Cooking Catastrophes

Last night was a very humbling experience(s)...I had piano lessons and afterwards thought "I'll fix some soup really fast for supper, then start my list of things to do this evening." ha ha - should have just stopped there in thinking that it would be so easy.

Mess #1: I quickly put on a cheesy potato bacon soup that I purchased at a local Amish store and run upstairs to get some information off the internet I was needing. Lost total track of time - I have a really bad habit of this. Anyways, I suddenly remembered I had supper cooking as I smelled a certain burning odor. Too late. As I walked in to the kitchen...this is not an exaggeration - it was on fire. The cheese had boiled over - went all over the stove, and since I have a gas stove, what was still running over the sides was burning up the side of my pot. AGH!!!!! I hurriedly turned the stove off - which quickly put out the fire. Started cleaning up that mess.

Mess #2: After the whole cheese mess, I rather lost my appetite for supper, but I had to continue with the planned cooking process for the evening. Nathan has been wanting me to make ham salad. I should have known NOT to start after what had just happened. Advice to those that attempt this salad - don't make it unless you have a meat grinder. I naively thought that using my vegetable/cheese shredder would work. NOT. I had bologna all over the cabinet and floor. Will not try this again until my husband purchases that promised meat grinder.

Mess #3: Still did not learn my lesson that this was not my evening for cooking. I had some blueberries in the refridge that I have been planning to make muffins from a friend's recipe. Realized that I didn't have muffin cups - instead of just greasing the cups like a normal person would do, I decide to make a blueberry ripple cake. Halfway through the recipe I remembered that I used the white cake mix for another recipe a few weeks ago. Frantically I look thinking, just maybe I had purchased another one - I did, but it was chocolate. **sigh** Long story short - I concocted a rather interesting looking muffin - they taste great - look terrible. Even my husband was a little skepticle to try and he will eat about anything.

After telling my husband about my evening - his response - "If you cooked like this all the time, we'd be skinny!" Thanks sweetheart - I love you too!!!