Monday, Jul. 26, 2004
can't cook
Easy Mac is a god-send to those of us who cannot cook (so says the girl who just last week scorched spaghettio's). You just add water, and slap that bad boy straight into the microwave.
Which brings me to my current delimma: Tonight is my turn to cook.
In my family, what we tend to do is take turns with the cooking. Seeing as there's only three of us, this usually leaves me to do the cooking about twice a week. Normally, on my night to cook we order go to the cabinet in our kitchen that's FULL of restaraunt menu's. We sometimes order Chinese, or we get Cracker Barrel take-out (don't ask. My dad has an obsession with Cracker Barrel that I'm sure is unhealthy. It could have something to do with the fact that it's right across the street too), or we order pizza and what-not. Now, take-out can only get you so far before you (a) run out of cash, or (b)want to kill yourself if you ever have to have anything not wholly healthy again.
The senario that has hit me right now is both. So, I have to decide: do I risk my health, and the health of my family (not to mention sanity) and order something? Or do I risk our home, and cook? I've decided to try this whole "cooking" thing. It's truly sad, when at two in the afternoon you're debating whether or not you should get off your ass and try to cook dinner later. That's another odd thing about my family- we eat dinner fairly early, which happens to annoy me immensly. Why must we eat dinner at five o'clock on-the-dot and not a second later? *shrugs* Who knows.
But, tonight I am going to cook. I don't know what yet. It should be easy, in this day and age, for someone to be able to cook. Don't they have those meal-in-a-box things now? Where they have cans of meaty-soupy-stuff and biscuit-y stuff, and you throw it all together in a cassarole dish and slap it in the oven? That sounds like a good idea. Whoever came up with that should win the Nobel prize. Seriously, that's genius.
Still it's a sad, sad thing when at age 16, I have problems boiling water, no?
theparisian at 2:05 p.m.