I smell steak!

Yesterday, the gorgeous ladies Yoda and Sonic were joined by their friend Captain Malcolm Reynolds in a trip to the Farmer's Market. There was much rejoicing over the bounteous supply of wholesome and healthy fruits and vegetables out for sale. Yoda walked away with a massive head of garlic, three ears of yellow corn, a quart of carrots, and a bundle of red potatoes. The potatoes were had with a bit of haggling, 40 potatoes were not needed for the meals ahead, just a few, namely 12. Sonic walked away with a bunch of delicious raspberries and three ears of corn, while the Captain gathered a couple of heavenly smelling peaches and fresh green beans. The rest of the day consisted of seeing a very large mural at a church and a double surprise party for the Captain and another friend.


This morning dawned slightly cloudy and mostly innocent. After a day of trying to be productive and work on their comps, Yoda and Sonic decided to make a dinner of beef, corn, carrots and potatoes and prepare stew for the morrow. The adventure begins...

After running to the store, acquiring a chuck roast, borrowing a crockpot, skyping with one long-distance boyfriend, and cleaning some much needed dishes, Yoda and Sonic started with cleaning the vegetables. Once the potatoes and carrots were nicely garlic-salted and in the toaster oven, and the corn was boiling in the hot pot, the ladies approached the more daunting task of how to cook the roast. Yoda, in capital rouge cook style, has an electric fryer-skillet thing which was expected to take care of the job. However, Yoda and Sonic were not quite aware of how much smoke is created from cooking roast that way. In hopes of not letting the smoke detector enjoy being obnoxious, Yoda, in her infinite wisdom, unplugged the skillet and stuck the skillet out the third story window before taking the lid off to ventilate the smoke.



After sticking the skillet out the window twice, Yoda decided it was not worth the anxiety and transfered the roast into her glass bread pan and had the roast join the potatoes and carrots in the toaster oven. It was about this time that a young boy walking up the stairs outside Yoda's room voiced the surprised title of this piece. "I smell steak!" he shouted. A bit later another girl lauded the cooking efforts, "It smells awesome in here! What is it?!"  Yoda and Sonic may never cook a roast in a toaster oven again, but the subsequent four course meal (timing is a bit difficult in situations like these) was delectable.

The ladies now just hope they leave learning to make stew in a toaster oven for another day.