Didn't want to start a new thread.
My veggie garden is overflowing & wifey is overwhelmed by the amount of produce this season. We've been giving the overflow to friends & family. Yesterday was my day off so I decided to make dinner for the family & invite my Mom & sister to join us. This also got me in practice for tailgating. Started at 8 A.M. Diced up a cabbage & ham steak-made sauerkraut & froze it for future use at tailgate. While it was cooking, diced up tomatoes (Thank god for food processors) & made homemade sauce (a.k.a. gravy) & let simmer all day. Sliced up 3 zucchinis, then Breaded & fried them. Broke for lunch at noon after cleaning up used pots, pan & utensils. After lunch, made meatballs & baked them in the oven. While they were baking, put together a pan of zucchini Parmesan using some of the sauce & the breaded zucchini. Made a peach-blackberry-blueberry cobbler. Meatballs out of oven (& into the sauce) cobbler into the oven to bake. Cobbler out of the oven & cooling. The zucchini parm. casserole into the oven at 4:30. Italian sausages grilled on the gas grill, then into the sauce & also added peppers & mushrooms. Cooked pasta at 5:30 then had dinner.
Final comment: Like to cook , but could never do it as a profession as a 1 man operation. It was an exhausting day. Now have to go to work just to rest up for the weekend.