Starting at 1:00, roasted cauliflower and broccoli 🥦 , skillet fried 🍄 mushrooms, baked sirloin steak with gravy, Chinese 🇨🇳 slaw and Bob Evans mashed potatoes at 11:00. (Before Heidi and I were married I took mashed potatoes in a crockpot to the Hackman Thanksgiving dinner. After several compliments, Heidi stated, “OMG, they are Bob Evans mashed potatoes! They have been a staple in our family ever since.)
Nina fixes dinner every Sunday evening for whatever family can attend. (The good news for me, I live next door,) As Rae, Sophie, Heidi and Nina sit around thew table and catch up, (The Highly Effective Rae just finished her Masters Degree and Sophie just completed her first semester at Indiana University.) Liam sleeps on the couch while Richard and I whine and complain about fantasy football.
My Dad used to call me on Sunday nights just to ask what Nina had prepared for us that day. She never disappoints.
And for dessert, she puts a yellow cake mix in a pie pan and then puts a can of peach and a can of cherry pie filling on top of that. Then bakes them and they are delicious as well.
This Boss of a mother-in-law does this each week just to provide for and spend time with her family. Did I make the move of a lifetime eleven years ago when I married Heidi, or what!?!
Walt’s Diner 