and they were perfectly happy to oblige.

Ah well one of these days.  The cat survived our absence and I'm so grateful to our next door neighbour who treated her as good as the pet sitter we used to pay!  I did give her some flowers to say thank you but it's nice to know we have people available to look after her.

Dinner tonight is orange tarragon chicken, which just smells absolutely divine right now. Got some nice crusty bread and in a minute I'm going to make up some sweet potatoes to go along side.   I'm always wary of cooking chicken with bone in and trying to make sure it's cooked properly all the way through.  But I have plenty of pieces of chicken to go around.