You know the phrase - it goes something like - "Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on you".  Well, today it is "Shame on me".  Not following?  Let me explain.

A while ago I posted "Oops - dinner is gonna be late" which listed a bunch of my dinner preparation mistakes that resulted in late dinners. My hope was to learn from the past, yet today I committed Late Dinner Sin #3:

3.  You glance at the recipe in the morning to confirm you have all the ingredients.  But when you start cooking in the evening Step 2 says "Marinate 8 hours".  Result:  Going out for dinner.

Sadly, not only did I glace at the recipe this morning but I also went shopping for all of the necessary ingredients.  Yet, somehow (perhaps because I didn't fully read the recipe), this evening when I went to prepare it I was assaulted with "Refrigerate 8 hours or overnight"  at the end of the first paragraph in the recipe. Gee -  not only did I commit Late Dinner Sin #3 but I did it nearly perfectly!

If you're interested our luscious dinner tonight was going to be "Caramelized Onion, Swiss Chard, and Fontina Cheese Strata" using Swiss chard from the farmers market and the remains of my garden's yield of Walla Walla onions. 

Sigh - looks like we're going out tonight! At least I know what we're eating tomorrow night...

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