29.12.09

Christmas Memory #4? Tchickoffee

So remember that toffee I made?  Well, I had it on the table on the back porch, because it's cold outside, and out there I have room to store the pans and pans of it that I made.  Sam was worried it would get wrecked or snowed on or something, so I brought it all in (I made LOTS) and put it in the only place that I had room for it.

The oven.

You know where this is going.

Turns out, that even if you melt it a little - like say, long enough to preheat your oven to 375ºF - you can cool it (on the back porch where you should have left in the first place, like you do every year) and it turns into toffee again!   WAHOO! Except, if you are not regular about cleaning your oven (which I am so not)  it will also taste like the last thing/s you baked in there.

Which, for me, was chicken and rice. 

Mmmm, a two course meal in one bite. 
Reminds me of...


 [Love this drawing by El Lohse.  Her artwork can be purchased at her Etsy Shop: Elloh]



Ugh.  Sorry neighbors and friends.  No Christmas or New Year's toffee this year...lame, lame LAME!!!!!!!!!!!  I still have cards that say "Merry Christmas" on them.  You'll be getting them, eventually.  I'm not storing those in the oven.



 

I LOATHE throwing away food...all those precious ingredients.  All that time...wasted because of absentmindedness.  Do I just subconsciously love doing everything in my life twice?  Seriously.

When will I learn?
WHEN!

7 comments:

cristie said...

dang, dang, dang...i love you. xox

cristie said...

did you happen to see Catherine's chicken pot pies? xox

Tatum Wheeler said...

I just read all your recent posts and they made me so happy! I really do want to be you because you are Perfect but Real at the same time! Mostly Perfect. I may be like 8 years younger than you but can we hang out:) Love you beautiful girl

The Dipo's said...

BAHAHAHAHAHA! hehehehe.... love it. I seriouslly can seeyour face right now, biting into a piece of your chicken and rice toffee... LOL! Oh Melissa..... how you make me smile.

The Dipo's said...

By the way, Nathan just read this and said "AH! YUM!" (seriouslly)

Cath said...

Oh! I feel your pain Melissa! Kind of reminds me of this pan I have that I mulled spices in for days. Now everything I cook in it tastes of old cinnamon and cloves. Weird. Loved the line about your cards not being in the oven. That's looking at the bright side! I think you're a riot!

Kristen said...

Love this. SOOOO something I would do.