DINNER - Sunday plus a birthday

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 The question is how to make a decent versus excellent Sunday/ birthday dinner with limited physical mobility? 

The oldest granddaughter just turned 13!! 

Dinner was great but not as homemade as it normally would have been.  I bought prepared mashed potatoes, gravy in a jar, salad in a bag, Texas toast, and an ice cream cake! Baked chicken breasts, asparagus and broccoli were easy enough to prepare at home with the help of other hands. The only thing I could do with one hand was the chicken. ( new recipe for the chicken that I will definitely do again.... pound a bit, season and bake at 450 degrees for only 20 minutes. Cover and let rest 15 min. Result: delicious moist chicken!!)

After all was said and done, it was a great meal.

Happy birthday Ava!  I found some extra long birthday candles so she could blow them out!  Some traditions are worth keeping!

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