You can make a list. You can check it twice. But if you forget to take it with you to the store.....you might forget something you need.
Which is kind of what happened to me this morning. We're celebrating Boss's Day tomorrow at work and all the staff support are making something for it.
I'm bringing Shrimp Pasta Salad. I pulled out the recipe and made a list of all the ingredients. Then I went into my kitchen to see what I was out of and what I had and checked off the items I needed (basically I had the salt and the chili sauce - which I only ever use for this recipe but not much is needed so I still have some - and needed everything else).
You add to that that we have a cake in the freezer from the retirement reception (see previous post) and needed it to thaw by 10:30 tomorrow morning. We considered taking it out Friday afternoon but our cleaning crew is supposed to clean out our refrigerators every Friday and they will if it's filled with items they can take home to their families, otherwise they leave it alone. And we didn't want them to take our cake. So I decided to go in before I went to the grocery store this morning and take the cake out of the freezer.
It wasn't until after I left work and was headed for the grocery store that I realized I'd forgotten my list! It was pouring down rain and I decided to wing it and hope I remembered everything I needed, instead of going by my house and getting the list.
So there I was, going down every aisle, looking at everything they had, hoping all the ingredients would come back to me. I spent more time in the grocery store than I think I ever have in my life!
I checked out, confident that I (hopefully) remembered everything and as I was loading the bags into my trunk I remembered the last time I made this recipe. I'd made it for my Bunco group and one person wouldn't touch it because it had white ingredients in it. Seriously, she won't eat anything white - even if it's just an ingredient in a dish.
Anyway, I'm glad I remembered that story because I'd forgotten the mayonnaise! I closed my trunk and went right back into the store and bought a jar of mayonnaise, hoping THAT was the only ingredient I had forgotten on the first round and came home.
I REMEMBERED EVERYTHING! Yay!
Now I just have to wait for the shrimp to thaw (in the refrigerator) and I'm good to go. :o)
What a relief!
3 comments:
Hey, I just read that Rachel Gibson book too. We seem to share similar tastes in authors. :)
Anyway, I hate forgetting my lists (and do it often). My memory isn't as good as yours, and invariably I forget something.
Good luck with your recipe!
I'm telling you, I just got lucky on remembering everything. If I hadn't made out the list shortly before I left, I'm sure I would have forgotten things.
In praise of Lucy (and I apologize that my comment has nothing to do with your pasta salad, which I'm sure was fabulous):
I recently purchased my first Julia Quinn book, and I made my choice of which one based on your praise for It's in his Kiss. I'm about a hundred pages into it, and I've already almost cried. That is a sign of a good book. YAY! Thank you, thank you, thank you. :) Believe me, I'd rather be home readin the rest of it and ordering her entire backlist of Amazon. (I even almost got sick last night so I could justify the day off work... subconscious, you think?)
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