Bored

It is Sunday in the mountains. The weather is overcast and there is rain in the forecast. The football games that our heroine can get on her cable TV suck. To help calm her boredom she runs on her treadmill, finds an Indian Jones movie on TV and heads into the kitchen.


She starts out by making a pumpkin roll for the office. She makes the cake and sets it to cool while she gets the filling ready.

In no time at all she has the pumpkin roll ready to go into the refrigerator.

Next she decides that she really wants some peanut butter cookies. The only recipe she has that does not require chilling for 2 hours is the one for peanut butter blossoms. So she gets out her bag of Hershey Kisses and peels 2 dozen of them.

While the oven is preheating for the cookies she makes the dough and rolls it into balls.

When the cookies were done she put the kisses onto each one and put them on a rack to cool.

As our heroine finished the cookies she realized it was time to start dinner for her and her tenant. She had previously thawed out, peeled, cooked and chopped up a pound of shrimp.

She then got out some garlic and one of her favorite kitchen toys. You place a clove of garlic in the yellow rubber thing, press down and roll it a few times and your garlic is peeled. Then you grate it in the bowl and it purees the garlic super fast.

The pureed garlic is ready to go in the pot. Our heroine made garlic shrimp and grits for dinner.

Once the garlic is pureed and the shrimp is cooked the meal comes together in about 20 minutes. It is sooooooo good.

Of course all the playing has it price and in this case it was a good amount of dirty dishes.

Our heroine donned her rubber gloves and got right to cleaning up the mess. She is good at this.

Still bored but at least with a full stomach and a clean kitchen she looked at all the tomatoes on her counter.

She got out her new canning book that her wonderful daughter got her for Mother's Day. Our heroine read that if she peeled the tomatoes and cored them she could make some crushed tomatoes and then freeze them for future use.

She put all the peeled tomatoes in a pot, crushed them and them simmered them for a few minutes.

Once they had simmered she measured out how much she had. Added the required amount of lemon juice, put them in a tupperware and froze them.

All that done she cleaned up the tomato dishes, got a glass of wine and sat down to watch her favorite show.