If I Knew What I Was Doing…

I don’t cook. I can prepare a meal, but I don’t consider myself a cook. A cook is someone who knows what they are doing. I’m never sure. For instance…

Yesterday I decided to make cream of asparagus soup. I had frozen asparagus from a great sale at Geissler’s Supermarket a couple weeks ago. I had to buy a lemon, however, because it called for ½ tsp. finely grated lemon peel. I already had all the other ingredients: flour, nutmeg, butter, milk, turkey broth I had frozen a while back.

I made the soup but I’m not sure if it’s good. I’ll wait until later today to sample it. If I knew what I was doing I would have no doubt. I won’t be home for lunch so I’ll have it for supper with buttered crackers.

So there I was, left with this scarred lemon. What to do? If I knew what I was doing, I’d know exactly what to do.

The best I could come up with was grating the skin from the rest of the lemon. I spread the grated peel on a small plate and popped it into the freezer. I’m thinking I can freeze it and have it for other recipes that call for grated lemon peel. I usually shun such recipes because I never have any lemons to grate, and I will not pay $6+ for a bottle of dried peel. If I knew what I was doing, I’d know if lemon peel can be successfully frozen. It will be a while before I find out.

So there I was with a naked, freshly shaved lemon, and for a change, I had an idea of what to do. I cut it into 8 wedges and will use them in iced tea. I have bottles of Arizona green tea with ginseng and honey in the fridge. I like this alone or half-and-half with pomegranate juice. Either way, it’s one way to use up the lemon wedges.

If I don’t experiment I’ll never know…maybe one of these days I will know what I’m doing. And that will take all the fun out of it. ☺☺☺☺