DinnersDoneRight, And: Our Canadians Return

I returned from Redmond/Kirkland and work and my monthly poker game at 10:00 Saturday. Everyone was still hanging out in the big bed. Andrew didn't want to go to the Sandy track meet - over an hour away and he was only going to run the 200, so we called Pablo and he made an appointment for us all to go to DinnersDoneRight. This is a new business that offers frozen dinners: You go and select some amount of dinners (each serving 4-6 people) from their May menu and create them there. We went in together on their package of 12 dinners for $170 so that we each only have to hide 6 meals in our freezer.

Each dish has a station where the ingredients are all layed out with easy instructions. Some are easier than others: The Maple-Mustard Glazed Balsamic Flank steak was simple. The Dijon pork chops were difficult because they were frozen, so didn't take to the breading easily. The Sicilian Meat Roll was messy, but Mali loved it. That was the last one, and Mali said, "I don't want to be done!" She had a great time. Andrew missed out and stayed home.
It was almost like a cooking class, in that we made things we don't normally do, with people there to help out. Pablo's favorite part is that they come around and clean up after you make each dish. Mine is that it is relatively inexpensive and that we don't mess up our own kitchen. Now we've got plenty of meals in the freezer to supplement our weekday standards of pizza, storebought rotisserie chicken, and Subway.

Last night we had dinner at Pablo's, where we tried out one of our two Sicilian Meat Rolls and their Roast Bacon Wrapped Pork, since they weren't already frozen. Nancy brought a salad, Susy made a blueberry pie, Mali made a small strawberry pie, and Alana brought cheese enchiladas and Lemondrops. Everything was great, though I did not get to taste Mali's delicious-looking strawberry mini-pie. The event was just a typical Saturday get together, enhanced by Wednesday's return from Ontario of a still slightly jet-lagged Paul, Nancy, Zoë, and Hannah.