Sentences with phrase «so by dinner time»

«You see,» my father explained every year as we sat down to eat, «this is the way to do it: a big breakfast to stretch your stomach, then no lunch, so by dinner time you're really ready for a full Christmas meal.»

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I have a hard time planning meals ahead due to my husbands work schedule, so I'm usually pulling meat out of the freezer around lunch time and trying to figure out how to make it something edible by dinner.

I want to make this for my dinner party but will have to make it in advance (ie an hour or so) is it possible to make to do, or will it be too wilted by the time I serve it?

Because by the time my ample butt gets home from work, errands, etc, I don't want to spend nearly an hour making dinner, and this sounds SO amazingly amazingly yummy, particularly since I'm trying * cough * to eat more veggies and less meat.

are so entertaining that I didn't even notice the time going by until my cat started smacking me in the head to remind me it's dinner time.

Back home I have made this couple more times, however all the time it so happened to be a dinner party and clicking step by step was near to impossible.

So yes, you can make it ahead of time, tonight or tomorrow, or early in the morning on thanksgiving day and by dinner time it should be settled and very easy to slice and serve.

The chapters are broken down by time, with recipes that can be prepared in under 15, 20, 30, and 40 minutes, so no matter how busy you are, you can get dinner on the table, whether it be smoky pepper and white bean quesadilla, butternut squash and sweet leek hash, or chickpea pasta with simple tomato sauce.

I wanted to find a way to make it in the slow cooker, so that I could prep it during nap time and have it nice and hot by dinner time.

We loved it so much, by the time we would finish our salads and at least 2 loaves of the bread, we'd be too full to eat our dinner!

Just made it - tastes great already but we haven't had dinner yet so I know it's going to be fab by the time we do, thanks!!

-LSB-...] October 9, 2008 by phdinparenting Tonight I needed some time with my kids and my husband needed to do some things outside in the garage, so I went the easy route for dinner.

When she wasn't doing that, she was so tired by dinner time there was a lot of foot dragging and power struggles just for the sake of having them sometimes.

You may have limited family time to spend with your child (by the time you get home from work and you eat dinner together as a family and go through your evening routines — make sure homework is done, school bags are packed for the next day, teeth are brushed, baths are done, and so on — there's very little time to sit and review schoolwork with your child); but you can try to look over what your child is doing with his tutor, and try to use free time on the weekends to incorporate fun into learning by playing math games, reading fun books and helping your child pick out books he likes to encourage reading and more.

Meal time can be such an overwhelming task some most of the time for me and I have tried to take on a more positive attitude of cooking in general so that by the time my husband gets home for dinner I...

By the time he comes home and has dinner with Jessa and the boys, there is only so much time for family bonding before the kids need to go to bed, and Ben needs to study.

The main course tonight will be brisket, and by the time his dinner guests arrive, almost 12 hours later, Eli's townhouse is so smoky that he's had to disable the alarm.

FORMER top David Paterson administration staffers Charles O'Byrne and Sean Patrick Maloney deep in conversation over dinner at Le Singe Vert in Chelsea... BILL and Hillary Clinton holding hands at Cafe Carlyle (chaperoned by Chelsea) as Kelli O'Hara, on maternity leave from «South Pacific,» did her caberet act... KATY Perry and Estelle «doing lemon drop shots and downing champagne» at Greenhouse... MATTHEW Perry jogging in Runyon Canyon in LA, and «stopping so many times to play with his iPod, he probably would've burned more fat off if he stayed home on the couch eating ice cream.»

Plan to arrive by 4 p.m. so you'll have plenty of time to settle in before joining us for a Western - style welcome dinner at one of our favorite Scottsdale restaurants.

By the time the hypothesis appeared in a popular book that was published in 1908, the burning - rate had already gone up significantly, so in accordance with that change they revised the doubling - time down to a few centuries, but it was still something of a scientific curiosity, the stuff of after - dinner conversations.

I would work until 5 pm, drive the 45 minutes home and then would cook dinner so it would be ready by 7 pm, have a shower, and then have about 1 hour to chill with my husband (boyfriend at the time) before I went to sleep and did it all again.

If you like a glass of wine in the evening, have it with dinner — around 6 p.m. rather than 11 — and drink in moderation, so it'll wear off by the time you lie down.

I really prepared for this move (we were in escrow for three months so we had the time...) by budgeting to eat out occasionally and a freezer full of freezer dinners ready to be thrown in the oven!

By then we still had about an hour and a half before dinner and were getting a little chilly so we found a nearby bar where we took our time warming up over a cold beer.

My husband has been so busy with his current rotation (Neurology), so I feel like by the time he gets home I need to have dinner on the table, he studies for a few hours and is off to bed and up again at 4:30 a.m. I am thankful next week is his last week of this rotation.

So typical, by the time we were done — the salad looked very different than what we enjoyed at dinner.

And then I am going to have dinner with my parents — It's so nice to live close by, so I can see them a couple of times a month.

Throw in some sweet romantic overtures that blossom ever - so - discreetly and the movie turns into a well - balanced meal, albeit one that feels a bit over-stuffed by the time the after - dinner mints are delivered.

One glaring problem is that you can't search for destinations by category, so when searching for «food» because it's dinner time, InTouch only returns destinations with «food» in the name.

We tried to write the first draft of More Than Two by working on it an hour a day or so, when we were both finished with our other work and had a bit of time after dinner, and the math showed us that at that rate, we might have a rough manuscript done in about six and a half years, give or take.

We have worked extremely hard to crate train him well and keep this up all the time by placing him in his crate at random points throughout the day when we're in the house, or when we're having dinner etc so he is quite good at being alone now.

Without stopping another time on the salt flat, we arrived at the hostel by 4 p.m. and were told dinner would be served in three hours so we could sit and have tea or something.

Last week was a funny one in Beach Cottage Land... different schedules, needing to fit Barley into our routine now, school sport carnivals for two of the Beach Cottage Crew and moi over to the city three times in one week — so the schedule was a bit upside down — normally it's bit more like — do the school run, go for a walk by the beach, come home, put the bomb site back together, do a bit of blogging, make the dinner, yadda yadda

By the time the hypothesis appeared in a popular book that was published in 1908, the burning - rate had already gone up significantly, so in accordance with that change they revised the doubling - time down to a few centuries, but it was still something of a scientific curiosity, the stuff of after - dinner conversations.

• Offer to baby - sit so parents can get a little break • Be a listening ear for a neighbor who is struggling • Coordinate a meal sign - up calendar for new parents or a neighborhood family in need • Organize a block party so families can meet each other • Start or participate in a carpool to help families • Increase social connections by introducing yourself to a new neighbor or saying hello to your neighbors by name • Get to know the children in your neighborhood and ask them how they are doing • Ask a family if they need something picked up the next time you run to the store • Run an errand, shovel snow, or do yardwork for a parent in your neighborhood • Invite a neighborhood family to your home for dinner • Donate children's used clothing, furniture and toys for use by another family

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.