Has anyone ever read the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace? There are few series out there that follow a character on the journey from childhood to adulthood and are so timeless in the portrayal of emotions and life that even 100 years later, they still seem relevant. Obviously, I think Laura Ingalls Wilder is one of the best, but Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy is just as lovable and timeless. And the newly released versions are truly lovely, with forwards from Meg Cabot, Laura Lippman, and Meg Cabot.
I was reminded of a part of Betsy's Wedding last night, where she is trying to learn to cook for her new husband and it always seems to turn out wrong, particularly a meat pie.
"Betsy approached the oven dubiously. The accident had been a little more than 'nothing much.' She had thought she remembered just how Anna made meat pie--cutting leftover meat into chunks, and dropping it into gravy along with potatoes and onions and carrots, spreading biscuit dough on top. But something had gone wrong. The dough had overflowed and stuck to the floor of the oven, and burned. She had scraped it off, and scraped and scraped, but it kept on overflowing and sticking and burning and she had run frantically to fling up all the windows and run back to scrape some m ore. Eventually she had decided that the oven wasn't hot enough and had turned it up as high as it would go. Then the top of the depleted crust had burned."
This is how my dinner turned out last night. Kind of. Last night, we tried to make chicken and dumplings. What we ended up with was chicken and vegetables covered in dough because the biscuits didn't form and instead just sat on top in a floury mess. It was still good, but not exactly what we were going for. It's really at the point now where it's more humorous than maddening. Particularly because it's not that it's not edible, but just not quite right.
On that note, here's our second two-week meal plan.
Chili
Pizza
Waffles
Chicken nuggets
Chicken and dumplings
Pasta Presto [pasta with peppers, feta cheese, and sun-dried tomato and basil chicken sausage, yum.]
Chicken Curry
We also have beef enchiladas, mac and cheese, soup, and porkchops. Yum.
I was reminded of a part of Betsy's Wedding last night, where she is trying to learn to cook for her new husband and it always seems to turn out wrong, particularly a meat pie.
"Betsy approached the oven dubiously. The accident had been a little more than 'nothing much.' She had thought she remembered just how Anna made meat pie--cutting leftover meat into chunks, and dropping it into gravy along with potatoes and onions and carrots, spreading biscuit dough on top. But something had gone wrong. The dough had overflowed and stuck to the floor of the oven, and burned. She had scraped it off, and scraped and scraped, but it kept on overflowing and sticking and burning and she had run frantically to fling up all the windows and run back to scrape some m ore. Eventually she had decided that the oven wasn't hot enough and had turned it up as high as it would go. Then the top of the depleted crust had burned."
This is how my dinner turned out last night. Kind of. Last night, we tried to make chicken and dumplings. What we ended up with was chicken and vegetables covered in dough because the biscuits didn't form and instead just sat on top in a floury mess. It was still good, but not exactly what we were going for. It's really at the point now where it's more humorous than maddening. Particularly because it's not that it's not edible, but just not quite right.
On that note, here's our second two-week meal plan.
Chili
Pizza
Waffles
Chicken nuggets
Chicken and dumplings
Pasta Presto [pasta with peppers, feta cheese, and sun-dried tomato and basil chicken sausage, yum.]
Chicken Curry
We also have beef enchiladas, mac and cheese, soup, and porkchops. Yum.
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