Well my post today is late going up. It’s all my fault. I know for some of you that messes up your whole weekend because who doesn’t like starting their Saturday with some Redneck cooking?
I normally write my weekly post on Friday evening and I had planned out a post that I think would have made Emeril and Wolfgang jealous. I was looking forward to writing the post when I went to bed Thursday. When I got up Friday morning I had a slight tickle in the back of my throat. I felt fine otherwise so I had my morning coffee and got ready for work.
As the day wore on, the tickle in the back of my throat grew worse and my nose got more and more stuffed up. By the time I left work for the week I could barely breath through my nose, my head felt like it was stuffed with cotton and was slowly spinning much like the restaurant in the Space Needle in Seattle.
After I got home, my wife and I ran to the hardware store to pick up some material for a Christmas project we are working on as well as to the grocery store to pick up some groceries. By the time we got home I was really feeling bad. My cough was much worse and my head was really clogged up. I decided I needed to take some cough medicine to clear my head and ease the coughing. I took a dose and after a little while I felt a little better. I was coughing less, but my head was still stuffed up. I took another dose of cough medicine and sat down in the recliner to relax. Again the cough medicine made me feel a little better, so I took another dose and then another and was really feeling pretty good.
After 5 doses of my cough medicine and some time relaxing in the recliner I felt good enough to write my post. I sat at the computer and began typing up the post. Wow, this one was going faster than ever. In no time I had it all written up and ready to upload it to CliqueClack. I went to get another dose of cough medicine and something to snack on. Lorie happened to walk by my computer and look at what I had written. When I walked back into the living room she asked me what I was working on. My CliqueClack post I told her. You cannot post that she told me. After a lengthy discussion I agreed to wait until this morning and proofread the post again before posting it.
I got up this morning and had a cup of coffee. I sat down to check email and look over my post before submitting it. As I read the post I realized that writing that post after 5 doses of my cough medicine really was not a good idea. It rambled on about many different subjects that did not even relate to the post in any way. There were words I could not even identify and I have seen Rube Goldberg devices that were less complicated than the recipe steps. In the end when I had finished reading this bizarre post, I thought it was impossible that anyone, whether on cough medicine or not, could write that long a post and screw up the directions for taking a frozen pizza out of the freezer and putting it in the oven to cook that badly. If I were to post that and anyone were able to follow the directions they would be lucky if they only burnt up their kitchen and not the whole house.
The basic steps I had in the post after extracting all of the rambling were: Take frozen pizza out of freezer. Pre-heat oven to 500 degrees. When the oven is hot, place frozen pizza in oven. Bake for 45 minutes. Remove pizza from oven, The pizza may be hot, so be careful. Eat and enjoy. There was no mention of taking the pizza out of the packaging. And most frozen pizzas are supposed to be cooked for 15 to 20 minutes at 400 to 450 degrees so I am not sure where the 500 degrees for 45 minutes came from.
The bottom line is, while this cough medicine is great for treating a cold, it should have a caution label not to try to write a recipe post for a food web site while under the influence of the medicine. Have a great weekend and hopefully my next post will not put your kitchen at risk.
West Bend 76006 Rotary Snack Oven
Clacked by Jeff Love
on Dec 14, 2009 @ 12:00 EST5EDT
Love it!