Guess what?? The baby's here! Sean was born on Sunday, Jan 10th, and we came home from the hospital yesterday. So far things are going great, he is a very laid-back baby who likes to eat and looooves to sleep. Not that I expect every night will go so smoothly.
The food in the hospital was actually pretty good. I am definitely going to miss just calling "room service" and having a tray delivered 45 minutes later. I especially missed it last night when I cooked my first post-baby dinner. The weekly menu is on hold, of course. Last night was just a simple dinner of frozen chicken breasts (Barber makes these stuffed ham and cheese ones that rock.) I cooked some rice and opened a can of corn.
Ok....I have cooked a lot of rice in my life. I know how to do it by heart, and it doesn't take a lot of thought. I know that the water doubles the amount of rice, so for every cup of rice you measure out, you need two cups of water. So that's what I measured. I poured the water into the pot, added a pat of butter. So far so good. Brought it to a boil, added the rice, turned it to low, gave it a stir. Then added the lid and set the timer. Twenty minutes later and it's gruel. Crunchy-looking, totally wet and absolutely not edible yet. Brian puts it back on the stove and I'm grumpin' because I'm hungry! Since the chicken's done, we start on that and the corn. Geee......delicious. Ten minutes later we have paste instead of rice, it's turning gooshy and sticking to the pan. So corn and chicken for dinner, and the garbage disposal again eats well.
Sometimes "the laws of physics cease to exist on my stove!" (If you can name the movie where that quote comes from....1000 Cool Kid points to you!)
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