I'm forever misreading recipes. It's a trait I think I inherited from my mom. With recipes, we usually have to have someone else make sure we're not skipping steps or forgetting important things like, oh, marinating? Or cooking time?

The other night I was going to make my very first pot roast. Unfortunately, having never cooked one before, I didn't realize that those suckers take like 3 hours to cook. So me at 9 pm making a late dinner, realizing that if I made my planned meal for my boyfriend who was coming home from CO for his birthday (first time I'd seen him in 3 weeks) realizing that I had NOTHING for dinner unless we wanted to eat at midnight.

Lovely boy he is, he drove to the store (after just having flown in a few hours ago!) and bought some pork chops which took MUCH less time to cook and the night was salvaged.

Very rarely had to completely throw out food, but one time I remember and The Boy still teases me about was when I wanted to make this nummy recipe of cuban pork with this topping of sauteed plantains and curry rice. The rice turned out great, but I guess I thought it said 1 cup of lime juice and not 1 T of limejuice. I think i read the line above it. Woops.

Let me tell you, plantains covered in almost nothing but lime juice is reeeally gross. And it ruined the meat too! But at least the rice was good!

K.