There is a reason I don't like to be in the kitchen with my wife. It is
more than just getting in each other's way. When I got back from the
gym today she was preparing veggies and stuff for the lamb shanks. She
had tied up the herbs in cheese cloth to do the bouquet garnis.

I took over, browned the shanks, sauteed the veggies, added the broth
and the appropriate amount of Guiness and then stuck it in the oven.
She was going to do the rest but had trouble. She wanted to strain the
braising liquid before reducing it and hoped to pour off the fat, so she
needed help. Nuts to that. I got out the hand blender and whizzed it. I
got it to a nice consistency in a few seconds. Then she asked if I had
taken out the bouquet garnis. Oh crap. I figured it would be pretty
well chewed up and running it through a sieve would take care of bigger
bits of the gauze.

I poured it into a sieve and drained it back into the pot. I looked and
I looked and could not see a trace of the gauze. Turns out.... the
little gauze bag was sitting in a bowl with the shanks.

So... I am back out here enjoying a cocktail and will stay out of the
kitchen.

On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 18:43:08 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>There is a reason I don't like to be in the kitchen with my wife. It is
>more than just getting in each other's way. When I got back from the
>gym today she was preparing veggies and stuff for the lamb shanks. She
>had tied up the herbs in cheese cloth to do the bouquet garnis.
>
>I took over, browned the shanks, sauteed the veggies, added the broth
>and the appropriate amount of Guiness and then stuck it in the oven.
>She was going to do the rest but had trouble. She wanted to strain the
>braising liquid before reducing it and hoped to pour off the fat, so she
>needed help. Nuts to that. I got out the hand blender and whizzed it. I
>got it to a nice consistency in a few seconds. Then she asked if I had
>taken out the bouquet garnis. Oh crap. I figured it would be pretty
>well chewed up and running it through a sieve would take care of bigger
>bits of the gauze.
>
>I poured it into a sieve and drained it back into the pot. I looked and
>I looked and could not see a trace of the gauze. Turns out.... the
>little gauze bag was sitting in a bowl with the shanks.
>
>So... I am back out here enjoying a cocktail and will stay out of the
>kitchen.

As a certain somebody would say, hee hee

On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 18:43:08 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>There is a reason I don't like to be in the kitchen with my wife. It is
>more than just getting in each other's way. When I got back from the
>gym today she was preparing veggies and stuff for the lamb shanks. She
>had tied up the herbs in cheese cloth to do the bouquet garnis.
>
>I took over, browned the shanks, sauteed the veggies, added the broth
>and the appropriate amount of Guiness and then stuck it in the oven.
>She was going to do the rest but had trouble. She wanted to strain the
>braising liquid before reducing it and hoped to pour off the fat, so she
>needed help. Nuts to that. I got out the hand blender and whizzed it. I
>got it to a nice consistency in a few seconds. Then she asked if I had
>taken out the bouquet garnis. Oh crap. I figured it would be pretty
>well chewed up and running it through a sieve would take care of bigger
>bits of the gauze.
>
>I poured it into a sieve and drained it back into the pot. I looked and
>I looked and could not see a trace of the gauze. Turns out.... the
>little gauze bag was sitting in a bowl with the shanks.
>
>So... I am back out here enjoying a cocktail and will stay out of the
>kitchen.

I'm sorry. You made me laugh
Janet US

On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 18:43:08 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>There is a reason I don't like to be in the kitchen with my wife. It is
>more than just getting in each other's way. When I got back from the
>gym today she was preparing veggies and stuff for the lamb shanks. She
>had tied up the herbs in cheese cloth to do the bouquet garnis.
>
>I took over, browned the shanks, sauteed the veggies, added the broth
>and the appropriate amount of Guiness and then stuck it in the oven.
>She was going to do the rest but had trouble. She wanted to strain the
>braising liquid before reducing it and hoped to pour off the fat, so she
>needed help. Nuts to that. I got out the hand blender and whizzed it. I
>got it to a nice consistency in a few seconds. Then she asked if I had
>taken out the bouquet garnis. Oh crap. I figured it would be pretty
>well chewed up and running it through a sieve would take care of bigger
>bits of the gauze.
>
>I poured it into a sieve and drained it back into the pot. I looked and
>I looked and could not see a trace of the gauze. Turns out.... the
>little gauze bag was sitting in a bowl with the shanks.
>
>So... I am back out here enjoying a cocktail and will stay out of the
>kitchen.

LOL you are right, too many cooks. Great story, thanks for sharing.

koko

--

Food is our common ground, a universal experience
James Beard

On 2016-04-04 1:12 AM, koko wrote:

>> I poured it into a sieve and drained it back into the pot. I looked and
>> I looked and could not see a trace of the gauze. Turns out.... the
>> little gauze bag was sitting in a bowl with the shanks.
>>
>> So... I am back out here enjoying a cocktail and will stay out of the
>> kitchen.
>
> LOL you are right, too many cooks. Great story, thanks for sharing.
>
>

Not a story. It's true ;-)
A worse one happened years ago when we had some people over for a roast
and the deal was that I was cooking dinner. We were planning on mashed
potatoes. I went out to the kitchen to turn on the potatoes I discovered
that she had the beans on and they were almost done. I had not planned
for them to go on until I took the cooked potatoes off the stove.