Came home from work last week to see the following google search recorded on my toolbar: chili left out over night. Uh-oh, husband in trouble.
The night before I cooked a huge pot of chili, painstakingly made from shredded beef, with a jar of Trader Joe’s mole sauce mixed in for good measure. It was late, I was tired. My last words for the day were called down to Chuck, "Can you put the chili away?" My ears registered fridge door sounds in the kitchen. I slipped into peaceful sleep and dreams of future meals – chili with shredded cheese served over quinoa. Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmm.
Went to work early the next morning, all day fantasizing about the meal to come. I know you`re thinking. Get a grip, right. It`s just that our working schedules, and the lack of children at home, don`t encourage slow cooked meals, and too often we `punt`for dinner, our expression for grabbing whatever is available. Remember that old commercial when the guy pranced around singing `We`re having chicken tonight, chicken tonight, chicken tonight. Once, when we punted too many days in a row, while I was cooking dinner, Chuck bounded into the kitchen singing We`re having dinner tonight….
Back to the disaster at hand. Here`s the dilemma. The evidence being a pot of chili left on the stove for nine hours, still luke warn. Pursuing the search stated above, Chick found a split jury. The professionals all say to chuck the chili. Regular people say to boil the heck out of it and enjoy. Don`t you love the internet. There were an astonishing number of people out there who share this experience.
What would you do? Don`t worry I won`t invite you to dinner for chili in the near future. I’ll share our decision at the end of this post.
Lack of knitting content. Really, this isn’t just the same old scarf in a new pose. It’s grown at least six inches:
The outcome of our dietary dilemma; obviously we lived to tell the tale. We decided to live dangerously by boiling the fetid feast for an hour prior to indulging. A calculated risk, two days in advance of our anniversary getaway. All’s well that ends well.
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