If I knew you were coming I'd have bought a cake

I figured out that cooking makes me feel like I'm heading toward an inevitable Lucy Ricardo moment. I tried to cook a simple soup recipe this Sunday for myself because I actually felt like cooking a meal. I got home with the ingredients I needed and realized that I didn't read the recipe all the way and that I actually needed 3 zucchini instead of 1. So I tried to compensate by using less of everything which worked out fine.

Then I got out the blender because the recipe required that everything be pureed. As I was pulling the blender down from the cabinet, I remembered my last cooking experience where I became a 30 minute episode heading for a climax in fiasco. I had used my blender to make hummus (remember the tahini quest? The tahini is at the health food store) and it quit working with about half of the chick peas properly mashed and so I had to use a spatula and mash the rest as best as I could. I thought about eating it without the benefit of puree, but it didn't really seem right (not that I would "know" right from wrong with regard to a cooking project, it was just a gut instinct).

I drove to Target and realized that my head was pounding and that I felt nauseated. Yep, I hadn't eaten breakfast and it was almost 2 pm. So I bought a new blender and resisted the urge to stop at Taco Bell on the way home. I pureed. The soup was ok. Rather anti-climactic for the time I invested and wooziness.

At the end of this meal I realized I had a storage problem. Where do I put the soup? I had to puree in about 3 batches and I had no tupperware that size. Everyday Food said it should be stored in an airtight container (don't question the recipe--obey), but I only found one old frozen blueberries plastic tub and for some reason I didn't have any more containers (I suspect that I have given some food away recently in my other tubs).

Frustrated, I went to Walgreens (it's closer than Target-- about 7 blocks from my house) and looked for new containers. I was unhappy with their selection and remembered a pitcher I had purchased this summer with a twist top (one of those summery looking things that makes you want to make sun tea). I thought, "that would be great!" So I went back home empty handed and searched for my summer pitcher, but could not locate the silly thing. (If anyone remembers what happened to it let me know. The last thing I remember it holding was sangria).

What was left sits airtightish in my fridge in the blender pitcher it was pureed in. Anyway, if you would like a helping of zucchini curry soup or whatever it is stop by. I cannot possibly eat that much soup on my own.