I am at heart, Amelia Bedelia!
Did you know that there are multiple ways to ruin Jello?
I, like Thomas Edison, now know a thousand ways to not make Jello... (I think the quote went differently, but you get the general idea!)
In one night I rendered two packets of Jello, useless!
I was making the big boxes of Jello-- the kind that take 4 hours to set up, and because I didn't plan enough ahead, I felt the need to start the Jello at a friends house during a playdate so it could begin set up there, and then continue the process at home. What I didn't take into consideration was the ride home with a bowl full of not-very-firm Jello sloshing around my backseat. And when I got home, it looked like there had been a homicide (cherry flavor!). There was no Jello still in the bowl. It would have made a perfect scene for a movie (you can picture the detectives approaching the scene of carnage and blood, only to have a young upstart dip his finger down and taste it, only to realize that the missing victim had either been killed with Jello, or some mom had had a really stupid idea!)
So when I got home, I decided to try again with a new box of Jello. Only this time I had considerably less time so I decided to put the Jello in the freezer to speed up the setting time. Jello, was not meant to be frozen. Stubbornly, I still maintained that the Jello was edible-- even though it was watery and of a strange consistency. I ate that whole bowl on my own (I also don't like to waste money).
You just can't cut corners on some things.
which brings me to my next tale:
Yesterday I made Richard some pizza dough. I was so excited about making dough. I have in fact gotten a little cocky about my pizza making skills. So I made dough at a friends house, and then when I got home I was afraid that the dough wasn't warm enough to really rise, so I put it in the oven, turned on the oven (intending to turn off the oven in a minute), and then guess what......FORGOT I put it in the oven until a nice round bowl of pizza crust started baking itself away to pizza land.
*sigh*
it keeps me humble.
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My freshman year of College I had a roomate who was making Pizza dough and put it in the oven on low to rize. Then another rommate came in and, without thinking, turned the oven up to pre-heat it to cook dinner. They noticed shortly afterwards, but not before the pizza dough had risen to 3 or 4 times what he needed. As he sat there pondering what to do with his extra dough, he came up with a brillian new idea: little balls of baked bread! He was very impressed with himself until we told him that he had just reinvented the roll.
I'm pretty sure that I have burned water before...the result of being distracted while cooking.:)
So this really isn't a comment for your post, I just wanted to let you know that I am going to be coming to visit Ruth with my two boys May 25 thru June 7. I hope that maybe we can meet up. e-mail me @ sokolowski.joy@gmail.com
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