Dinner Surprise!

Like most of my female friends and acquaintances I have fallen into the dinner rut.  You know the one.  We have spaghetti once a week because all I really have to do is brown some ground pork sausage and onions then boil water, throw in sauce and “ta-da”, dinner is served.  We have the same 7 or 8 dinners most of the time.  So yesterday I called mom and said, “I’ve got chicken what do I cook?”  She suggested a couple of things.  (I need to insert some background here… My mom is not a chef, will never be a chef, and has PERFECTED the recipe of burnt-on-the-outside-raw-on-the-inside-chicken.  But she is willing to try anything once and creative.  Give her a can of cream of mushroom soup and some meat, and she has dinner ready.  One of her suggestions was Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole.  I googled it and discovered I had all the ingredients, so that is what we had for dinner.  I really liked it.  My husband really liked it.  One out of 3 kids like it. (But really, that is every dinner.)  Then my husband says “you should try new recipes more often.”  He doesn’t remember last year when in a Pinterest flurry I made 12 freeze-ahead-crockpot meals.  All but one recipe was horrible.  The one that was not horrible was not great.  It was a waste of money and time!  I boycotted pinterest for 3 months.  I am afraid of new things, I like the old.  I can’t wait for it to be warm enough to clean off my grill and start grilling!