Today is my half day at work. I have the morning at home all by myself.
(It's not as glorious as I thought it would be to tell you the truth.)
I thought I'd give the house a quick once over since it is guaranteed to stay that way for at least 7 hours until everyone gets back home. Shouldn't take me more than an hour. Tops.
I said to myself, "Self, where should I start?"
"The kitchen" I said. "It'll be quick" I said. Just a few dishes. And whip up some more ranch dressing mix to get the empty jar off the counter. Easy peasy.
But then, I decided I wasn't super in love with the ranch dressing mix recipe I used the last time and maybe I should find a new one. There are a million of them on Pinterest. No problem. I found one in a reasonable amount of time. So, I'll just pull out the ingredients and whip this up. Lickety split. Over and done, right.
Wrong. I found a few half containers of the same herb or spice and decided that would never do so I combined them. Then I found odds and ends baggies of bulk spices I bought along the way and felt compelled to put them in nicely labeled glass jars. Then I sorted everything back into its proper bins and went to put it away.
But the shelves were dirty. Can't have that now. So, I wiped off the shelves and rearranged everything.
OK, now it is an hour later and I still haven't completed my super easy ranch dressing mix. Seriously. I'm annoying myself right about now.
The recipe said to grind the spices together for a smoother dressing/dip. So, out to the shed to pull out my newly acquired 1972 food processor so I can grind my ranch mix. That part goes pretty quickly and without incident. But then it looks like this recipe makes more than will fit in my original jar. So, back to the shed for a bigger jar. I pour the nice ground up herb packed ranch powder into the jar only to find out that it really wasn't that much after all and it will fit back into its original container.
Now, nearly two hours in, I have my little jar of ranch dressing powder complete, a nice clean spice cabinet and my second batch of dishes done for the day.
I probably won't get the whole house done today. Just a hunch...
