I generally only make an organized "to-Do" list as a way to get out of doing things -- I make it really long and complicated and involved and boring so I feel like I'm doing some work, when all along I just meant to blow the lot of it off. I do kind of have a mental checklist running in my head at all times, which will keep rewinding and replaying until I get stuff done. It would actually bug the heck out of me until I got the next thing done, so I could check it off in my head and have a little easier time remembering the next five things. Post-baby, however, all bets are off. Last week, I had a nagging suspicion that there was Something Important I Hadn't Done, and found out when I woke up the next morning I had turned off the crockpot after making a lovely soup for the next night's dinner, and never actually got the full crockpot put in the fridge. ... And I'd been lusting after soup for two weeks, so to lose a whole lovely batch of it was Not Fun!
It was kielbasa and lentil, so it wasn't like I spend a lot of time on it, but still it was disappointing. I was looking forward to it. Fortunately, I buy in bulk, so I just unthawed the other half of the kielbasa and made more, but still, it's the principle of the thing! Lucky it was something cheap, if I had ruined a beef soup with $50 worth of fresh veggies, I would be MAD!
**nod*** especially since when I make beef soup, I start out with one pot, and by the time I have added 1 lb. mushrooms, 3 turnips, 3 small rutabagas, chopped fine, 3 parsnips, 1 very large potato, half a bag of baby carrots, some barley, orzo, roasted kasha, Dijon mustard, red wine vinegar, whatever fresh herbs were available at the store, and odds and whatnots of leftover frozen stuff (peas, etc.), I usually have 3 pots worth.
What can I say? I don't know how to cook things in small batches. It's in the genes. **shrugs**
Lucky for me, Bryan is a good cook, because I can't cook on a daily basis, but I can throw together a mean pot of soup, on occasion. Or a chocolate cake. ;)
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Date: 2006-09-03 09:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-09-04 05:44 pm (UTC)Beef Soup is manna from heaven... that would be a travesty!
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Date: 2006-09-04 06:38 pm (UTC)What can I say? I don't know how to cook things in small batches. It's in the genes. **shrugs**
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Date: 2006-09-04 06:59 pm (UTC)Sounds delicious!
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Date: 2006-09-04 07:24 pm (UTC)Lucky for me, Bryan is a good cook, because I can't cook on a daily basis, but I can throw together a mean pot of soup, on occasion. Or a chocolate cake. ;)