Cooking for dummies

Take a guess? If you said Macaroni and Cheese, then you’re right, if you chose anything else, then you wouldn’t understand. Yes these are my attempts at making mac n cheese . I do good with vegan food, vegetarian food, and pescatarian food but when it comes to soulfood I’m lost. So now I’m raising my grandson and he‘s use to big family meals around the holidays and although I don’t celebrate I can’t find it in my heart to impose my beliefs on him. Because for me (when I was growing up) the holidays meant a lifetime of memories. Well he wanted a banana pudding for the holidays so I made him a banana pudding. I called my sister first and I asked her to send me the recipe through text. She told me to look in the family cookbook, so I did cause I know she was busy. I think that I got the wrong cookbook or something cause everybody else recipes turn out perfect , mines are the only ones that turn out to be anything other than what they’re supposed to, so let’s get back to the banana pudding at hand she didn’t send me the text, as I said she told me to look in the family cookbook which I did. On one page she has the recipe for the banana pudding on the next page I guess that’s where she was telling me how to make whip cream, unbeknownst to me that is if you did not purchase whip cream. How on earth was I supposed to know that, so I brought all of the ingredients listed on the first page and all the ingredients listed on the second page which included whip cream, it also included heavy cream, powdered sugar, and something else, oh yeah and a blender, so I had to run out back to the store to grab a blender (before the stores closed, because this was the 24th of December). I didn’t have a kitchen blender, I get back home only to realize (after I started preparing the banana pudding) that I had the wrong vanilla wafers, which aren’t even called vanilla wafers they’re called Nilla wafers. Long story short I had to get out and run to five different stores to find Nilla wafers. evidently everybody in this town I live in makes banana pudding for the holidays because there weren’t any on the selves, I had to ask people to check in the back. It was at the last store which was big lots that the lady told me I was searching for the wrong cookie which is why nobody could find them. So finally four or five hours later I get home go to make the Banana pudding and that’s when I realized I didn’t need the blender, I didn’t need heavy cream, I didn’t need the powdered sugar, I didn’t need any of that because I had already had the whip cream. Oh and let’s not forget that instead of instant pudding I picked up some sort of pudding that said cook and serve. I didn’t even know that existed. It wasn’t until after I mixed it all into the milk that I realized one said cook and serve and one said instant so I immediately emergency call my sister and she walked me through the repair process (which actually happens every time I go to trying to cook.) I started making that recipe early in the morning it was about 7 or 8 o’clock pm that night that I was completely finished and exhausted and had to get up the following day to prepare him a meal because he wanted a turkey which I don’t know how to cook either. So in trying to keep my life simple I brought Patti LaBelle’s or Aretha Franklin‘s macaroni and cheese and peas and with smoked turkey (can’t remember which one) everything was frozen so all I had to do was warm everything up and make this time a little bit simpler for me this time then it had been in the past. None of that ended up happening, nothing was simpler. I ended up with 10-12 item. I was only supposed to have 4. I was emotionally, mentally, and physically drained by the end. After it was all over said and done I slept for 38 hours straight through. There’s gotta be a simpler way for people like me…So if you’re like me, don’t feel bad, just keep trying., it’s not going to get easier but at least you’re not giving up.

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