I am WAY more likely to make a yummy meal if I’m feeding people other than my own family. Anyone else? Or am I the only one? I’m probably the only one :/ We’re bringing supper to a friend today, so naturally, I’m making two batches of everything, so my family can also enjoy it! Hahaha! Yay for eating food that was planned ahead of time!
I’d like to say that preparing supper today was a gong show because of my kids, but it wasn’t. It was just me, haha! I take ownership. But I think it’ll all still taste good, knock on wood!
I hesitate to even say it, but I think the main part of the meal will turn out smoothly. Its cooking away in the crock pot, seemingly normally. Last time I cooked two batches of something, I attempted to cook them both on low for the same amount of time, but the one’s “low” was much hotter than the other, and it didn’t help that I clicked the other one on “keep warm” for the first 2.5 hours of the cooking time. Sigh. I am NOT a chef. But today, they are both on low. I checked. Twice.
This morning, I was prepping the other parts of the meal, and it just kept not going smoothly. I was a bit flustered to begin with. I’ve suspicious that Laela has a bladder infection :/ It wouldn’t really add up if she did, but I’m watching her closely. Definitely don’t want to let one get advanced. But I felt a bit off my game from that whole thing, and realized I had to stop pestering her and continue on with my day.
So I started chopping broccoli into two bowls. Remember, two batches of everything. A few minutes into that, the little boys were ready for naps, so I put them down. A few more minutes into chopping broccoli, I cut myself. Not bad, but enough that it wasn’t stopping right away. So I snuck back up into our room, careful not to wake Solly, and grabbed some bandages. I got everything washed up well and wrapped up, and once the coast was clear, I finished up the chopping. I went to get my pre-made broccoli salad dressing in my fridge, and noticed I didn’t have enough. No problem. I went to whip up another batch but of course, my ingredients were low. So I made a half batch and finished it up. At least I had enough, right? I went to stick the salads in the fridge, but had forgotten to add the red onion. So I pulled that out and chopped some up. Of course, the smell made me cry, as did the onion juices seeping into my freshly bandaged cut. Felt marvellous. But I sucked it up. That salad is amazing and entirely worth it.
I cleaned up my island and went onto the next thing. I made a dessert yesterday that needed a glaze, so I gathered up the few little ingredients. A person cannot mess up glaze, right? Even me! I didn’t mess it up. I did somehow manage to break a perfectly good spatula stirring it, though. Don’t ask me how. It was literally half a cup of icing sugar, vanilla, and milk, but ok… The dessert will still be good. I accidentally doubled a chunk of it, lol, but it was a delicious chunk so I’m not too worried. It did, however, make the dessert spill over in the oven. I was lazy enough not to clean up the dish last night, also, so the plastic wrap was fully cemented to it. But like I said, the actual dessert itself should be yummy. I hope, haha! Questioning a few things now.
The last thing I prepared today was some chopping pineapple. We got these weird pineapples that do not look ripe AT ALL, but I figured I’d give them a try before sending Brady to Costco on his way home to pick up the pre-chopped stuff. I grabbed my spiral pineapple slicer and a cutting board to get things going. I normally do my chopping and preparing just right on my butcher block island top, but for really messy things, I use a cutting board, just to contain the pieces or juices. Well this pineapple completely surprised me! The juices overflowed with speed that send them pouring long past the cutting board and straight onto the floor. Ack! Its a good problem to have, let’s be real. Your pineapple is TOO juicy? No such thing. So I grabbed a bunch of paper towel and prepared for the next one to be the same juiciness. Even with my preparedness, the second pineapple flowed along my island and onto my floor. It was like it was laughing at me. Jerk pineapple. It even had the nerve to pour its sugary goodness into my wound that was still pounding from its onion bath earlier.
My dishes were done before my supper prep began, and I’m sure you can imagine my kitchen is now a total mess. I’m ok with that, though. My food is prepared, and its going to be delicious. I hope. I think. I should double check on that crock pot…..
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Side note: Just in case anyone wanted to know, in the middle of writing this post, Laela had a very successful bathroom trip, so I think the hypothetical UTI is just that – hypothetical. Yay for my little potty trainer still being able to pee!