Marvelous Monday Meals!

Marvelous Monday Meals is, indeed, marvelous. 

The tradition was begun in 2010 when my friend Lea and I decided to start getting together every Monday and making meals.  It was our goal to try new things -- fun things, crazy things, daunting things.  Delicious things.  We actually managed to do it almost every Monday for about 10 months. 

We had Chinese night with orange chicken, cauliflower fried rice, chow mein, and even home-made fortune cookies!  We had Baked Alaska...  Chicken Cordon Bleu...  Cheesy Potato Soup...  Broccoli Salad... Appetizer Night... and Breakfast for dinner (including dessert crepes for dessert!).  Mondays truly were culinarily marvelous. 

Then life started changing and Monday Meals got put on the back burner a lot, though we sometimes managed to have one every now and again.  But it's been quite a while...  Until today.  Today we had a Marvelous Monday Meal.  And it was awesomely fun!!  And so now we're talking about starting it up again -- not every Monday, but many Mondays.  And I have to say:  I'm excited! 

It's a lot of work to make and prepare (and keep up with a crawling baby!) but so worth it!!!  And I'm definitely grateful for Monday Meals -- both those in the past, and those (hopefully) in our future!  Good food, good friends, good memories.  Mondays have never been so good ;).

What are you grateful for today?