Mom's Takeout!

II've been cooking for a long time now--seems like forever--and recently I've been given the awesome challenge of preparing food to go. Me: Take-out Chef! Sparing Collin some of the financial burden of living on his own, I determined to help in some small way and came up with the idea of cooking dinner for him and Maddie. So, I cook and they pick up! Voila! Mom's Takeout was born!

             Here's Mom! That's me, and I'm definitely not scurrying around the kitchen just yet!

This was an easy to make dinner of chicken and shrimp kebabs grilled on a charcoal cooker with added pineapple for yummy flavor. I laid them on a bed of greens. Food is ready to go!

Here, I made chicken and mushroom crepes with a Mornay sauce. These were fun to make and fairly easy since I was able to make the crepes ahead of time and fill later, making last-minute preparation much less hectic. The kids loved them!

Oh this was good! I seasoned chicken paillards with salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning; then I lightly floured them and seared them quickly in a skillet. I laid them on a baking sheet, spread homemade pizza sauce on top, added fresh mozzarella and cooked them quickly in a hot oven til the cheese melted. I topped them off with spinach and arugula, and sprinkled them with shredded Parmesan cheese. I got this idea from Rachael Ray and it's going in my "Recipes to Keep" folder. So good!

This "to-go" meal featured juicy, charcoal grilled butterflied leg of lamb that I seasoned with rosemary, lots of fresh garlic, lemon juice, olive oil and salt and pepper. I cooked Yukon Gold potatoes until they were just right and slathered them with butter, salt and pepper. The bright green asparagus was gently baked until tender with a nice spritzer of lemon juice at the end of cooking. A meal to remember!