Päiväkirja - wafflewitz, 09 tammi 24

Either I remembered the recipe wrong (one of the struggles of a house fire, I've been without my cookbooks and recipe binder, I'm hoping I'll get most of them back soon), or there's something wrong with our new oven, or I need to read the manual, maybe I'm using the oven wrong. 

I had digitized a lot of my recipes, but not all of them. It's on my (very long) to-do list. 

We're both the meat and the veggies still tough or is it just the meat that was tough? If it was both I would say it's an oven issue if it was only the meat then I would say that it's probably your meat itself... do you have a meat thermometer or rather just a oven thermometer in your oven yet? I recommend always having an oven thermometer in your oven all ovens even new ones very wildly it's always good idea to have one in there just to know what you're dealing with. I can't imagine any meat and veggie dish not being tender after 8 hours at 250°... and that has nothing to do with the skill of the cook rather just science and that's not saying that you're not a wonderful cook just that as you said that's pretty basic cooking. Sorry to hear about your house fire hopefully you'll be able to get your cooking recipes and your binder back soon so that you're more comfortable in the kitchen. As for kitchen flops I don't know anyone that hasn't had them and won't continue to have them we're all human after All and being human we're going to make mistakes. I'm sorry that your dinner wasn't up to your standards I hope that your next dinner is more enjoyable. 😊 At least you actually got dinner to the table; I had a fatigue spell today passed out and then slept through the whole evening. The poor kiddos they had to make do for themselves granted they did a great job, but what a terrible mother I am, sandwiches 🥪 for dinner (ugh 😩)! 

It was meat and veggies. My husband and I microwaved our servings to cook them a little more. The kids ate it as is without complaint. I put the pan back in the oven for another half hour and it was a lot better. 

I do have a meat thermometer, checked the meat and it was to temp. I used to have an oven thermometer, need to replace it. Sorry you had a rough day, that's scary. 

Waffle, since it was both I would just get a oven thermometer and do a test of the 400 to check out how the oven's working it sounds like an oven issue at this point. As for my fatigue spells they annoy me more than they scare me it's just as if my body betrays me without warning ⚠️. I'm not sure if you drink but it's like being at the end of a bender when you need to pass out that overwhelming feeling or you just have to sleep except I'm not intoxicated in any way I just have to lay down and have to sleep overwhelming hard to ignore and last too long. Oftentimes even if I set an alarm before it happens I sleep through it even when I'm exhausted I don't sleep through an alarm it's just really strange I'm on narcolepsy medicine which is supposed to prevent the issue I've talked to the doctor in his only response as well I can prescribe you more but I'm already on this drug that's a controlled substance I really don't want to take another 100 mg of a controlled substance. But I'm pretty sure a lot of it's just that I've been doing too much lately I did work nearly 10 hours yesterday I worked very very hard it was both truck day and my coworker head very much not done his job for the last 3 Days to a week prior and had walked out the day before I did my best to prepare the damage that he had done but there's only so much one person can do in a day to prepare honestly almost two weeks worth of work and then I also went home and did my best the day before to get as much done cleaning wise as I could because it's our new trash day. Our city decided to change trash companies because our last trash company was so bad that they completely trashed that contract and got a new trash company for Christmas. I'm just not used to not being able to do what I want to do there's a concept called "spoons"i f you want to look it up and I'm just not used to consuming my "spoons" if you will going bad for overusing them for days in advance even that used to my energy being so finite back in the day I can force my body to do what I wanted to do it was only my mental fortitude that mattered these days my body portrays me and I don't like it.