Cooking Lesson

Being the modern and sophisticated woman that I am, I occasionally try my hand in the kitchen.  And by occasionally, I mean at least once or twice annually.  A couple of weeks into our marriage, I got all ambitious and set out to make a chicken casserole.  After mixing all the ingredients and getting it into the casserole dish, I noted that the instructions said to cover it and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.  So I put the pyrex plastic cover on top of it and let it bake.

Yeah.

G ran into a friend from high school a while back and we had him over for dinner tonight, which prompted this post.  Thought I would share a couple of things that I like to "cook," if you will.

The first is - get ready for it - a pasta salad that I like to make and take to work for lunch.  It consists of a ton of fresh veggies (use whatever you like), a few whole wheat noodles, and italian dressing.  If I'm feeling motivated, I slap on some rotisserie chicken and colby jack cheese.  Now we're talking.

In preparation for tonight's dinner, I went all out.  Fulfilling half of my annual quota.

Let's start with dessert - a nice fruit dish.  For those of you shaking your head, allow me to point out that I used all fresh fruits.  This requires extensive cleaning and chopping, people.

As if that wasn't exhausting enough, I made a yummy fruit dip that consists of one jar of marshmallow cream and one block of cream cheese.  I could eat this (and salsa) with everything.

Dinner consisted of pasta that my BFJ likes a lot, along w/a very complicated salad side dish and bread, as follows:

You may be asking yourself, what, pray tell, do I reward myself with after a grueling day in the kitchen?

Perhaps my next lesson will be on what I like to call, "cleaning."