your goose in the oven made the skin crispy just like you insisted the orange sauce bubbles furiously as the wild rice simmers and the salad won't get anymore tossed while you serve the chilled wine ignore those pitiful cries from the poultry-less pup even if the pudding’s a bust there’s no danger of being underfed.
When I lived with my parents and daughter for a few years after my husband's death , I cooked a traditional several course Sunday dinner almost every week.