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Friday, November 30, 2012

Scorch

     It is dinner time and I dont know what to fix. That happens often in the life of a woman. I play computer games while I try to figure out something to eat. We are just about out of everything and will go to the feria tomorrow to stock up again.

     We have two fat little sausages and six skinny and short little ones. They arent the same. Oh, well, they will add variety to the dish because they are different sizes. We have six potatoes that are very shriveled and wrinkled, but they arent spoiled. I will peel two of them and cut them into slices. I will put them in a little later because they dont take very long to soften. Hmmm, onions always help and we have two small ends left over from other meals. Chop them into big pieces and add them to the frying pan where the sausages are already beginning to sizzle.  Better cover them so they wont burn, but I do want them to look a little browned.  Oh! There are four carrots in the fridge. I will peel two of them and cut them kind of bite-size thin and add them to the pan to steam while I cut four mushrooms into four pieces. Hey! This is beginning to look like a pretty good mix.  Where are those tomatoes? I put two of them in whole for about three minutes, then remove them, pull off the skin, cut the tomatoes into small chunks and dump them back into the pan.  I threw the skins away, but I dont think that is wasteful. Everything is steamy now because I poured in half a cup of water to keep the sausages from sticking to the pan.  Now...what kind of seasoning shall I use?  Ahhh, Deverles is just the thing, and I have a tiny piece of a bullion cube left. Well, now I need something green. Look in the cupboard: parsley is shouting at me, so I dump in a tablespoon's worth.  Now, this has to cook a few minutes, till the potatoes are soft, and because the table is already set, I will go play computer solitaire while I wait.  After two games, I check on the dinner.  All the moisture has boiled away and the bottom of the pan is black. I will just pour out the unburned stuff, and try to scrape what I can of that which is stuck.  Oh, no! There are some really good sausage pieces stuck. As I try to scraped them off while leaving the stuck part behind, the whole pieces come off. Well, it's done now so I'll just do that to the rest of the stuff.  Guess What!!!! Even though it looked pretty bad in the pan and questionable in the serving dish, it tasted really good.

      I dont know if I can be brave enough to reproduce Scorch again, but here is the recipe, anyway. 

2 comments:

Robert L. Karren said...

I would have that it would give you a good excuse to go out to eat.

Sally's Stories` said...

it is hard to get my companion to go anywhere because his knee hurts so badly. havent been out to eat for three weeks. will keep trying