There are days that are so busy that cooking dinner is a chore. There are days when I just don’t feel like spending the time to make a proper dinner. Today is one of those. I have people coming over to dinner tomorrow night and today’s efforts have been toward making that dinner successful and not making tonight’s dinner successful. But it is a success and that’s because I plan for these evenings. Either I’ve made something earlier in the week and it gets a curtain call or I have frozen a dinner knowing that tonight will happen. Tonight’s dinner is a replay of last night’s shrimp Creole.

I’ve mixed the rice, creole sauce and shrimp together. I judiciously portion out a serving for myself and fill up the rest of my bowl with salad. I am definitely not as excited about it as last night but still it’s an easy way to stay on track.

Voila! Shrimp Creole with brown rice and salad (Act II.)

Planned-over shrimp Creole with salad

P.S. Other eating for the day include scrambled egg on toast for breakfast and deli ham with mustard on multi-grain sandwich round for lunch. Of course for before-sies I had popcorn and a glass of wine.