A Day Filler

I was milling in front of the television one day when my mother said: You need something to do. How about you cook meals for family?

Me: Really?

Mom: Yes.

Me: YES!!!!!!

Mom: I'll give you a budget of $40 a day, and you figure out what to cook for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Me: $40? That's kind of a lot.

Mom: Well...seafood can be expensive.

Me: Okay. I GET TO CONTROL THE FOOD!!!

So this is how, a few days ago, I came to be in charge of cooking for my family. I'm not saying this pridefully, as if an eighteen year old cooking for a four person household is some kind of revolutionary genius. In fact, for a summer-after-freshman-year-in-college, friends-all-having-jobs-or-activities, jobless me, this is really the main motivating factor for doing something productive. That, and chauffeuring my brother (but classifying that as 'productive' is a bit of a stretch).

I figure that with me being marginally productive, I should try to double it and type up the scribbled/copied (from the internet) recipes, how I altered them, and any problems I came across. Just in case any of my peers (or anyone else) gets a budget and a cooking mandate from their mother.