School Lunch

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So, I am really bad at meal planning and even worse at remembering to bring my lunch to school. Today I ate school lunch. I finally did it. I have always secretly kind of wanted to (just to say I've done it. You know?) This picture isn't my lunch. I didn't bring my camera to lunch. I had turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, chocolate milk :), cauliflower, broccoli, and part of the roll. The roll wasn't my favorite, but overall the school lunch wasn't as bad as it's reputation. It was also only $2.75. Not bad.

The Day My Worst Fear Came True...

I have a love and absolute fear of pressure cookers. This has been true from the time I was little.
I love pressure cookers because that meant mom was most likely making beef stroganoff, which she has perfected.
I have a fear of them because they are TERRIFYING. Every time I heard that steam releasing from that do-hickey on top, I knew it was going to explode.
If mom was using the pressure cooker, I just steared clear of the kitchen and would wait until whatever delicious masterpiece my mother was cooking was ready for consumption.
Well for Christmas 2009, Mom gave David and I a pressure cooker. AH!
I couldn't tell everyone about my fear, that would be rude. I graciously accepted and made a comment about beef stroganoff.
David's favorite food also happens to be beef stroganoff. He has a paper from like 3rd grade to prove that he didn't just say that because I said that when we were dating. Anyway, his mom makes it a little different, although still tasty. She doesn't use a pressure cooker, so we kind of adopted her way of cooking the meat and combined the two recipes to deliciousness.
One day this past year I decided to be brave and try out the pressure cooker. Mom did it all the time and never had problems. I should be fine, right?
That's what I thought...
I got the meat combination going in the pressure cooker, so far so good. I was only making a big deal out of a silly fear.
Just when I thought I was safe, I started prepping other parts of the meal.
Of course the seal breaks on the pressure cooker, a river a steam lifts the pot off of the stove to eye level and then crashes onto the floor right beside me.
I burst into tears.

Here is the broken seal. I thought we had taken a picture of the pressure cooker on the floor, but I was a little distraught and a camera probably wasn't my first thought.

So finally when I got up the courage to crush this fear, it laughed me in the face.
We finished making dinner without a pressure cooker and the beef stroganoff turned out great!

See!
I may never use a pressure cooker again... Although they are a pretty cool concept if you think about it.