Sometimes I have to go forward a few steps, then backwards a bit farther in order to appreciate what I already have.
Does that ever happen to you?
The other day, I was watching several episodes of Sorted Food on YT, and decided I needed to get out the cheap slicer/ dicer I bought on line several months ago, because it could cut up our Russett potatoes into French fries without much work expended.
Instead, I cut up a quartered purple onion to make pickled onions. It was terrible. The pieces were jagged, horrible little things that were not at all what I wanted. I washed, and dried it, and put it back into the “give away” box, where it belonged, and had been for months.
I then got out my amazingly sharp mandolin, which I had also purchased last year sometime, and cut up the other purple onion that I had into beautifully thin, symmetrical rings, and added them to the pickling jar. What a difference.
I, unfortunately, didn’t grab the guard until the moment after I thought “I really should be using the”, (pause for affect), guard. Of course I cut my finger! My hand, which was wet from adding the first half of the beauties to the jar, slipped off of the onion just as I was starting to think the word guard. Duh!!!
Lesson learned.
Until next time.
Be safe, be healthy, be happy.