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Crazier Things Have Happened? Nope This One Tops the Cake…

Okay. So funny story. Yesterday, I decided since it was a chilly, rainy day, I would make a stew for dinner. Well I decided that since I have seen on many cooking shows, you can use a pressure cooker to make stews and other foods, that I would give it a try. Well, I have never used a pressure cooker before, but I had the instructions, and I thought… “How hard can this be?”  I set the stove on medium heat because I wanted to cook it slow because my wonderful hubby wouldn’t be home for about 4 hours. I put the stew meat, veggies and water in the pressure cooker and let it cook. I checked on it about an hour later and it was steaming and the pressure cooker was whistling. I took the pressure cooker off the heat and started to release the pressure. Seems ok. Well the steam ended and all that was coming out was the stew. So I went to open the lid. My 6 year old was beside me, so I had him move… Just in case something happened. Man… was I glad I asked him to move. As soon as I took the lid off the pressure cooker, my stew went 3 feet into the air and covered EVERYTHING. The stove, the walls, floor, my venthood, cabinets.. EVERYTHING!  I am laughing, my son is laughing. I asked my son to get me as many towels as he could find. It took me a good 45 minutes to clean the stew up. But, the good thing was, not all of it was on the floor. There was enough for the 3 of us to have dinner.

So, I called my mom and she wasn’t home. Then I called my closest friends to give them a good laugh. Because…well, they know me and it’s not often that I am laughing about making a mess of dinner. I mean, I burn hot dogs and forget I will have water boiling until the water is gone and my pots are scorched and ruined… So, yeah… My cooking disasters are well-known with the ones closest to me. Normally, I cry for a good hour or so… But watching my stew explode all over my kitchen was priceless, so of course I am going to share it.

Anyway, I called the ladies and told them. They laughed (not at me, but with me) and one of them suggested that I should have video taped it. My next thought was… “Can I do it again?”  Needless to say, I thought better of it because I didn’t want to clean the mess again, and if I did it again, I wouldn’t have dinner ready for when my hubby came home.

I did text him and have him call me. He was emotionless… well at least over the phone. His words to me were, “Words cannot describe what is going through my mind at this moment.”  Yeah… I know, kinda strange, but if you knew my husband, you will know it’s typical. But I knew he was laughing way too hard on the inside and he didn’t want me to start crying or feel bad about wasting so much food.  However, when he got home from work, one of the first things he did was call him mom. Mom was more worried about making sure that I was ok than anything else. (She is such a sweet lady-love her to death!)  Then, my hubby asked me, "And what have you learned today?” My first thought was, “Well, that Brandi no longer cooks dinner!” Yes, I actually said it. But he retorted with, “No. The lesson that is to be learned is, ‘Always read, Pressure Cookers for Dummies before trying to cook with it’”.  Well, my smart ass said, “But we don’t have it, and I read the manual”. He laughed and told me to use Google next time I want to use something that I have never used before because you can always find a book for Dummies when you need one.

Oh, and he told me that when using a pressure cooker, you should ALWAYS let the food cool down before you open the lid…. NOW YOU FREAKING TELL ME THIS??? WHERE WERE YOU WITH THIS ADVISE 3 STINKING HOURS AGO???