Dear Jon,
Dried lavender in the spaghetti sauce is not a happy combination.
Love,
Aileen
Jon is proud of his sauce, and rightly so, because it's good. He will often make his sauce for dinner when I am too tired to cook, and I appreciate that. A few weeks ago, I detected a new and troubling flavor in the sauce. It was one of those things that I felt I ought to be able to identify, but couldn't. "I think it might be the tarragon" he said. I didn't think dried tarragon that has sat on the shelves for at least three years would make that much of an impact but I didn't say so. The other night, the strange flavor was still present in the sauce, only this time I saw the bottle of dried lavender out on the counter amongst the other sauce spices.
I'd bought the lavender after seeing a recipe for a lavender cake I wanted to try, but after taking a whiff, I decided I didn't want to make a lavender cake after all. It smelled nothing like I expected it to. Not that you want your food to smell like air fresheners and cleaning products, but still, it was a let-down. So the bottle sat, unused, until fully half of it disappeared into two pots of sauce.
On another note, today is foley catheter day in skills lab.
We've rapidly progressed through the skills, starting with handwashing and bedmaking, then onto vital signs and more. The last couple weeks were hanging IV fluids, changing the tubing and flushing the line (which I did with a real patient on Monday. I was proud of myself. Jon rolled his eyes.) Then came sterile technique. From that I learned that I will never be an OR nurse as I contaminated my sterile field repeatedly. Alas, nurses have to use sterile technique outside of the OR, such as when inserting foleys. I think the only skills left this semester are NG tubes, more with IVs and IM & SQ injections.
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RYC: Thank you so much for starting my day with a chuckle and guffaw. "Like waves of nausea" indeed! Jon, Jon, Jon - no lavendar in the spaghetti sauce. Does that stuff even grow in Italy?
Sounds like you're cruising along in nursing.
lol!
quick! dump the rest of the lavender in some little cloth bag and tell him "Oh honey, I made a sachet especially for you! Hang it up in the closet, will you?" hahaha
And you're cruising right along in school! :D
Dear god. What is it with men and their kitchen sink approach to spaghetti sauce anyway? When I was in my early 20's it seemed as if every guy I knew took great pride in his spaghetti sauce. It was usually the only thing he could cook and it was usually awful. I remember one guy who threw a big party and made a massive batch of some truly dreadful spaghetti. As I'm choking it down he starts trolling for compliments and the best I could do was "this is really amazing. what's the seasoning, anyway?" He gestured toward a three-tiered spice rack on the wall, probably two dozen different herbs and spices, and said "all of those". But even he didn't have a jar of dried lavender! ewwwww!
Oh, my. There are certain combos that just should never be attepted, and Lavender should not be anywhere near spaghetti sauce. I liked the sachet idea!
Men make great spaghetti sauces. Just say "thank you very much" and enjoy the meal.
It was still good sauce...lavender or no lavender...You all want my sauce, oh...dont be shy...yes you do!
Ok Ok no more lavender...shit, it was an herb and I thought WTF... herb good in sauce..no? Obviously I was swooning over my own culinary expertise and could not see beyond my own greatness. I am humbled, but not daunted!
Lavender and tomato = icky. But lavender and chicken can be quite delicious. Don't be fooled by its mildly public restroomy aroma...
Perhaps, but dried lavender in the creme brulee is to die for.