I forgot to add another cooking mishap for Megan. Poor kid is going to have all this stuff that people know that she wishes they didn't, but I think it's cute. So, for those who read, please don't tease her.
First of all I want to say that Megan really does a good job of cooking, but like all of us learning something she makes mistakes along the way. She is learning a lot of cooking this summer and as a result has a higher concentration of mishaps than she would under normal circumstances.
Now for the story...
I was busy chatting with a friend onlie whom I hadn't chatted with for quite some time and asked her to make rice casserole for dinner. For those who don't know what rice casserole is, it's made of rice, hamburger and corn then topped with cheese. Pretty simple dish. Anyway, so I ask her to get out a package of hamburger from the freezer, tell her how to defrost it in the microwave and continue on with my chat.
Without too much convincing she gets up and does what I ask. Sometimes this convincing is a task unto itself, pretty normal. So, she comes back later and says that the meat is still fairly frozen on one side. I tell her to flip it over and run it a different amount of time for defrost in the microwave, which she does. She comes in and tells me that it's still frozen after the second try. Now I'll admit I'm not paying as much attention to this as I should have, I should realize at this point that something isn't right, but I'm really enjoying my chat and I just tell her to put it in the pan anyway and, as it fries, it will defrost what's left and it'll be just fine.
She comes back several minutes later and says that it's not coming apart-I can't think of why this wouldn't work as I've repeated this exact process literally hundreds of times before, maybe thousands. Still, I tell her to keep working on it and I go back to my conversation. I tell her she might want to turn up the heat ever so slightly. We have a gas stove, so you don't want to turn it up too much as it makes a big difference.
She comes in about 5 minutes later and says that the meat just isn't coming apart and asks if she can cut it with a sharp knife. Now I'm really starting to realize that something is wrong, though for the life of me I can't figure out what that may be. So with great annoyance I get up from the chat I'm having and head into the kitchen. When I reach the kitchen I look in the pan and immeadiately two things happen. I now understand why the meat isn't working like it should and I begin laughing hysterically, I'm talking about instant tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.
By now you're probably wondering, what did I find? Well, poor Megan had gotten out the wrong type of meat, she had picked out a package that contained two steaks and was actually frying them up. I laughed and laughed. I had to help her fix it of course and we had rice casserole anyway.
The steaks went into the refrigerator.
So there you have another cute story about Megan, who is full of cute and funny stories, though she doesn't realize it most of the time...
Monday, July 26, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Megan's cooking what??
Cute story about Megan.
Yesterday we were making macaroni and cheese from scratch, we were making a pretty large batch so that we could have it for dinner and then quite a bit of leftover to freeze.
I put the pot on to boil with water for pasta and then turned my attention to other things. I asked Megan to put in a stick of butter and four Tablespoons of flour, which she did. Then I turned around to start stirring the mixture and to get started on the next step, which is adding cream cheese, milk and salt. When I turn around, there is no pot, so I look over the kitchen and find the pot, not worrying about it at all cause I never asked her to turn on the heat.
The pot was empty. Now I'm wondering what in the world happened? I go over to the stove where the water is getting warmer, thankfully not to warm yet and there is the stick of butter floating and four little clumps of flour, all gratefully floating. After laughing myself silly, I moved the butter and flour over to the other pot where it should have been to begin with and thankfully nothing was worse for it. However, it was soooo funny. Poor Megan.
Yesterday we were making macaroni and cheese from scratch, we were making a pretty large batch so that we could have it for dinner and then quite a bit of leftover to freeze.
I put the pot on to boil with water for pasta and then turned my attention to other things. I asked Megan to put in a stick of butter and four Tablespoons of flour, which she did. Then I turned around to start stirring the mixture and to get started on the next step, which is adding cream cheese, milk and salt. When I turn around, there is no pot, so I look over the kitchen and find the pot, not worrying about it at all cause I never asked her to turn on the heat.
The pot was empty. Now I'm wondering what in the world happened? I go over to the stove where the water is getting warmer, thankfully not to warm yet and there is the stick of butter floating and four little clumps of flour, all gratefully floating. After laughing myself silly, I moved the butter and flour over to the other pot where it should have been to begin with and thankfully nothing was worse for it. However, it was soooo funny. Poor Megan.
July 2010 update
I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I’m beginning to enjoy writing them. Hopefully all is well with you and your family. I’d love to hear from you anytime you might like to call, write or whatever.
