A couple of Sunday family meals

Now that we are living close to Lupe's family, we can have some big family meals at our house. Back in San Diego, I was always making big meals for just the two of us. No wonder why I gained so much weight. Now I can have fun and cook big meals, but I get to share them with lots of folks. Here are a couple of recent Sunday meals.

Lamb kebabs and grilled lamb

Lorena came over to help us with the prep work.

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She helped Lupe make all the veggie kebabs. I wanted to have the veggies separate from the Lamb, so I could get them all cooked properly. The lamb kebabs just had lamb and onions, while the veggie kebabs had red bell pepper, calabacita, red onion and mushrooms.

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Along with the kebabs, I grilled up part of a butterflied leg of lamb. I figured I could cook the lamb kebabs a little more than I would normally do with lamb, while I could have the grilled leg medium rare.

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I served it all up with some grilled asparagus, steamed veggies and smashed potatoes. Good stuff.

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Lasagna dinner

I've been working on refining the lasagna recipe. The first time I did lasagna for the family it turned out very loose. The flavor was great, but they were awfully runny. I've cut back on the meat sauce on the red lasagna and have upped the percentage of cheese, and bechamel. We did two types again; meat sauce and spinach.

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Along with the lasagna we had an antipasto salad, grilled asparagus and fettuccine with meat sauce for those who didn't want lasagna (or for those who just wanted to pack on the carbs).

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Another winner and everybody got a door prize......a big plate of lasagna to take home.