* get up early to get the gardening done before the insane heat (and yes, I know I was complaining about the cold two weeks ago, but I'm pretty sure there's something between wearing sweaters and 100 degrees)
* come inside and have a refreshingly light breakfast
* get bread going in the bread machine
* fix a stir-fry for lunch to use up some of the pea pods from the garden
* make pineapple-mint jelly
* put dinner in the slow cooker to be done & waiting for us by evening
* enjoy a slice of fresh bread with pineapple-mint jelly as an afternoon snack.
* have a terrific dinner waiting by the end of the day.
* spend the evening relaxing
The reality:
* Wake up at 5:00. Decide that gardening is stupid. Roll over and go back to sleep
* Wake up at 5:30. Decide sleep is a lost cause, might as well go work on the stupid garden as long as I'm up.
* Pull weeds in the garden.
* Pull more weeds in the garden
* Wonder if we should give up and just eat the weeds
* Stir up the compost bin. Discover more bean sprouts growing in the compost bin. Make a mental note to never throw beans in the compost bin again. Discover the compost bin is clogged at the bottom--where it's supposed to be "easily removed" according to packaging claims. Get gloves and trowel and start digging.
* Set a new record for the earliest I've been completely filthy
* Wash
* Fix a smoothie with soy milk, frozen cherries, almonds, and frozen bananas. It's healthy but flavorless. Drink anyway.
* Pick mint
* Wash mint and remove stems. Totally underestimate how much 2-3 ounces of mint is.
* Pick more mint.
* Totally lose interest in cooking lunch. Opt for salad instead, using equal parts lettuce & pea pods.
* Forget to start bread.
* Throw dinner into the crock pot--quinoa casserole. Don't look up cooking time on quinoa.
* Following recipe directions, cook 1 1/2 cups of mint leaves in 2 cups of pineapple juice while stirring constantly. Get sinuses completely cleared.
* Let mint/pineapple juice steep, then drain. Then on a flamingly hot summer day, stand over stove stirring boiling jelly to get 3 lousy half-pint jars
* Remember bread. Throw into bread machine.* Realize quinoa cooks much faster than other grains. Casserole is done 3 hours too early. Turn crockpot to "keep warm."
* Three hours later
remove baked bread-like blob from the bread machine.* Decide to try the darned bread anyway as there's nothing else to put the jelly on.
* Discover the jelly tastes a lot like lemon. It's good, but it still tastes like lemon.* Discover the bread tastes a bit like a cracker. Good, but it still tastes like a cracker.
* Serve a dinner of quinoa spackle, cracker bread, and pineapple jelly masquerading as lemon jelly.
* Decide to go to bed at 8:00 and start over tomorrow.....
4 comments:
You bread picture brightened up my husband - he had an extremely rare bread failure recently. Probably the only pound of combined ingredients that came out weighing 10 pounds.
He's glad he's not alone. I hope tomorrow is better!
Oh, Toni, this would have been a brilliant post anyway. But that bread picture! It really made my morning. It reminds me of the time my housemate forgot to put the stirrer in the bread machine; the plan was fresh bacon sandwiches to ease the post-party hangover. Of course, she was somewhat tipsy when setting up the machine, and the result was more Deformed Pancake.
Not the best day ever, that's for sure. The jelly looked like it would be minty-licious, too. Darn.
lmao - sorry your day sucked, but it made a really good story!!
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