Burnt spaghetti, bloody salad, and runny crumble cake

Oh boy, with a title like that you should already start cringing. In my last post I mentioned I feel really good, so I decided to make a big meal for when Jared got home. This is the first time I have cooked a meal since I got pregnant cause I couldn't stomach cooking before. My craving has been Italian lately so I made Spaghetti Bolognese with Italian Salad and Cinnamon Streusel muffins.

Things were going pretty good at first and I was cooking and cleaning the kitchen while listening to my 90's work out music and feeling pretty much like supermom. Things started going downhill quickly.

I started chopping the salad and halfway through my knife slipped and I sliced my finger. No big deal, I just grabbed a paper towel and applied pressure to stop the bleeding and went and got a band aid. The whole time thinking how bad this was going to hurt later in the shower. I went back to chopping, thought long and hard about throwing out what I was chopping cause I didn't know if blood got on the cabbage. Nah, it's just Jared and I, no reason to throw out a perfectly good piece of cabbage.

So then I started on the spaghetti. The sauce went flawless, what could go wrong with spaghetti? The water started boiling and I poured some oil in, only I poured way to much oil in. Oh well, it won't hurt anything right? So I started boiling the spaghetti, I turn my back for 1 second and when I turn back the pot is boiling over. I go to turn down the burner when the entire stove top erupts into flames. Well now I know what happens when you put too much oil in the pot of spaghetti. I drop the milk jug that's in my hand and run around like crazy trying to figure out how to put out this fire. Now I have started a LOT of grease fires in my day, and I have learned that you can't throw water on them. Luckily I remembered this little bit of information so I just basically ran around the kitchen screaming and did nothing to put the fire out. Oh but I did knock over an entire open box of cheeze-its onto the floor and make a big mess. The grease burned off and the fire went out. PHEW!!! That was close.

So I started on the muffins. They came from a Betty Crocker box for goodness sake, what could I do wrong?!?!? Well anyone that knows me well knows that I don't read instructions, I just look at the ingredients and then assume I know what I'm doing. So I put everything together and mix. The mixture looked smooth and the box said it should look lumpy. Hmmmm. So I start to put the mix into the muffin tins and then I see something about "crumble". Crumble?! How do I crumble this silky smooth mixture?! That's when I read the instructions. Apparently I was supposed to mix two of the ingredients together and set aside to crumble on the top of the muffins. Oops. So I backtrack and grab the cinnamon and get out more butter and start cutting the butter into the cinnamon sugar mixture. The mixture didn't look right, it wasn't mixing together, it was all....crumbly. So I got the bright idea of adding more and more butter until the mixture would actually mix together. I look at the very last instruction on the box (the only one I failed to read, I mean the last instruction is just cooking instructions right?) It said to take the mixture and "sprinkle" onto the top of the muffin batter. I look at my mixture, yeah that's not gonna sprinkle very well. My batter was already very runny due to all the added ingredients from my first mistake. I "plopped" the mixture on top of the muffins and threw them in the oven.

It looks so easy

FAIL!!