Tuesday, June 15, 2010

I Made Lunch...

Well, after the dentist and going through emails both work and personal, flicking through the TV dial, making the bed and pacing like a caged Tiger, Doug finally wanted lunch.

Hmmmm, lunch, with a mouth full of stitches...... pancakes, we settled on pancakes.

When you stay in one of these apartment/hotel rooms they supply the basics - a couple of pots, a pan or two, 3 forks, 4 spoons, 4 knives. One bread knife, one long knife that really can't cut butter, a can opener, spatula, salad set. Some plates and cups and that's it. Seriously. No measuring cups or spoons, no corkscrew (okay, I am now officially a fan of boxed wine), no whisks, no spice rack. IWANTMYKITCHEN. sorry about that.

We have boxed pancake mix, ugh.... boxed pancake mix.... I'm using boxed pancake mix. horror of horrors.... b o x e d p a n c a k e m i x....

No measuring implements -- wing it. I can only thank God that most of my cooking is done sans measuring - I've developed a pretty good eye.

Out came the "half butter" --- don't ask, I don't know - it's not butter and it's not margarine and it doesn't ask like lard or anything else I've ever dealt with. First batch of pancakes in the trash... speaking of that --- IWANTMYDOG -- yes, Phoebe would have happily munched on those pancakes.

Batch two - much better -- THEREISNOCOUNTERSPACE -- gave Doug his pancakes and started some more -- no griddle, small pan means small pancakes. Used "real butter" for the pan, much better. Used the "half butter" on the pancakes.

Doug came "in" the kitchen for more - holy cow - now there is no room at all to move, then he started laughing --- hahaha - yeah, just like Ralph and Alice Cramden...hahaha, great - it's much funnier on TV....

Can't wait to see what we're going to do about dinner, but dinnertime will take YEARS to get here.

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