Project 365 – Day 10

We are both blessed by and cherish our family meal times.  Most of us are together virtually every night of the week.  I came across this from a North Dakota State professor, for which most of these points are so obvious but are often overlooked or dismissed in today’s American culture:

• Family meals provide a sense of family unity and identity. Family meals become a vehicle for carrying on valued family traditions, such as having a particularly favorite dish on someone’s birthday or going to a favorite place to eat together on special occasions.
• Family meals give the opportunity to transmit the values and attitudes of a family from one generation to the next. Children can learn from parents and grandparents about what values are important to the family. Also, family meals are a wonderful way to link family members with their cultural and ethnic heritage, as differing foods may reflect the unique cultural traditions or ethnic tastes of a particular family’s background.
• Family meals also furnish a means for daily communication and strengthening family connections. Conversation around the dinner table allows give and take among family members and the chance to cultivate attitudes of patience and respect in communication.
• Family meals give a meaningful opportunity for family members to spend time together and enjoy one another’s company in a relaxed setting. Families should consider how to maximize the time they have together by encouraging positive comments, adjusting meal experiences to the family’s needs, and creating a warm and relaxed setting.

On this particular evening, we made one of our family favorites:  Homemade pizza cooked on the Big Green Egg.  It’s to die for (just like our time together)!  Special thanks go to my son-in-law Dale for being my chop-master.

Dale Preparing for Pizza

Fuji X100s, 23mm f/2.0, 1/55 sec @ f/2.8, ISO3200

Mark’s Big Green Egg Chicken Pizza

Fuji X100s, 23mm f/2.0, 1/100 sec @ f/2.8, ISO1600

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