I Will Become a Domestic Goddess Darn It!

I could probably turn this entire blog into the failed cooking attempts of Shellie. It has happens often. The Internet makes things look easy, just chop, mix and cook your way into bliss. Well I call BS! I even tried recipes from fellow bloggers. You know they saw the recipe, were skeptical, but tried it and now it is their family's favourite meal! Lies! I say lies.

In my attempt to become the smaller better version of Shellie that I can be I made a few new kitchen appliance purchases that every domestic goddess should have: 1) Kitchen Aid stand mixer and 2) Slow Cooker (this was actually a gift but I would have bought it if I didn't have an awesome friend buy it for me). The stand mixer has already produced magical and delicious cinnamon buns with cream cheese icing, cookies and a few squares. Most of which I pawn off on co-workers so I can accomplish the smaller version of me by making everyone around me bigger. Insert evil laugh here.

The first slow cooker attempt was a cream of potato soup. It was a touch thick but all in all was very tasty and fed me for just about 2 weeks. Second attempt was chicken and rice soup. This one came from a blogger I found through Pinterest. Add it to my Pinterest fails. When I started filling the pot with chicken and stock I panicked and added more stock than panicked again while adding the rice and added more. I really need to stop panicking! I was surprised after 4 hours of cooking that it looked very tasty and tasted slightly starchy but not terrible.

Shellie Moment: I froze the soup until the potato soup was completed. Now I only tested the new soup before packing and freezing but figured it would taste the same later. I thawed some out for lunch today and was scooping it into my bowl. Not pouring like I imagine a normal soup would do. Scooping. I figured it would loosen up like the potato soup did when reheated. No such like. The soup is nasty flavourless mush! It looks and feels like over cooked oatmeal. I need some serious domestic goddess lessons.

This is what it looked like reheated

Can you see the immense look of enjoyment in my eyes?