Cooking Questions

Rather than stay in bed

pretending to get back to sleep,

I decided to get up and tackle

the blog post that's stewing 

in my brain.  Sheesh.

Alright already.

Here it is for what it's worth.

The photo above was taken

  September 11th this year when 

Rick and I were in Ferndale, CA.

I had purposely left my 'big girl' camera

in the car so that I could 

enjoy visiting the shops and be

present in the moment 

while spending time with Rick.

Then that tabletop oven

caught my eye and I mightily 

wished I had my camera with me.

Because look how cute it is up 

there on it's own cabinet.

The cabinet was part of the cooker.

I've never seen one built like that

before and at first I didn't even 

know it was a cooker.  I kind of 

thought it was some type of 

old fashioned refrigerator.

Anyway I thought it was way cool 

and took the photo with my phone,

... and how weird is that?

I mean think about it.

Back in my younger days

watching Star Trek on

TV the future was really

far out there.

Those communicators they had...

ahem... look at our phones now.

OK then,

on to what actually was keeping

me awake.

Yesterday 

was crazy busy at Costco. 

 The parking lot was packed,

the store was full of customers,

and the lines to check out were 

awesomely long.

Way to go shoppers ~

helping out our economy

and gathering the ingredients

for our Thanksgiving feasts.

I've never seen so many pumpkin 

pies stacked up and ready to go.

 I'm baking ours from scratch

thank you very much.

While heading around the 

refrigerated section I'm stopped

by a lady with a question

about which product she needed

for her recipe.

  Half and half or whipping cream.

She also wanted to know if whipping

cream was heavy cream which was 

what she was looking for.

OK...

On to Walmart.

I'm checking out in the 

twenty items or less checkout stand.

I counted and I had eighteen items.

I'm such a rule follower...

After putting my stuff on the 

counter, a lady behind me

with just two items started

a conversation.  

The two items were the forgotten

ingredients she needed for her 

recipe.

She asked if I could believe that

the tiny bottle of McCormick 

pumpkin pie spice costs $4.

Unbelievable.  It's not even

the regular sized bottle of spice.

We're talking the little short ones.

Then, with that 

conversation in mind...

While at Trader Joe's

their spices caught my eye

and out of curiosity I picked

up their full sized bottle of 

pumpkin pie spice for $1.99. 

  I'm thinking un huh,

maybe I need to replace my 

pumpkin pie spice...

when  a customer decided

to ask me about crystallized

ginger which was on the 

other side of the isle.

So I'm wondering

why do people assume I

know answers to their cooking 

questions...

...and I ask Rick when

he gets home,

"Do I look like someone 

who knows cooking?"

Now...

insert that 'deer in the headlights'

look on his face because it's 

a question 

I probably shouldn't have asked.

OK then,

never mind...

what ever...

 It's now almost time

for the coffee pot 

to turn itself on at 

5:15 AM and

it's going to be a great day.

Happy Thanksgiving.