There it sat, unused for these past few months.
With warm weather and vacations there was no need for it.
As the school year begins the weather turns and activities ramp up. This means less time to prepare warm dinners that are ready to eat when the family needs to be.
And so the Crock Pot is brought out and put to use.
Tonight we will have stew, one of the “go to” recipes for Wednesdays. It is an easy recipe, but as with many Crock Pot dishes, it takes a bit of work early in the morning. Knowing this, I planned my grocery shopping, which I did on Monday, to have everything I need for this morning so I would not have to go back to the store if not today, at all this week.
I am on auto-pilot this morning, cutting up onion, carrot, potatoes, etc. It isn’t until I start putting the various ingredients into the Crock Pot that I begin to think about what I am supposed to be doing and how to do it.
Something I should have done before I went grocery shopping.
Normally I can simply throw together my stew without much thought or planning. Heck, I have gotten to the point where I normally will just put “stew” on my shopping list and I know which ingredients to get. Since it has been a few months I did not do that for Monday, instead I put down individual ingredients to make sure I didn’t forget something.
But as I am out of practice I forgot a couple of ingredients.
So I had to go back to the store this morning, negating the effectiveness of my mega-grocery shopping trip on Monday.
And then…
AND THEN…!
As I was putting in the last bits into the Crock Pot this afternoon I realized there was one other thing I had forgotten to pick up at the grocery store.
