From the oven straight to the trash

Sometimes it is interesting to analyze the chronicle of a defeat because, as the wise people say, we can learn from any mistakes. So let's dig deeper into one of our kitchen failures!

Trash days

The problems in the kitchen generally start early, in the morning. When you open yours eyes and the new day seems to be more difficult than the normal, together with a slight feeling that makes you understand that the brain does not focus: ok you are getting into a trash day.

If you were a lucky (wo)man with a cook, you’d remain in bed, you would close yours eyes again and you would sleep for more two or three hours. But of course there isn't any cook in your kitchen — except you; so you take a deep breath and smile to the new day, knowing that it could be tricky.

If the brain does not focus, all your movements are slower and the whole organization of the kitchen falls head over heels. But your weekly menu today provides a complicated new dish with 15 ingredients and you, as a General of Army Corps, don’t want to change the planning.

Well, this is the first mistake: in the trash days you cannot measure yourself in difficult trials: everything has to become simpler. In that case the dish with 15 ingredients might become an easier tuna & peas.

The disaster

Continuing on the disaster road, you realized that you haven’t the 15 ingredients for cooking the new recipe and your unfocused brain says: oh it doesn’t matter! That's the second mistake: if you cook a new recipe you cannot change any ingredients. Only the second time you can do that, because you already know its flavor and you can modify it as your taste.

Last but not least: the time; during the trash days it flies. No, it runs. No, it is stolen by the mischievous elves of the house. So at lunch you're late, with tuna & peas uncooked, with a dish tasteless because of those two missing ingredients, with your hungry family a bit nervous and nothing else to eat but a can of tuna without peas.

How do we learn from our mistakes?

• During a trash day we must understand it quickly and reprogram our life in the kitchen;
• the key word shall be: simplicity;
• in the trash days the mischievous elf of the house it’s me! :-)