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Accepting and Moving on from Kitchen Mess-ups

July 23, 2015 By Jessica Braider Leave a Comment

Accepting and Moving on from Kitchen Mess-ups

This has been a week of cooking missteps and averted crises in my kitchen.

Last Friday night as I was assembling a huge batch of enchiladas for a large group of people, I ran out of tortillas. It was one of those moments of panic in the kitchen. How did I miscount the tortillas? How am I going to feed everyone? What am I going to do with all of this filling I have leftover? So I scrambled, raided the fridge, and decided to turn the pizza dough I had been planning on using for focaccia for dinner the next night into Mexican calzones to serve the kids who would be eating with us.

Last night I was putting away homemade chicken stock and realized that I didn’t have enough containers. So I googled storing stock in Ziploc bags, found it was a common thing, and decided to go for it. Then, during dinner, one of the bags leaked and not only did I lose 2+ cups of liquid gold, but two of my favorite cookbooks took one for the team and soaked up a huge amount of the mess….

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Filed Under: Cooking Basics, Family Dinner, Life Balance Tagged With: acceptance, cooking, disasters, flexibility, kitchen, mistakes, stress

Jessica Braider

Hi! I'm Jessica. I love delicious food that is simple and easy. As a busy mom, I am always on the lookout for ways to make life easier and tastier! Read More…

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