This award was given to me by Ryan Ashley Scott at Optimistic Cynicism. Thank you! I was also given this award over on my other blog, so I’m splitting things up a bit and sharing 5 things about myself on each blog. I’m also passing the award onto 3 other bloggers on both of my blogs.
So, here are five honest things about me:
1. When I got married, I was able to make baked beans from a can, macaroni and cheese from a box and brownies from a mix. Not wanting to live forever on these foods, I started reading the cookbooks I got as wedding presents and experimenting in the kitchen. It took several years before I really learned to cook.
2 One of my early experiments was microwave meatloaf. Unless you need material to build a house with, do not make this!
3. I once melted a very large Tupperware bowl in my oven. I was trying to get bread dough to rise in a warm oven, but I forgot to turn off the oven. Melted dripping plastic is most easily cleaned out of an oven if you let it cool first. Live and learn – it’s the way I do it most often.
4. A great way to get your husband to take you out for dinner is to go ahead and put the casserole in the oven, but forget to turn the oven on. Hungry hubby won’t want to wait another hour for it to bake and will take you to the Mexican restaurant for fajitas. As a bonus, dinner for the next night is all ready and waiting in the fridge.
5. Our first apartment had a smoke detector very near the kitchen. Well, everything was near the kitchen. I’m not sure that the entire place was even 400 square feet. We had people over for dinner often (I was learning to cook, remember?) and it was not an uncommon occurence for me to set off the smoke detector as they were coming in. Embarrassing, but since most college students will take any free meal, I never ran any of them off this way.
I am passing this award on to:
Thank you!
And that smoke detector story is our exact occurrence at our house! We go through so many batteries!
So funny!
I melted a plastic tupperware of cookies in the oven whilst I was assembling my first ever batch of manicotti. The smell. Oh the smell. Almost as bad as the self-cleaning cycle.
Thanks for the award. Your list was fantastic. You seem to be a great cook now! Thanks for sharing!
I made Hamburger Helper, tacos,spaghetti and frozen pizza. Then I started cooking and made really wonderful chicken piccata, chicken parmesan, shrimp scampi…now we own a restaurant and if we don’t eat there, it’s back to the old standbys.
Love the “forget to turn the oven on” story!
That makes me remember when we first got married–I stopped up the sink disposal and set off the fire detector in one week.
Great story! My mother barely knew how to boil water when my parents married. Unforch for him they lived an ocean away from any family members that could help either of them out. LOL
That is come funny stuff
congrats on your award, you definitely deserve it !
As far as making napkins and having more laundry goes … well, yes technically it does make for another load. Before I bought my new washer/dryer I figured it was definitely not worth it, since I was probably wasting a lot of water which was worse than using 5698 napkins every week. But since getting the new washer and saving a BUNCH of money and water, it’s totally worth it. Plus I figure since I need to run bleach through the washer every week or so, I’d just kill two birds with one stone and bleach the napkins when I wash them, hence cleaning out my washer. Phew! That was a mouthful, no?
Plus? Even though the napkins are just a basic white they add something ‘fancy’ to our table, they’re softer than napkins and it feels good to do one more nice thing for Mother Nature.
microwave meatloaf! Bluck! These are some funny things.
Congrats on the award. I’m totally going to use #4.
Hysterical…..
I sooo love # 4. That’s my favorite. When Price asked me what I’m making for dinner I say “reservations”, lol.
Take good care and…….
Steady On
Reggie Girl
Hey, Thanks for the award!!
We have had a running joke since we got married that when the smoke detector goes off, dinner is ready. My 3 year old even comes running to eat when it goes off now.
3rd times the charm! moderationrecipes.blogspot.com
Dropping by from SITS to say Hi! Your funny! Have a great weekend!