it’s the roast leg of lamb FROM HELL.
suddenly there’s only a week before xmas, and we’re trying not to think of the impending doom that is the “prepare for the trip and pack and clean the house and get all the presents WHILE working and doing all of your usual stuff that leaves you dead tired AND DON’T FORGET THERE’S A TINY LITTLE POOPY HUNGRY PERSON TOO”.
so we decide that one of the things we’ll do to make our week simpler is to maybe make a nice big easy meal, like a simple leg of lamb roast at the beginning of the week, and then just eat through it with side dishes through the week, finishing it up about when we drive down to lost angels for the holidays.
“simpler.”
heh.
first we didn’t manage to get any of the ingredients on sunday because some tiny little poopy hungry person was very fussy. then monday was tiny little poopy hungry person + trying to go and last-minute mail presents.
tuesday hmc and snapper trek to the berkeley bowl and get all the ingredients. the idea is that they’ll get the stuff, and i’ll prep it and it’ll cook the next day, since we’re opting for the naked chef’s yummy five-hour slow roast. which would have worked out fine if the berkeley bowl hadn’t FORGOTTEN TO GIVE US THE LAMB.
i trek back out the berkeley bowl to get the bag of groceries they forgot to give us (and they couldn’t have tracked hmc down in the parking lot? really? i find that people with tiny little poopy hungry persons are 1. not hard to spot and 2. don’t move that quickly in the first place). so by the time i get around to prepping it after dinner, it’s already 10:30pm.
i prep all the ingredients, and start to do the pre-cooking: browning the leg, cooking the bacon (!!! hell yeah. that’s right, i said bacon. with my leg of lamb roast.) and the onions. and at this point i finally realize: i don’t own a proper roasting pan. this whole time i’ve been making roasts in smaller pans, and wondering why i keep not being able to fit everything in the pot. IT’S BECAUSE I DON’T HAVE A BIG ENOUGH POT, MORON. ok, great, i finally figured it out, but now i’m stuck because i can’t get a roasting pot at 11:30pm.
hmc says that instead of trying some crappy pot from slaveway, she’ll go to BBB the next day and just get a quality pot and finish the recipe.
remember the simple part?
hmc goes to BBB today (actual sequence being get tiny little poopy hungry person dressed and ready to go, notice that tiny little poopy hungry person is upset more than normal, notice that tiny little poopy hungry person is WET IN HER CARSEAT BECAUSE GODDAMNNED gDIAPERS ARE FROM HELL (but will save the earth), remove tiny little poopy hungry person and change her and all of her clothes, and then go to BBB) and buys a roasting pot. when she finally gets home and tries to finish the easy recipe, she takes the roasting pot out of the box and notices that not only is it NOT NEW but it is CLEARLY USED AND DIRTY and even has SPOTS WHERE THE NON-STICK COATING IS COMING OFF SPEWING CARCINOGENS at you and any tiny little poopy hungry people nearby.
this now necessitates me taking said “defective” pot back to BBB for a different one.
which means we’re not cooking it until tomorrow.
see how easy this was?
meanwhile, we’re going to have a huge ass roast leg of lamb FROM HELL. tomorrow. you (yes yetra, i’m talking about you.) should come over and eat some. because we’ve got a lot of HELL to eat.
Posted at December 20, 2007 12:10 AM| TrackBack