lol.

One of them being Scrappy do.

I think I am turning into a Martha Stewart clone. And I go blog jumping ( you know, you click on a blog and someone has commented so you click on their blog and so on and so on.

I have come to realise Scrappy isn’t the only Martha Stewart clone.

**Trembles** There are oodles of them.

**Shivers with fear** Women who don’t get things out of a packet.

Wimmin who make things from scratch !!!

And then blog and share the recipes !!!!

And I have lived in fear in case this thing called cooking from scratch became catching.

I used to do it. But then I used to do alot of things, ya know ??

And right now, there are not enough hours in a day to be like Martha.

But something has happened. Something has come over me. And it scares me. It scares me alot.

And yesterday, I invited a family to dinner.

And I wrote a shopping list.

And I went shopping to the supermarket I have shopped at for almost 20 years. And I put up with the fact that they are undergoing HUGE renovations and it is all changed and keeps changing (which is why I have not been able to do the shopping and Mr Shamrock has been doing it for me) And I shopped for all the ingredients.

And I cooked.

from

scratch.

And in true Martha Stewart style, I will now share with you the recipes.

Pumpkin soup with croutons and buns.

Croutons:

Don’t have stale bread, Dear God, do people really have stale bread? I have children, I have geese !!

So go to supermarket.

Take off shelf in supermarket and put in trolley.

Take home and serve on soup.

Soup:

Look for Watties tins ….KIDDING.

Get out ye trusty Edmond’s Cookbook. You know it rocks.

Turn to page 65.

Read Instructions.

Do it.

Actually, that’s not quite how it went:

Here is what happened dans la cuisine……

Get pumpkin. Weigh pumpkin.

Look at recipe. Decide to double recipe.

Guess at amount of pumpkin needed. Cut pumpkin.

Peel skin off pumpkin with knife.

Nearly slice thumb. Muse about how much like onion a slice of thumb would look like.

Peel Onion.

Smile to oneself at the fact one is making soup from scratch.

Refer to recipe.

Boil the crap out of pumpkin and onion. Strain pumpkin and onion with said crap boiled out of them. Read recipe. It says puree.

Try mashing with potato masher. Abandon idea. Empty pumpkin and onion into blender. Drop some on counter. Pick it up under 3 seconds. Refer 3 second rule. Debate including in blender. Decide on including as you are going to boil the crap out of it again and any bacteria picked up will be killed.

Grab butter. Put desired amount of butter in pot and melt.

Look for flour. Realise said flour is still in bag and not in tupperware container as it should be. Remind oneself that ’should’ is a judgmental word. Give thanks that mice have not found bag of flour. Open flour. Pour flour into tupperware. Imagine finding mouse poop in flour. Gag to oneself.

Go to put flour bag in recycling. Find recycling messy. Start sorting recycling.

Realise butter is burning. Put flour into pot. Stir with wooden spoon.

Think of Bridget Jones making blue soup. Think of Colin Firth. Think of how Mr Shamrock looks like Colin Firth.

If one was drunk. Really. Really. Drunk.

Add water and milk. Re read recipe. Notice that it says 1 tbsp milk AND 1 cup of milk. Wonder what to do. Do both. Watch broth go runny. Wish I didn’t do that.

Add puree and mix. Mmmmmm yum yum.

Serve with buns. Not Hot hunk Thursday buns, the bread kind. (Though HHT buns would be tastier n’est pas?)

As an aside, Celtic Dingo has a limited diet. He usually gags on pumpkin (Along with most foods) But he tried two mouthfuls for me with no fuss. He did gag, but I was so proud of him for giving it a go. (And no he doesn’t gag because my cooking is crap)

We had a wonderful time with friends and even had enough leftover for tonight’s dinner. So it’s just a reheat night tonight.