Thursday, February 8, 2007

Zaza gets domesticated

Yesterday I finally got completely sick and tired of eating junk food and never packing lunch for school. I decided to do something about it, and because I'm the type of person who doesn't do things half-way, I decided to cook enough food last night to last for the whole month so every day I would have healthy, nutritious and delicious food to eat.
I started out by making a huge casserole dish of rice pudding, and while it was baking in the oven I used random leftovers and made a huge lasagna casserole. While that was baking in the oven I made a big bowl of vanilla pudding. Then I decided to make muffins. Halfway through I realized we had no eggs or chocolate chips, which the recipe called for.
Not to let things get me down, I googled egg substitutes and found I could put a mashed banana in my recipe in place of an egg. As for the chocolate chips, I found a bag of truffles someone had given me that had melted together, and I shaved off chocolate curls and threw them in the batter. By the time the muffins were baking I had had enough of cooking, so I quit for the night.

To my great disappointment, the muffins were flat. Completely, totally flat. The lasagna casserole was sunken in and looked kind of dry and burnt. The rice pudding looked puffy and burnt. Oh well, I thought to myself, at least they taste good, and boy are they nutritious! Tomorrow I will finally have good food to eat at school!
The only problem was, I slept in this morning and took too long in the shower, and as I wandered into the kitchen I looked out the window and there was my carpool sitting patiently in the driveway. I barely had time to throw a few things in my bag as I raced out the door.
So I'm back to square one again. No breakfast, no lunch, and to top things off, for some reason today I put on the most uncoordinated outfit I have ever worn in my entire life (no joke). To top that off, I only have 10 more minutes before I have to go to badminton class and prove that I don't just look uncoordinated, I am uncoordinated.
Man oh man. Maybe I should just stick to things I am good at.
On second thought, that wouldn't be any fun at all. And I really wouldn't have anything to eat at school. So maybe I should try again tonight. Maybe I should get a recipe. And maybe I should follow it. That's a novel idea!
Definately not one I have tried before.

2 comments:

Raven said...

I have faith in your domestic abilities. After all, I'm a chauvinist anti-feminist, so I'm bound to believe that all women can cook.

Just remember - it's like chemistry at home!

Anonymous said...

Wow Heather, all that food sounded really good shame it didn't completely work out. You could always be boring and take sandwiches to school..... second thoughts, its probably not you is it! Georgina