Lately cooking had become.... drudgery. Still love to eat, though. Then I started browsing through epicurious.com, and I can usually find something there that I feel like eating. Or I should say, cooking then eating. There's a difference.
There are lots of things out there that I'd love to eat, but don't want to cook. Like anything that it takes more than one sheet of paper to print the instructions for, or that has a list of ingredients more than 2 or 3 inches long. And there are lots of ethnic foods that would require MORE spices. The cupboards full - no room for more. So anything with lemongrass - got to eat it at a restaurant.
So I've been surfing the easy section of epicurious, because the same old things just seem - old! Found some winners and some losers. The spicy pork stir fry the other night was AWFUL!! Usually I eat whatever I cook and try to convince the family to stop being such babies and just eat it! But this was so bad that, yes, I ate it. But the leftovers went down the garbage disposal.
The kitchen drain has been stinking for the last couple of days. I guess it didn't like the pork either. I've tried the baking soda-bleach-boiling water rountine several times. Then I tried adding coarse salt. Then a lemon. Nothing has helped. Now I have the stuff pulled out of the downstairs closet, and I'm contemplating pulling the drain plug and checking for a clog. But that really scares me. Don't want that yucky stuff oozing out all over the wood floor in there.
Like much of the rest of my life, I'm hoping that if I ignore it, the smell will go away. I guess that means we'll have pizza tonight. And eat it in the backyard on paper plates? Maybe. Welcome home from camp, Chelsea. Our kitchen smells as bad as the lake at camp. Sorry.
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