Not surprisingly I have come across another job that I am in no way cut out for... Chef. I can reheat, I can boil water, and okay I’m being a little bit too hard on myself here... For the most part, I can follow an easy recipe. For the most part. Well... Except for the time my friends Leah, Meredith, and I decided to have girls’ night and cook dinner. I somehow got stuck (ha, I probably volunteered) making the risotto and just assumed that I was supposed to put in the whole box of rice. Needless to say I couldn’t understand why there wasn’t enough liquid, so I just kept adding more water and my risotto end result was more like clumpy rice paste, which wouldn’t have been an issue if I was serving it to preschoolers who actually don’t mind eating paste.This is exactly why, as a person who lives alone, I choose to avoid cooking. Why make elaborate meals for myself when I could just as easily make something that doesn’t have any more complicated instructions besides remove plastic, microwave on high for 3-4 minutes? To this end, I was really intimidated when my team decided to do a Thanksgiving pot luck lunch at work. My old job had Thanksgiving pot lucks every year and I brought forks. What was I going to bring to this one from my vast cooking repertoire? Cheese and macaroni from the blue box? At first I decided to make guacamole, but that really needs to be made fresh right before serving, so I opted out. My boss suggested I could make crescent rolls. Everyone loves crescent rolls. Oh I can definitely do that! Pop them out of the tube and stick them in the oven, which I was excited to find out turned on this morning, since I’ve maybe used it 3 times before. My co-worker asked me if I had to take the sweaters out of it before I turned it on, right after another co-worker asked me if I made the rolls from scratch. Yes I made them from scratch. I spent hours upon hours coming up with the perfect recipe to get them to taste IDENTICAL to Pillsbury rolls... I am a culinary genius...
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Tee hee!
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