Today while living in the windy city, i.e Sahuarita, I learned a few things......
First its extremely hard to photograph wind.
Second as I was cyber stalking my favorite cooking websites;
Is AWESOME!
I learned that I spend far more time in researching a meal, than in actual preparation of said meal.
I'm not sure if I can count it as number three, since I already "knew" it but.....while following any given recipe to a "T".....I have an approximate 43% chance of it coming out correctly. I'm beyond my spaghetti and hamburger helper days but, Rachel Ray I am not!
Which leads me to lesson number four, not everything can substitute for everything......to those not cooking impaired that may seem like a rambling string of words....to those of us that think baking soda and baking powder gotta be the same thing and sometimes it might be okay to use water in the place of milk; that statement made perfect sense! SO, just in case it ever comes up.....chili powder and cayenne pepper not exactly the same thing. Both spices, both spicy...who knew?!
After some meat washing and seasoning repair work, some kind of roasted dinner is done. (I mis-made and then misplaced the recipe; there are way too many sites online!)
Scout says dinner is awesome, actually she said "Mom this steak is Great!" I'm taking that as a compliment even though I made chicken :(
My fifth learning of today:
Although Pinterest has expanded my cooking/crafting/money saving abilities, I'm beginning to think it may have taken over a large portion of my life. I can say the "lost time" is an investment in the betterment of Jodi, that line of thinking allows me to sleep well at night. The decision had to be made today (while the baby was napping) to wash off the funk and attempt to regain a non-foot kinda smell or......continue on the Jodi self improvement plan (which closely resembles Pinning). Today I learned smelling like boiled cabbage...it's not that bad :)
Anyone not familiar with the art of pinning....don't google it!
Lastly I learned the kids love me no matter what! Overlooking the before mentioned scent issue, with hair looking like who-dun-it, no make up on, still sporting last nights pajamas at 5 pm....basically I'm a hot mess! Everyone of my children welcomed my "I'm so happy you're home" kiss without any eye rolling and kissed me back! Oh the joys of unconditional love.
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