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In some cases, I agree with these comments. But am I the only one who doesn't mind friends coming over and not cooking or taking us out to dinner? Or driving them to the airport? We have friends near the beach who live two hours away from the airport; we're 20 minutes away. If they asked if they could come the night before a trip and stay with us, I would be happy to let them. If I could, I'd offer to take them to the airport -- they're my friends! I want them around!

I experimented with oysters today -- grilled, slathered in fennel butter, along with clams and jumbo shrimp. It worked out just OK. http://cookingwithcrouton.wordpress.com

I seem to be completely ignoring the idea of not turning on the oven or stove to keep the kitchen cool, then I regret it in the middle of cooking. At least I have a lot of food in my fridge -- I've made fried chicken, corn casserole, Asian pasta salad, blueberry pancakes, roasted sweet potatoes, oatmeal-craisin cookies, and a big garden salad so far this weekend. I currently have a whole chicken in the crockpot and I might make some chana masala for lunches for the week later.

On friday night, I made fish tacos, a holdover from Cinco de Mayo. I didn't cook yesterday because we went to a gala for a children's theatre. Today, I made huevos rancheros for breakfast (eating it right now!) and i'm making an italian feast tonight for my mother in law ...chicken cacciatore, pasta, panzanella salad

I picked up a couple bison steaks a while back when I visited a bison farm for work (I'm a food editor for a regional magazine). I put them in the freezer and haven't made them yet. For some reason, I'm a little squeamish about it.

I'm running my first half marathon tomorrow morning, so my friend and I are making up a big batch of fresh homemade spaghetti sauce, homemade turkey meatballs for spaghetti and meatballs with salad and garlic bread.

I didn't cook anything yesterday, but I've been cooking/assembling all day. First was a week's worth of salads for lunch, then a week's worth of bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches for breakfast. Then I moved on to pasta with veggies in a lemon-wine-parmasan sauce and divided it into single portions. Now I'm doing easy chicken and dumplings with store-bought sauce, but homemade dumplings, with chicken picked from one I roasted last weekend.

Finally, I'm making a mango stirfry with shrimp from Cooking Light's Cooking through the Seasons tonight for dinner, plus roasted asparagus. Phew!

We had our engagement party last night, and I made a bunch of appetizers. (I'm not entirely sure why I was responsible for the food at my own engagement party, but oh well...)

I made caprese skewers, stuffed mushrooms, a veggie platter, bacon-wrapped asparagus, crab dip and shrimp cocktail. It was all delish, and we have no leftovers.

Therefore, I have to cook tonight .... or order Chinese food. Hmm...what to do?

We had no power all day yesterday, so cooking plans were destroyed.

Today, I just put an apple cake in the oven and I'm planning to make enchiladas (using the Pioneer woman's recipe) for dinner.

A couple years ago, I took a delicious salad to a Christmas party - it was greens, sauteed pears, toasted pecans and blue cheese with a honey mustard vinaigrette. People loved it.

Or, I would take something in a slow cooker.