bon appetit

neither of the kids had school today.  jeremy had to work so i was on my own.  thinking myself wise, i decided to take both kids to do BJs grocery shopping during the day today, rather than waiting for the regular saturday + day before easter insanity that is to be expected tomorrow.

the kids really like BJs, especially when the food sample stations are set up.  Q berated one lady today because she only had one sample piece of toast on display and we clearly require two, one for him and one for his sister.  he was also dismayed that he had to wait ten minutes for the shrimp scampi lady to finish cooking the shrimp.  i had to promise him we'd come back for shrimp.  he kept asking if ten minutes was done.  we finally made it back to shrimp lady, and Q met his new favorite dinner: skrimp (aka strimp.)

he insisted that we must have strimp for dinner.  and he really, really likes to help cook.  so we cooked up some spaghetti and started on the skrimp.  i was allowed to put in the olive oil.  Q insisted on doing everything else.  i monitored the addition of garlic, spices, and cooking wine, but he kept adding salt and pepper when i wasn't looking.  i'm really not sure how much he put in altogether.

the strimp was actually very tasty.  it didn't taste too salty, but now, 5 hours after dinner, i am working on my 3rd glass of diet coke in an hour.

and Q wants skrimp for dinner tomorrow night too.  this time with olives.