...And Then There Was The Time When Suddenly No One Could Cook.

I don't like to brag, but I consider Kendall and myself pretty good cooks. I have to admit that there have been times that meals have failed, but at least in my case, it's usually when I use a recipe, instead of blending things intuitively. Case in point--I once set a thanksgiving pumpkin pie with a candied pecan topping on fire because I left it too long under the broiler.

So last Sunday Kendall and I used a yummy sounding recipe titled "Sesame Chicken and Vegetable Stir-Fry". It used something I'd heard of before but never used: Chinese Five Spice, which sounded and smelled intriguing.
It was simple to put together, just frying up chicken and veggies and thickening up a sauce including the Five Spice.

I don't know where we went wrong, but it was the worst meal I've forced down in a long, long, time. Kendall felt the same, I know, because we discussed at length how we will never use that recipe or Chinese Five Spice again. Ever.

So to redeem the evening, we decided to make some cook and serve chocolate pudding. To amp up the nutrition value, however, we decided to add some whey protein powder we have that we usually use to make breakfast smoothies. And we thought, "Hey, the pudding starts out as powder, the whey protein is powder, lets mix them together before we start cooking, so there won't be any lumps."

Please take my advice. DO. NOT. COOK. PROTEIN. POWDER. WITH. YOUR. PUDDING. It did something weird. So weird, in fact, that even the kids wouldn't eat it.

So the bad karma of Pride came back and bit us big time. I think I've lost my taste for chocolate pudding for a while. :-P

I was a little worried, the next day, wondering if this was to be our new life...suddenly sucking at cooking. But it was great. It's hard to screw up alfredo sauce and tortellini and chocolate cake with whip cream frosting covered with M&M's. (It was Andrew's birthday meal. I did find the Tonka Bounce Back Racer, though, just in time. Yea!)