Dinner Disaster

It all started with me wanting to plant the asparagus last night, nasty vegetables but Mr. B loves it.  Well mother nature had something else in mind. Rain, ALOT of rain. Alright, we need the rain so I rolled with it. I had been planning on making meatloaf this week any way. What better on a cold rainy night than some nice comfort food. All afternoon I had been thinking about dreamy creamy mashed potatoes, heavenly meatloaf, and peas, frozen peas cooked to perfection still crisp with that wonderful pop not mushy like school lunch. A combination that, in my opinion, can make the angels sing. Afterwards Mr. B and I would snuggle in on the couch with Gus and watch War Horse. A perfect evening.

The meat loaf was coming along, vegetables were cooking and Mr. B was doing dishes. We were trying this recipe. It was going to be able to make not one not two but three meatloaves. Score!! I could freeze the extra two for latter meals. We were up to the step were every thing gets mixed together into one gooey lump of meat. However, Mr. B had pulled out a roast not burger from the deep freeze. CRAP!! Ok not to worry we will roll with it and just make something with that hunk of meat. We could finish the meat loaf the following night. Quick inventory of the fridge and stir fry it is. That did not turn out the way we had planned. For the first time in two years Mr. B told me that dinner was edible but not that great. The first time in TWO YEARS!! And he was right. To top it all off by the our just edible dinner was done it was to late to watch the movie and still make it to bed at a reasonable time, we have to be functional human beings rather early. 


It was a crappy night! But no crying over spilled milk. From the meat loaf disaster I learned two valuable lessons.

•  Always double check what you are grabbing from the deep freeze. Yes the basement can be rather creamy and you just want to get back upstairs, but read the label!
• Venison roast is horrible for a stir fry. Last night it had a horrible gamy flavor, more than I had ever had. Now I love venison and we use it in the place of beef for just about everything. Stir fry is not a good idea.