When Frugality Becomes Stupidity
I have Poppop–to thank for my many penny-pinching ways, but sometimes, I’m too cheap for my own good.
Tonight I was making blueberry muffins.*
I filled all the muffin cups and then there was just a wee bit of batter left. Enough for maybe 3 muffin cups. At first I was going to do the rational thing–save it in the fridge for eating raw in the morning–but then, I’d already eaten my fill of batter throughout the day and the thought of more actually kinda grossed me out.
So then I was just going to wait for the first batch to be done, and then re-use a few of those muffin cups and bake again.
But the thought of using all that electricity on THREE MUFFINS just ate at my inner-Poppop until I decided to put the last of it in this little glass ramekin and put that right in there with the first batch.
Only I probably had enough batter to fill two ramekins. And I could only find one.
And I ended up frying half of it on the bottom burner of my oven.
Yours,
The Queen of Frugality. Or, you know, that other thing.
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*(Healthy eating, what?) (These were in no way following ANYBODY’s health recommendations, I don’t care who you are. Refined white flour. Refined sugar. Butter. Eggs. Well, maybe you could count the blueberries, but then, they were cooked, so all the antioxidants and what have you were probably killed, if not mutated into some kind of cancer-causing agent. Ahem.)
Filed in: just life | November 5, 2009
Echo
LOL!
Nat2
I was waiting for you to say the ramekin broke, but then I saw the photo–those are the tough kind.
I love your gentle sense of humor.
Simply Mother
Oh yes, Nat, that’s quite likely to happen too. I don’t do well with glass. You’re right, those are the tough kind. Amazingly tough if they’ve survived ME through 8 years and many tile floors!
Guess what? My other ramekin was in the dishwasher, clean, the whole time.
Also, I know it would have made more sense to take a picture of the burned mess at the bottom of my oven, but then you would have seen how nasty my oven is, and that’s probably best left off the internet.
Nat2
Yes, thank you, we are trying to keep the internet clean.
Manda
Yes, LOL! Ramekin is such a fun word, too.