This is by no means a cooking blog, but I have been making an effort to cook more often and diversify our meals. I make a mean turkey spaghetti, but that gets old pretty quickly. Wednesday night was a perfect example of this experience as a whole. I’d been planning on making shepherd’s pie for a month or so. I bought the ingredients two weeks ago. Finally I put the meat to thaw on Tuesday and forced myself to put it together Wednesday evening. We were almost side tracked yet again with an offer to meet friends at BW3s but we kept our resolve!
6pm – Arrive home, play with baby, say hello to husband
6:15pm – Get in the kitchen to put on the potatoes, brown the meat, and pre-heat the oven all the while thinking, it’ll be 5 minutes and I’ll get right back to Michael and Elijah.
6:45pm – The meat, peas, and broth are simmering, the potatoes are boiling, and Elijah is crying to be fed. Crap! Where did the time go?
7:05pm – Baby is in bed, mash the potatoes, throw it all in a casserole dish and put it in the oven.
7:10pm – Review the recipe again “just to be sure” and realize I left out the flour and carrots. Oops! I guess I don’t have a perfect memory after all.
7:25pm – Take it out to cool and eat!
Despite my recipe fail, it was super delicious. Luckily, this has been the trend in my new food ventures. I don’t get it quite right but it’s still edible. Lol. I have also made stroganoff sans sour cream, pancakes without syrup, and turkey burgers without buns. You work with what you’ve got, right?
Next up: Crock Pot Beef, Potato and Quinoa Soup
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