I have been trying hard to cook more meals at home. For one its just healthier. Secondly, I’m trying to be more domestic and hone my housewife skills. Well yesterday it was about 4:00 and I was sitting working on my dissertation, when I realized it was close to time for Julian to come home. In order to look productive,I jumped up, freshened my lipstick and put on my vintage inspired dressing robe! Okay yes I was doing a lot but it just puts me in the proper frame of mind for preparing dinner for my hardworking man.
I decided to make Tilapia and smother it in the sauce from the pork chop recipe. I was very proud of the sauce and figured it’s an easy way to give baked Tilapia some flavor. Tonight was a dissertation work night so I really didn’t have the time or energy to do too much in the kitchen. In an effort to keep it simple I decided on salad, a bag of steamed mixed vegetables and rice. My thought was I could place the fish over the rice and cover it with sauce.
So now it’s preparation time! I gather all my ingredients and to my dismay I discovered I was out of boil-in-bag rice. Sweet baby Jesus! What am I going to do? Rice is an essential part of the menu! I search every cabinet just hoping that there was a random bag hiding somewhere. I was disappointed! There was no rice in a bag anywhere. The only thing I found was two bags of some random loose rice called Adolphus. Who the heck is Adolphus and what have you done with my Uncle Ben?
Sis you are not welcome here! I don’t even know where to begin with you. Yes ladies, your assessment is correct. I have Never Ever in my entire 23 years of existence (sigh..ok 34) made this loose stuff.
Well at this point I have no choice but to step out on faith and make a pot of Adolphus. I’m not excited at all about this because I’ve seen and eaten mushy horrible rice and I do not live for it! So I ask some questions, read some instructions (the bag tells you how to do it!), and said a prayer for Jesus to take the wheel and got to cooking.
Up until this point all was well, but now I need to figure out how long I’m suppose to let it cook. I’m standing over the stove and I reached for the open bag of rice. I pick it up from the wrong end and rice is now all over a hot stovetop! It’s frying! I’m trying to get the rice, but I have the bag in my hand. So what do I do? I sit it on the stove! Really? Sorry Adolphus. Forgive me… I didn’t mean to hurt you.
After cleaning up that disaster. I set the timer for the rice and fixed the rest of my meal. My rice actually turned out good! Although this wasn’t tragedy free, I realized that tragedies are common; we are all susceptible to them. So I won’t complain! I stepped out and tried something new, without a backup plan and I’m still alive! My take aways this time is that whenever you have a plan make sure you have the tools needed to carry it out. However, if you find yourself without a valuable tool, always be open to adjustments or substitutions. Sometimes that tool that you have become comfortable with is handicapping you or keeping you from a new experience.
Burn Baby Burn,
Lady D.Daphane
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