my cooking adventure

gosh, did that 'adventure' suck. do i plan on cooking anytime soon? NO. the only way u'll ever get me to cook is...hmm..either

1/ somebody's gonna be giving me a LOT of $$$;
2/ it's gotta mean a lot to somebody, or, rather, i want to impress somebody (be it family/friend/etc); or
3/ some random urge of generosity hits me..


now..to expand on the fiasco..

all started when i woke up feeling a lil lethargic and tired cuz of the lack of sleep. but whatever..just shook myself awake and went to start my day.

it started well enuff. had to make a few phone calls and get some details ironed out. then, had to get started on the dish that i had to bring for the potluck. i had to bring a meal dish, so being the idiot that i was i decided to do something adventurous...aka lasagna from scratch.

figured i had about 4 hours to make it, plenty of time. so i got all the ingredients and decided to start w/ the sauce. got out a can of tomato sauce. it didn't have an expiry date on it..and i figure it hadn't been in the cupboard for very long..boy, was i WRONG! apparently it's been in there for so long that i guess the gases in there..is there even gas in there?..decided to meld and grow together. so when i clamped on the can opener...BAM! it exploded. so w/ me yelling at the can, my mother came in to find half the kitchen in disarray. BUT, she was nice enough to help me clean up. =)

so then, i had to find a pot to cook the noodles in while i figure out what to do now that i had no tomato sauce. i found one on the stove...and figured it was dirty so i'd just wash it up first. simple enuff rite? WRONG...again. what i thought was water at the bottom of the pot was actually oil. and so as i was dumping the 'water' into the sink..i geniusly realized that it wasn't..and all the dishes that were currently residing the sink were all oily. ick! =| so MORE yelling on my part and grumbling cuz i HATE washing oily stuff. *sigh* more time wasted.

so then i just figured that i'd make another kind of lasagna that would look really pretty, but would take a lil longer to make..ok fine, a LOT longer to make. but decided against it like the next minute after, cuz logic kicked in and i just realized that there was NO way i had enough time to prep then actually make it. so back to step one.

looked around in the cupboard to see what i could make..and was gonna make another kinda of pasta, but then my mother suggested substituting cream of mushroom instead of the tomato sauce and still make the lasagna. at first, i was like..=|...cream of mushroom? lasagna's all about the tomato sauce?!

but then i was like why not..nothing else seems to be working..might as well. and so i did. and luckily it went much better after that. had to sub a whole bunch of stuff for others..so i ended up making a hodge podge lasagna..and just prayed that it wouldn't suck. cuz there was no way to try it out..w/o bringing it w/ a lil hole in the side! =T BUT, in the end, it turned out alrite. ppl thought it tasted alrite...and that's all that matters =)

so all went well yesterday..although i had to just get away from all the talking a few times cuz it was just getting too much. it was the lethargic-y feeling kicking in. =T although i'm generally a cheerful and up-beat person, i do tend to be a lil anti-social when i get super tired.

so no worries, if i just step away for a bit..ur welcome to come and join me, but it's just cuz there's too much noise w/ bunches of ppl talkn at once, and my brain can't comprehend it all sometimes. so i just wimp out and make it go away the easy way..i move away from it all. =T

the fireworks was pretty. although some of them had a good start..and a crappy end (i.e. how some of them were really pretty too look at..but didn't do much) =T *shrug* but i still enjoyed myself =)

but yeah, moral of this story is..well, at least for me...


cooking ≠ fun.