Learning to Adapt

One thing to remember when setting yourself any task, is that life sometimes gets in the way of the best of plans. Dishes, laundry, shopping still need to be done. Dinners need to be cooked and all the other time-consuming things that make up daily life put plans on the back burner. But I'm a stubborn person and continue to plug away, although I have found I sometimes need to adapt.

Last Saturday I had a Christmas party to go to. I was assigned a vegetable dish, and also wanted to make a gluten free dessert so I could be guaranteed something sweet to eat.

So there I was all ready to pour my cheesecake batter into cupcake liners when I discovered that I didn't have any cupcake liners. So I did what wives all over do-sent my husband out to fetch some. After awhile he returned with some. Decorated with soccer balls and footballs and baseball bats. For an adult Christmas party. But I was a sport and put the cheesecakes into the oven and set to work on the vegetables.

I downloaded a vegetable recipe and was busy cooking it when I opened an unexpired (honestly, I checked) and unopened jar of pickled jalapenos and found them coated with a strange looking black oily substance-not like the fuzzy green stuff I usually associate with bacteria laden food, but not wanting to poison a whole group of friends, I couldn't use it. There was no time to send the husband out again, so I sprinkled some red pepper flakes for the missing heat and continued cooking.

And you know what, both dishes turned out wonderfully and we had a great time at the party.

However, there's still the question of what to do with the jar of jalapenos in my fridge. Dare I serve it to family?