Several years ago my wife and her friends started a ladies dinner, for young professional women. It’s a group of close to 10-15 women who are all amazingly successful and come together to talk and support each other. I was lucky enough to cook for them and that is really one of the big starting points for what I have been doing lately and gave me the confidence to cook for bigger groups. I was asked to cook for another one of these dinners and was happy to accept the challenge.
I have become a little obsessed lately with putting peas into my meals, not sure why I just like the color green apparently. So it made sense to create a whole meal out of it, plus my wife loves split pea soup so this was easy to make.
This past weekend we were on our way to go and get breakfast at a coffee shop when I remembered a new restaurant had opened up close to where we lived that we had wanted to try. We walked into the Smith Cafe and immediately were impressed with the new decor and look of the place, we were immediately greeted and sat by a friendly staff member and we immediately loved the menu.
Tonight’s Sunday dinner was my first attempt at making Salmon burgers. The weather is perfect for grilling and red meat didn’t sound appealing, we haven’t had salmon for awhile so decided to try and make a salmon burger. This was surprisingly a quick and easy meal to make and turned out better then I was hoping for. This meal is healthy, quick, and good.
As Eddie has grown older we have been looking for more child friendly restaurants that we can go to. Trust me when you find the place you like they will get to know you because you will keep going back. Eddie likes to call Ingo’s the circle restaurant, it is in the shape of a circle so works out perfect. Not only does this place have great atmosphere, the staff is awesome, it also in my opinion has the best chicken sandwich in town.
When I grew up we always tried to have dinner together, it was a time to talk and be together as family. Now that I have a family of my own I understand more and more why my parents wanted to make sure that we always had dinner together. It was a time to talk and be together with no distractions. During the week things are always busy and hectic, but Sunday nights seem to always be a more relaxed and better time to reconnect with each other and have a great dinner. So I am going to try and do a weekly blog of our Sunday dinner.