{"id":165,"date":"2005-05-10T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T19:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2005-05-10T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T19:14:58","slug":"scatterbrained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Scatterbrained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was preparing food for tonight&#8217;s dinner.  We keep our flour in a plastic container for convenience.  The recipe called for a mixture of flour, salt, and pepper to be mixed up in a bowl to be later spread out on a pot roast.  I scooped out the required amount of flour and put it into a bowl, awaiting the addition of the salt and pepper.  Somehow I got distracted and left my post at the counter for a minute.  When I returned, I scooped out the required amount of salt and pepper and added them to the flour and started to stir them all together.  After thoroughly mixing the three ingredients, I realized that I had mixed the salt and pepper with the flour <em>still in its plastic container<\/em>, NOT the flour that had been measured out for the recipe in a bowl.  \ud83d\ude2f  What a dork.  So I had to dump out all the remaining flour and add flour to our grocery list.  Thankfully we didn&#8217;t have too much left anyways, but I still felt pretty sheepish.<\/p>\n<p>Suggestion for next time: When cooking or baking, be sure to put away the flour container (or at least put it aside) before moving on to the next step in the recipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was preparing food for tonight&#8217;s dinner. We keep our flour in a plastic container for convenience. The recipe called for a mixture of flour, salt, and pepper to be mixed up in a bowl to be later spread out on a pot roast. I scooped out the required amount of flour and put it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}