~Kitchen Catastrophes~

 The Holiday Season has brought a number of kitchen catastrophes in our house.  Every single day for a week I seemed to botch something up in the kitchen.  Some call it new-mommy brain.  My mother likes to call it cognitive overload.  I just couldn't seem to juggle everything, resulting in one disaster after another.  One particular afternoon I was making chocolate chip cookies for a cookie exchange later that evening.  In order to make enough cookies for the party I needed to triple my recipe... but somehow ended up putting THREE TIMES as much salt in my cookie dough as was needed.  The worst of it was that I didn't realize my mistake until after I had already adding every last ingredient and put a couple trays in the oven....

which after a taste test went straight into the trash.  It was like throwing $10 straight in the trash.  I could have cried.  In fact, I almost did cry, but then realized I only had a few hours to pull something else together and to make matters the kiddos were up from naps and looking for some mischief.  So what did I do?

Well first off I decided not to let all that cookie dough go to waste.  I put Alec and Elyssa to work digging out all the chocolate chips.  They spent a good hour digging in the cookie dough, finding chocolate treasures, and making shapes.  I'm sure they had some taste tests but the dough was so salty that they weren't very interested in eating that nasty stuff.  It was great fun to play with though! 

Meanwhile I dug around my kitchen and luckily found enough ingredients to at least do a double batch of cookies that did not completely flop.  Yay!  I was happy to keep the kids entertained and finally make something edible.  

Hopefully the cognitive overload has run it's course and I can start cooking again.