Kitchen Catastrophe

The term "catastrophe" may be a bit strong, but it was a night when I'd have been better off not cooking. :-) Are you ready for this?

The evening began around 9:00 p.m. when I began to make my appetizers for my meetings today (everyone was supposed to bring one or two). I decided to do sweet & sour weenies (a favorite in my family) but take a healthy spin on it. So...I paid a little more to get turkey hotdogs and skinless, low cal sausage and began to cut it up. My plan was to put all of the ingredients in a Ziploc bag (hey Jane...can't imagine why I thought of you!). :-) After the meat was in the bag, I added the mustard & grape jelly. Then I had the bright idea to zip the bag & mix everything up so it was ready to go. All was going well until the bag opened, and over a cup of the mixture spilled out onto my carpeted kitchen floor. What a mess!

So...at 9:30 p.m. I'm in my kitchen spot cleaning the floor with my little shampooer. It took a bit but appeared to be working (although I'll have to do something else because now that it's dry you can see each spot where the jelly fell). After I was finished, I had to clean the machine and finish my original job. I transferred the meat into a different bag, sealed it tightly, and then put it in the fridge.

Then it was on to my second appetizer - a creamy taco dip. I had planned ahead and set the cream cheese out so it was soft. I was so proud of myself! :-) So...I cream the cheese until it's smooth, and the parsley flakes, and then prepared to add the taco seasoning. As I went to open it, I noticed that there was a lot of it at the top so I tapped it a few times to try & knock it down in the package (something I've done before & always saw my mom doing while growing up). However, things didn't go quite as planned. On the third "tap", the center of the package opened sending taco seasoning flying through the air. It went everywhere! And if you've used it before, you know that it's a bit moist...not necessarily dry. So...it was in my hair, all over my face, and clumped on my glasses. I could barely see out of my right lens. I'm telling you...it was EVERYWHERE!

At this point, it was after 10:00 p.m., and I was in no mood so I finished my dip and called it a night. I'll clean it up later!