This all started with a Christmas dinner, every year I end up sitting on the floor, surrounded by stacks of papers and recipes and I develop a timeline like I'm planning an invasion.

While this is a lot of fun there are always a couple of ah-hah! moments when I think 'I should have seen this coming'. Inevitably there's a few last minute adjustments and everything works out. Food gets on the table in a sorta-timely manner and no one's died of malnutrition yet but I thought it might make sense to write it up so that next year I wouldn't be starting from scratch again. 

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That lead me to the notion of saving menus. Because if the goal is to get great food on the table it's going to take more than just having a great recipe. It's how that recipe is executed and that (along with the cooks stress level) can easily be derailed by insanity in the kitchen.

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So, put on some music and let the dance begin....