Thursday, March 25, 2010

A Habitual Mishap


I am a girl who just does not like vegetables. Period. I've tried to convince myself otherwise...it does not work. Vegetables make me gag.

I do, however, know that vegetables are important to your health. And since I am also trying to convince myself to care about my health, I've attempted to come up with clever ways to "disguise" my vegetables in the foods that I eat. For this reason, a good friend of mine gave me the Deceptively Delicious Cookbook, and I was shocked to see that you can put cooked, pureed carrots in fruit smoothies. I tried it, and guess what...

I couldn't even taste them!

Hallelujah.

So, I've taken to cooking and pureeing carrots in my free time.

There's only one problem with this new-found hobby: I am easily distracted and always forget that the carrots are on the stove steaming.

Twice now, I have come out of the bedroom (where I was doing something incredibly productive such as blogging) and thought, "What's that smell?" And then, with horror, remembered that over an hour before, I had put the carrots on the stove to steam with just a little bit of water.

Yeah, ruined the pan. Ruined the carrots too.

Damn.

Currently, Ryan and I have NO saucepans because I have ruined all of them through my carrot-steaming mishaps.

This is what happened last night:


I think I am going to ask for one of these for my birthday. It has a timer and turns off by itself.

Again I say, hallelujah!

11 comments:

  1. My overly sensitive smoke detector would have had a hay day! I seriously have to take it down every time I bake anything. Just opening the oven sets it off (and this is with out burning anything!) I'm sorry about your pans.. I'd say a timed steamer is a great idea.

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  2. hahahahahahaha!! Oh man. The "damn" part just...yes. hahahahahah! I love you Rachel. You are FUNNY....and I think your puree carrots is muy genius!

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  3. SO funny. Yeah, my smoke detector would have had a hey Day as well. Like it did the other day when I was cooking rice but had to go upstairs for a few minutes to comfort Max. Damn!

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  4. You and your superfluous damns. :) I'm not a veggie fan either. And hey, that steamer will be great for making baby food someday as well!

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  5. My smoke detector DOES have a hey day--but only after I open the apartment door to let out the stench. We have plastic insulation over our windows, so I can't open those...

    I finally just took the battery out of the smoke detector last night.

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  6. Wow, we have a lot in common. I have the same feeling toward vegtables. I try to get them through V8 at times...

    I fully approve of the use of the explitive! Perfect usage! :)

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  7. GOOD for you for trying to get the carrots in!
    SO worth the destroyed pot(s)! ;)

    i have never used a steamer. . . except for rice. . . hmmm. . . sounds nice!
    maybe it would be a good option. . . but then again. . . the smoke detector DOES need to be checked from time to time. . . just to see if it needs new batteries :)
    so you have some hefty options to weigh here dear!

    i just LOVE your posts. . . they never cease to make me smile!
    and good for you. . . you said Damn! ha! ;)

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  8. What does it say about me that I barely even registered the "damn" until several commenters mentioned it. You're going to have to swear much more vigorously to get my attention, apparently.

    Anyway, I burned veggies, pans and counters (taking the scorched pan off the stove) many many times before I bought a Pampered Chef steamer for my microwave. Cooks my veggies perfectly. And now I only burn rice. (Which is silly, because according to this thing here, I can also use it to cook rice. Why did that never occur to me?)

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  9. Sick nast, Rach. I can't believe you ruined all your pans. You asking for one of those for your birthday too?

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  10. Wow! That is pretty funny. We steam veggies over a pan too, but we always put a ton of water because we are too spacey to remember to take the pan off!

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  11. That is pretty funny. You need to talk to Alaska, Amy Reesor just moved and left a bunch of stuff(including pots/pans) at Alaska's house pretty sure she would be happy to pass them on to you:)

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