Last night's kitchen fail

Email originally sent on Monday, November 10, 2025

Ahoy!

Do y’all know how human I am?

I know that I put on this massively good front of being intelligent and put together. (Cough, Cough.)

But, I have to tell you that the reason this email is being sent out so late on Monday night is because everything got derailed yesterday. I partly took a bit of a break. Doom scrolled and talked to a whole bunch of people on the phone - most of whom called me.

I had plans for last night. I had even more people on this list to call - here’s looking at you Kathy. I also wanted to sit with the Isabelle sessions and take a deeper look at them.

Around six, I threw 3 or 4 quartered yellow (sweet) onions in the instant pot with a packet of prepeeled and packaged garlic cloves with some avocado oil. I sautèd that up until the onions were translucent and added two celery hearts and a small bag of organic carrots chopped in one to two inch chunks.

I waited a moment, just to let that soften. Then I added the pre-chunked butternut squash I found in Wegmans. I also added a container of chopped sweet potatoes I had in the freezer. I added basil and 5 bay leaves to it. Then I poured in the last of my low salt chicken broth and added a cup of water to it, just to be sure.

I put the lid on and let it fire up with a plan to cook for 7 minutes.

The 7 minutes ended. I vented it and then when ready took off the lid. It smelled so so good.

I pulled out my immersion blender and got to work making it into a perfectly perfect tomato-less “tomato” sauce for pasta - only my plan was to put in ground chicken and put it over rice.

I whirred the happy little immersion blender around until I found something “challenging” and rather hard inside the goopy mess. I figured I could just immersion blender the problem right out - pesky little carrot.

Only it wasn’t a pesky little carrot or sweet potato.

I went fishing around for the problem after I had bumped into it a couple of times. I pulled up a grey hard thing that had a bent shape to it. And it wasn’t until I pulled out of my lovely sauce that I realized it was a piece of plastic that grips the outside of the immersion blender at the bottom to protect teflon pots from it’s metal edges. Only, it came off in my lovely sauce and I butchered the hell out of it.

I then did what we all would do - see if we could salvage the sauce. I started to strain the sauce in a metal strainer that it didn’t actually go through only to realize the plastic looked a lot like the dried basil I put in as a seasoning and there was plastic throughout the sauce.

All of it needed to go.

I pulled out a bunch of gallon storage bags, ladled the plastic sauce into the plastic bags and threw the whole lot away.

But first I called my mom’s best friend and she agreed I had to pitch it. Then she shared a kitchen fail or two. Then Michelle called and she agreed I needed to pitch it and then told me about a night she broke a pyrex dish in her kitchen. She realized glass got into her left overs and she tried to convince herself she could keep the left overs even with the glass in it. For the record, she did not. She knew she had to let it go, but like me, she had to take a moment to accept the reality we don’t want to see.

We all do it.

We all have fails in the kitchen. This morning, Isabelle told me a story that involved not just destroying a meal, but also destroying a plastic strainer and a pan in the process as well.

The point I really want you to hear is ....well, we all mess up.

Want to know how much my Team was trying to talk to me and I just wasn’t listening in that moment?

Shortly after I started and put the blender in to start whipping it into a soupy concoction, I whirred the blender around a little. I thought about that plastic edger that you can take off. I pulled the immersion blender out of the goo and looked at it. The plastic thing wasn’t on it and I thought, “Oh, I’m so smart that I took it off and left it in the cabinet.”

My team was trying to tell me that I had a problem with the plastic edger. Only, nope. I missed the memo and the whole sauce was plastic-fide.

Tonight, I went to the grocery after being at the hospital today and bought all of the ingredients, again, and made up another batch. Half will go in the freezer. The other half will go into the fridge for dinners for the rest of the week.

At this point, I am beyond tired and I’m going to bed. In fact, I’m falling asleep as I re-read this email to proof it. If there are any grammar issues, blame my droopy eyelids. Tomorrow I have a giant day and my body really needs to get good sleep. May your tonights be full of peace and contentment (unlike my sauce moment for me - god that wasn’t peaceful nor content!), but tonight remaking it went much much better. May all of your tomorrows be sunny and full of the knowledge that you are living your purpose.

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Big Love xxx,