{"id":4831,"date":"2012-03-05T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2017-01-26T21:37:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T02:37:17","slug":"cooking-with-the-crescat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2012\/03\/cooking-with-the-crescat.html","title":{"rendered":"Cooking with The Crescat&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026 Dinner this evening was going to be roast lemon chicken with a rosemary rub and a side of couscous. Sounds so deliciously nutritious doesn\u2019t it?   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2012\/03\/lemon-chicken-and-couscous.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2012\/03\/lemon-chicken-and-couscous-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Who are we kidding here\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4834\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That dinner is not what happened at all. Instead, I put the chicken in the oven and forgot to turn it on and put the pot of water on the stove to boil and forgot to add the couscous. I didn\u2019t realize what I\u2019d done till all the water boiled out of the pot and I smelled burning metal. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow what I am going to do\u201d, I asked. My son, trained for disaster readiness, had in one hand a box of cereal and the other a take-out menu to the Chinese restaurant where we are on a first name basis with the delivery driver. <\/p>\n<p>Nope\u2026 this is what happened instead<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliedee.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"www.nataliedee.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nataliedee.com\/121711\/YOU-CAN-HAVE-SOME-IF-YOU-WANT.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"462\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliedee.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.nataliedee.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 Dinner this evening was going to be roast lemon chicken with a rosemary rub and a side of couscous. Sounds so deliciously nutritious doesn\u2019t it? That dinner is not what happened at all. 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