GET THE RECIPES
It’s Mother’s day! So it’s a great idea to get off your butt, order some flowers, and pamper your mother or perhaps the mother of your children or even the mother of your puppies like she deserves.
Here’s one way it can go down.
Breakfast: Strawberry Vanilla Pancakes
Let’s face it. You’re probably not going to impress mom, who has been feeding you before you were even born, by whipping out the big guns like eggs Benedict or steak and eggs with freshly squeezed mango juice. That’s morning-after-first-real-date material. For Mother’s Day, better to keep it simple, light, and delicious. Something so easy you can’t possibly mess it up. Something like Strawberry Vanilla Pancakes.
Lunch: Roasted Carrot Soup with Yogurt
Mother’s Day falls right in the middle of spring this year, just like it does every year, which makes planning a seasonally-based dish a snap. This easy Roasted Carrot Soup with Yogurt is one of my favorite light ways to enjoy the spring. Carrot is at its sweetest and most flavorful, and yogurt is a great way to add creaminess and tang without weighing things down.
Dinner: Chicken Cordon Bleu
Another dish that falls into the ultra-simple-but-ultra-delicious category. Six ingredients total, including salt and olive oil. 20 minutes of active prep time.
Chicken Cordon Bleu is the ultimate overachiever in the world of easy dinners. Didn’t your mom always want an overachiever?
Dessert: Bananas Foster Trifle
After a long day of cooking for the woman responsible for bringing you into this world, the last thing you want to do is get back up to slave over dessert. Make-ahead is the way to go, and if there is a king of the made-ahead-but-still-impressive desserts category, it’s the trifle. Layers of cream, cake, bananas, and booze (you need to get poor ol’ mama to nod off somehow, right?) stacked inside a pretty glass trifle dish (or if you want to be extra fancy, you can build ’em up individually inside sundae cups or wine glasses).
This Bananas FosterTrifle should do you nicely.
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