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Lance and I have an interesting relationship when it comes to cooking.
Two things you should know about Lance: He has an incredible sense of smell and is very concerned with the smell of our home. Also he is a tweaker, a fiddler, a stirrer.
Here is the typical 5:45pm interchange interchange at our home:
Lance enters the back door
The kids hear the door open and race into the kitchen yelling, "PAPA PAPA PAPA" and just all out screaming.
Lance says, "HEY who is that in there" and while removing his coat promises to chase them into the living room and wrestle them.
The kids run away in delight.
Lance smells the kitchen, "sniff, sniff" and asks/tells, "Is something burning? Smells like something's burning"
Aimee responds with a slightly disgruntled sigh, "I don't think that's a good first comment about supper. It's not burning, there's just something on the element."
Lance adds, "Well you do burn things quite often"
Aimee doesn't think she burns things that often but thinks oh well and goes back to cooking.
Lance stops and stirs whatever is on the stove before wrestling the kids down in the living room.
Eventually we all sit down for supper and it is usually good, not usually burnt, atleast not badly.
Here are some specifics from two nights ago.
Lance peers into the pots, says, "That looks weird, what is it".
Aimee feels okay about the fact that he thinks it looks weird, because it does, and infact she is not at all sure that the meal will taste good and has been contemplating how to get across the idea, "Just eat it, it is healthy and we can't waste it". Take a look for yourself:
And you're wondering what it is too...
Aimee informs Lance, "It's yellow curry with lentils and wild rice"
Lance laughingly responds, "Boy am I glad it's me who lives here"
Both Aimee and Lance think of many of their Albertan friends who may have never eaten any of the above mentioned items and who would be appalled to arrive home from work to find their wife had cooked up such a foreign concoction.
Smiling, Lance follows his last phrase up with, "Where am I, Princeton?" referring to my sister and Andy and their wild but delicious healthy meals.
Lance plays with the waiting kids.
Aimee adds the lentils to the curry and tastes the goulash - you've got to be kidding, it's delicious! - she thinks.
She proudly serves up the meal, topping it with yogurt (our version of sour cream)
Lance LOVED it.
Aimee learns that Lance really likes wild rice. Good thing too, since she cooked like four times the amount they needed and now has multiple portions frozen.
There you have it, a little window into our life.
better go, they're hitting each other.
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Wow, it would be Mark's wildest dream to come home to something cooking on the stove... Lance is a lucky guy.
And very interesting about the yogurt thing. I'd kind of like to try it.
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That is such a funny story Aimee! I was laughing aloud for most of it and told Jeff to read it too!!! I hope you don't mind.
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It would be MY wildest dream to come home to something cooking :). Sean eats pretty much whatever I cook up, and that includes lots of strange concoctions :). I'd come over for curry and wild rice with lentils any day.
With me being pregnant, I'M the one with a super sensitive nose....so Sean comes home, more often than not to..."honey, can you go out to the garage even though it's 25 below and quickly cook up this meat/chicken, on the george foreman?"
Happy concocting.
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oops.... i wrote the comment as Sean and then forgot to sign it. Sorry :)
Anno
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"who would be appalled to arrive home from work to find their wife had cooked up such a foreign concoction."
That would be the person I married and all the children we've made would agree. But I'm working on it. Are people programmed to hate spinach and whole wheat bread? I just don't get it!
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haha! i totally was nodding along with your comment about lance thinking something was burning. i've ALWAYS got bits of food smoking away on the elements and josh is always super concerned. then he asks "dont you ever clean those?" to which i reply "who needs to clean the food off of them, when it burns of so nicely?"
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haha! Happy ending to a fun storry. It does sound delicious!
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aimee that meal sounds just wonderful and not at all funny. we eat like that all the time... but we do live in mongolia. we often laugh at what I'm cooking up thinking that there are many friends in Alberta who probably haven't eaten this stuff before. curry? delicious!! wild rice... we love it in chicken soup. and a little goes a long way. this week i found a big chunk of tofu at the market and will be experimenting with that this week. enjoy cooking!
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Hi Aimee,
On the crock pot front ... I actually have two large crock pots & one cooks much faster than the other. Crock pots are a very inexact science but you get the hang of it after a while ... like with your oven ... some cook a little high, some a little low. Besides cooking, I use mine for roasting a lot ... wrap garlic in foil & throw it in for 2 hours ... voila roasted garlic to add to soup or hummous or whatever. I also roast squash & root vegetables and even turkeys & chickens. I find a very good basic cookbooks are the ones by Donna Pye.
http://www.amazon.ca/300-Slow-Cooker-Favorites-Donna-Marie/dp/0778801675/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1201486393&sr=8-1
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Aimee, no fair to tease with a curry recipe! You need to post it, it sounds so good and just the type of thing I cook!
Tara
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this was my favourite story so far.
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posted by Aimee at 
Wow, it would be Mark's wildest dream to come home to something cooking on the stove... Lance is a lucky guy.
And very interesting about the yogurt thing. I'd kind of like to try it.