This month has flown by so quickly, I can’t believe it’s already over! I realized yesterday that this is the last week of the month, but yet it seems like July has just begun. It has been a busy month. I started two new classes in school, Creative Writing and my next math class. I’m taking the writing class for fun, but the math class is of course required. I’m pretty bummed out about that, but I still have three more math classes after this one, so I’m doing my best to put on my happy face and have good thoughts. This math class seems less difficult than my previous one, which I spent as much time on as I normally would three or four classes. It was pretty crazy. This is builds on what I did in the last one and I think my brain is a little more accepting of what it’s trying to teach me.
I took my daughter Megan into the Dr. for a checkup and also for shots, but mistakenly believed that somehow the Dr. office knew her shot history due to having given it to the school (not sure why in the world I would have thought that) and they didn’t bother telling me that she needed her shot history (though I specifically told them that’s why I was coming in) so she didn’t get any shots that time. Now I have to take her back and get the shots anyway. She can’t go back to school until she has them.
Megan also went to Girl’s Camp for the first time. She had a really great time. The theme was “Valiant for Courage” and they learned much that would help them to be just that in today’s world. Megan said that other than the bugs she had a good time. She was so tired when she came home however because she was in a tent with other girls who would stay up and laugh until early morning (like 1am) and then they had to get up at 6 or 7am. Megan has been sleeping about 10 hours a night if I let her sleep it out, so you can imagine her exhaustion. My word how she is growing; like a weed sometimes. In fact, at her Dr. appointment, they measured her and with her shoes on and mine off she is only a few inches shorter than me. I always knew she would be taller than me, but I guess I didn’t want the day to come. I will be soon be the shortest person in the family, again.
Andrew leaves for Scout camp today right after Church. They will be there until Saturday some time, though I don’t know what time that will be. I’m not sure if they’ll need me to pick them up or not, but I know that I won’t be dropping them off, though I’m tempted to follow so that I know where I’m going if I have to pick them up.
We have lost power four times this month for a significant amount of time. Once was just out of the blue, no storm or anything for about four hours. We weren’t prepared when the electricity cut off our water supply too. I’ve been without power many times, but always had water…now we are trying to figure out what we can do to store up water for showers etc. and also to find some alternate source of power. Ultimately I suppose we’ll be buying a generator. We’d also like to get solar panels with a battery to store excess power at some point, but those are still pretty expensive.
We think we may have had a funnel cloud or something come through the north side of our house. Our garden was laid down in a circular pattern, thankfully it recovered, and our trees and such were all missing limbs on the north side of the house, just a few yards away were other trees with no damage whatever, so we are pretty sure something came by. Thankfully, nothing was hurt too bad except for one small tree, which we will cut up and use for firewood.
Yesterday I got on the mower and asked Andrew to show me how to mow the lawn. It’s too tall, he doesn’t always have time to do it and Megan isn’t allowed to as yet. I thought, “How hard can it be, you sit there, turn on the blades and ride around till you are done.” HA! If I had hired someone to do what I did and it looked like what mine did when I was done, I would have fired them. It’s by far the worst looking job I’ve ever done, no comparison. It was much harder than it looks and I even damaged a drain pipe…oops. Thankfully it wasn’t too bad and no real damage was done to the lawnmower. The drain pipe suffered a small chunk now missing. I felt better when Andrew said he had done something similar with a different drain pipe. I can see now why he doesn’t want Megan to do it. I also see why he says long pants and tennis shoes are pretty much required. Another thing we need to get is some kind of ear protection, man that’s loud. My ears were ringing when I was done. The ground is terribly uneven, there’s lots of objects to go around and I wasted a lot of time going over ground already mown because I couldn’t figure out how to do it without doing so. It was crazy. Thankfully I was spared the front yard. Living on a busy highway we get lots of traffic and I wouldn’t want people to stare at my poor job…hahaha, yes, it was that bad. It probably wouldn’t look so bad, but the clippings are just left there and with so much area to cover, we don’t even try to rake them up. Andrew says the front yard is actually harder because of the steep hill we live on. There are fewer things to go around though, so that’s good. Still…I’m glad I didn’t have to do it. He was so nice to finish what I had started!
