I didn't die.
I didn't get sick.
This, at the moment, is my measurement of culinary success.
It was tasty. I recommend it.
But I'm not here to post a recipe. This is about a certain step in the recipe that will demonstrate WHY I get so frustrated with cooking. So you're going to hear all about my frustration and maybe learn something along with me.
First, here is my big issue with recipes in general. This particular recipe, in theory, should have taken me 15 minutes of prep and then a half hour of cooking, so we're talking 45 minutes.
BUT IT NEVER WORKS THAT WAY.
Why?
Because I am an idiot and don't know what I'm doing. They should include TWO times: the one for people who have a clue about cooking and the one for the rest of us who need to read the recipe ten zillion times, have a nervous breakdown, and google steps within the recipe in order to figure things out. The googling takes time, people. Even if you don't fall down a rabbit hole, the googling takes time.
Here's a perfect example from this recipe. You have to use a 10 ounce package of frozen spinach, thawed. Okay, sounds simple, right? Frozen spinach. That's supposed to make life easier. But then I thought about it and was like "Hmm. Do I know how to thaw frozen spinach? Let's make sure I'm clear on that."
It was already noon. I was heading out to buy a package of frozen spinach. Would it be thawed by five or six if I just left it out?
Well, yes. Probably. But! Thawing it isn't enough. Apparently, you need to do this thing with frozen spinach. You have to squeeze it. To get out the excess water. It makes perfect sense in hindsight, but I NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS would have figured that out on my own.
Just so you know: I picked the coldest night of the year to do this activity (seriously: schools delayed their openings the next morning).
Luckily, this lovely YouTube lady decided to make a video of herself squeezing spinach.
#funonasaturdaynight
WATCH AND LEARN, CLUELESS COOKS. WATCH AND LEARN.
And now for a bit of dialogue from that time I squeezed the spinach:
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