Insane frustrations
I just had a really frustrating past 24 hours.
I have been having really shvach meals during the week lately, so at least for shabbos i like to have nice "fancy" meals. At least two courses, not counting desert. Generally we have a fish/salads course, a soup course, a main course with chicken and two sides, and then sometimes desert. I usually make challah, so at least if the food isnt filling enough, you can fill up on challah.
Well, this week we're running low on flour so i decided not to make challah. We have plenty of matzos still left from pesach (we waaaaaaay overbought and still have sealed packages) and were going to use that for lechem mishneh. Since we werent going to have challah, i decided to skip the salads course and just have soup and the main course. Menu plan for shabbos was chicken soup, and for the main course, kasha varnishkas (buckwheat groats with bowtie noodles), cauliflower, breaded chicken, and roasted veggies. For desert, i went on an overdrive and made fruit pie and peanutbutter cookies and was planning on making brownies as well.
Well, as my luck would have it, I worked hard on the chicken soup. Then I spent a good half hour ridding the buckwheat of a million little rocks that were in the package, snapping at Moo because he kept on interupting me and insisting on sitting where i was sitting when i was straining my eyes trying to take out the miniscule rocks when I was already overtired (but more about that later).
I finished checking the buckwheat, started cooking it in broth made out of our chicken soup for shabbos. I then gave Moo a bit of soup to keep him busy while i got ready for shabbos.
I tasted a bit of Moo's soup when I realized to my horror that THE SOUP FOR SHABBOS WAS SPOILED!! That means that my soup course was down the drain, the starch for our meal (the kasha) down the drain because it was cooked in spoiled broth, and it meant that i gave my 2 year old spoiled soup and he is likely to start throwing up from food poisoning now.
Oy.
It means that we don't have enough food for shabbos, what with no challah, no soup, no starch...
So here I am, a few hours before shabbos, trying to figure out what to make.
I run to the neighbors, borrow some baking pans because i am all out, borrow some ingredients so i have what to make my food with, and whip up a new first course instead of the soup. Mini hot dogs in sweet and sour sauce served over a bed of carmelized onion rice. And then I made oatmeal apple crumble (basically making up the recipe) to either serve with the main course instead of the kasha or as an additional desert.
Of course, this is after last night Moo had a fever and said his ear hurt and was driving me mad, moving from the couch to the bed to the couch to the bed and wanting me to stay and wanting me to go and stay and go, and getting up and going back to sleep and getting up and going back to sleep, etc...
And then this morning at 5 am, Mikey woke up and he wasnt going back to sleep from nursing because he was full, but wanted to suck to sleep. I went to the living room to get his pacifier, but Moo had been sleeping there (with my husband) and saw me and freaked out that he wanted me to stay. I put mikey back to sleep and moo was still freaking out that he wanted me so i realized i couldnt sleep with all that noise so went to him in the living room. He insisted that i stay in the room but as he and DH were already on the couch and i was falling off my feet from exhaustion, i pulled up a pillow, lay down on the very thin rug and fell asleep instantly, only to be woken up with bruised thighs from sleeping on the stone floor 30 minutes later when mikey woke up again.
But on the positive side- its been pouring like mad all day today- israel really needs the water and our garden too- so at least now we're not wasting money on watering it.
I have been having really shvach meals during the week lately, so at least for shabbos i like to have nice "fancy" meals. At least two courses, not counting desert. Generally we have a fish/salads course, a soup course, a main course with chicken and two sides, and then sometimes desert. I usually make challah, so at least if the food isnt filling enough, you can fill up on challah.
Well, this week we're running low on flour so i decided not to make challah. We have plenty of matzos still left from pesach (we waaaaaaay overbought and still have sealed packages) and were going to use that for lechem mishneh. Since we werent going to have challah, i decided to skip the salads course and just have soup and the main course. Menu plan for shabbos was chicken soup, and for the main course, kasha varnishkas (buckwheat groats with bowtie noodles), cauliflower, breaded chicken, and roasted veggies. For desert, i went on an overdrive and made fruit pie and peanutbutter cookies and was planning on making brownies as well.
Well, as my luck would have it, I worked hard on the chicken soup. Then I spent a good half hour ridding the buckwheat of a million little rocks that were in the package, snapping at Moo because he kept on interupting me and insisting on sitting where i was sitting when i was straining my eyes trying to take out the miniscule rocks when I was already overtired (but more about that later).
I finished checking the buckwheat, started cooking it in broth made out of our chicken soup for shabbos. I then gave Moo a bit of soup to keep him busy while i got ready for shabbos.
I tasted a bit of Moo's soup when I realized to my horror that THE SOUP FOR SHABBOS WAS SPOILED!! That means that my soup course was down the drain, the starch for our meal (the kasha) down the drain because it was cooked in spoiled broth, and it meant that i gave my 2 year old spoiled soup and he is likely to start throwing up from food poisoning now.
Oy.
It means that we don't have enough food for shabbos, what with no challah, no soup, no starch...
So here I am, a few hours before shabbos, trying to figure out what to make.
I run to the neighbors, borrow some baking pans because i am all out, borrow some ingredients so i have what to make my food with, and whip up a new first course instead of the soup. Mini hot dogs in sweet and sour sauce served over a bed of carmelized onion rice. And then I made oatmeal apple crumble (basically making up the recipe) to either serve with the main course instead of the kasha or as an additional desert.
Of course, this is after last night Moo had a fever and said his ear hurt and was driving me mad, moving from the couch to the bed to the couch to the bed and wanting me to stay and wanting me to go and stay and go, and getting up and going back to sleep and getting up and going back to sleep, etc...
And then this morning at 5 am, Mikey woke up and he wasnt going back to sleep from nursing because he was full, but wanted to suck to sleep. I went to the living room to get his pacifier, but Moo had been sleeping there (with my husband) and saw me and freaked out that he wanted me to stay. I put mikey back to sleep and moo was still freaking out that he wanted me so i realized i couldnt sleep with all that noise so went to him in the living room. He insisted that i stay in the room but as he and DH were already on the couch and i was falling off my feet from exhaustion, i pulled up a pillow, lay down on the very thin rug and fell asleep instantly, only to be woken up with bruised thighs from sleeping on the stone floor 30 minutes later when mikey woke up again.
But on the positive side- its been pouring like mad all day today- israel really needs the water and our garden too- so at least now we're not wasting money on watering it.