OK, so that’s probably enough about me. Today I’m talking in Sacrament Meeting and also teaching the Young Women’s lesson. My talk is about enduring to the end and my lesson is on exaltation. It’s funny how those two are so connected. If we are faithful and endure to the end, we receive exaltation. I won’t add the talk this time because it’s quite long. I was asked to give a 15-20 minute talk. If you are interested in it, let me know and I’ll send it to you. J
This month has flown by so quickly, I can’t believe it’s already over! I realized yesterday that this is the last week of the month, but yet it seems like July has just begun. It has been a busy month. I started two new classes in school, Creative Writing and my next math class. I’m taking the writing class for fun, but the math class is of course required. I’m pretty bummed out about that, but I still have three more math classes after this one, so I’m doing my best to put on my happy face and have good thoughts. This math class seems less difficult than my previous one, which I spent as much time on as I normally would three or four classes. It was pretty crazy. This is builds on what I did in the last one and I think my brain is a little more accepting of what it’s trying to teach me.
I took my daughter Megan into the Dr. for a checkup and also for shots, but mistakenly believed that somehow the Dr. office knew her shot history due to having given it to the school (not sure why in the world I would have thought that) and they didn’t bother telling me that she needed her shot history (though I specifically told them that’s why I was coming in) so she didn’t get any shots that time. Now I have to take her back and get the shots anyway. She can’t go back to school until she has them.
Megan also went to Girl’s Camp for the first time. She had a really great time. The theme was “Valiant for Courage” and they learned much that would help them to be just that in today’s world. Megan said that other than the bugs she had a good time. She was so tired when she came home however because she was in a tent with other girls who would stay up and laugh until early morning (like 1am) and then they had to get up at 6 or 7am. Megan has been sleeping about 10 hours a night if I let her sleep it out, so you can imagine her exhaustion. My word how she is growing; like a weed sometimes. In fact, at her Dr. appointment, they measured her and with her shoes on and mine off she is only a few inches shorter than me. I always knew she would be taller than me, but I guess I didn’t want the day to come. I will be soon be the shortest person in the family, again.
Andrew leaves for Scout camp today right after Church. They will be there until Saturday some time, though I don’t know what time that will be. I’m not sure if they’ll need me to pick them up or not, but I know that I won’t be dropping them off, though I’m tempted to follow so that I know where I’m going if I have to pick them up.
We have lost power four times this month for a significant amount of time. Once was just out of the blue, no storm or anything for about four hours. We weren’t prepared when the electricity cut off our water supply too. I’ve been without power many times, but always had water…now we are trying to figure out what we can do to store up water for showers etc. and also to find some alternate source of power. Ultimately I suppose we’ll be buying a generator. We’d also like to get solar panels with a battery to store excess power at some point, but those are still pretty expensive.
We think we may have had a funnel cloud or something come through the north side of our house. Our garden was laid down in a circular pattern, thankfully it recovered, and our trees and such were all missing limbs on the north side of the house, just a few yards away were other trees with no damage whatever, so we are pretty sure something came by. Thankfully, nothing was hurt too bad except for one small tree, which we will cut up and use for firewood.
Yesterday I got on the mower and asked Andrew to show me how to mow the lawn. It’s too tall, he doesn’t always have time to do it and Megan isn’t allowed to as yet. I thought, “How hard can it be, you sit there, turn on the blades and ride around till you are done.” HA! If I had hired someone to do what I did and it looked like what mine did when I was done, I would have fired them. It’s by far the worst looking job I’ve ever done, no comparison. It was much harder than it looks and I even damaged a drain pipe…oops. Thankfully it wasn’t too bad and no real damage was done to the lawnmower. The drain pipe suffered a small chunk now missing. I felt better when Andrew said he had done something similar with a different drain pipe. I can see now why he doesn’t want Megan to do it. I also see why he says long pants and tennis shoes are pretty much required. Another thing we need to get is some kind of ear protection, man that’s loud. My ears were ringing when I was done. The ground is terribly uneven, there’s lots of objects to go around and I wasted a lot of time going over ground already mown because I couldn’t figure out how to do it without doing so. It was crazy. Thankfully I was spared the front yard. Living on a busy highway we get lots of traffic and I wouldn’t want people to stare at my poor job…hahaha, yes, it was that bad. It probably wouldn’t look so bad, but the clippings are just left there and with so much area to cover, we don’t even try to rake them up. Andrew says the front yard is actually harder because of the steep hill we live on. There are fewer things to go around though, so that’s good. Still…I’m glad I didn’t have to do it. He was so nice to finish what I had started!
OK, so that’s probably enough about me. Today I’m talking in Sacrament Meeting and also teaching the Young Women’s lesson. My talk is about enduring to the end and my lesson is on exaltation. It’s funny how those two are so connected. If we are faithful and endure to the end, we receive exaltation. I won’t add the talk this time because it’s quite long. I was asked to give a 15-20 minute talk. If you are interested in it, let me know and I’ll send it to you. J
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