fail, minus f, i, & l = save.

So I thought I was all prepared etc when I took pork chops out of the freezer yesterday and put them in the fridge for dinner tonight. I was so excited, I was even going to marinate them in peanut ginger dressing that we got sometime... probably for our wedding. So when I got home from school today, around 5, I took out the pork, opened it up, smelled it, and gross. Had to throw it away. damn. All of that nice preparation in the trash. literally.

So anyways, I am an expert at turning fails into saves :) I found way back in the freezer some jalepeno & cheddar sausages that I thawed in the microwave. I made those (a total time saver, btw, love those prepackaged gourmet sausages) plus skillet taters (recipe from Hubby) and I roasted asparagus with lemon juice. So sausages and potatoes are easy, plus I talked about potatoes already so let's talk about asparagus.

So asparagus is one of my fave veggies, I just love it and you can make in so many ways. So today I roasted it in our toaster oven (the greatest invention ever) in 10 minutes. I didn't have to preheat an oven or wait forever for it to warm up and then again to roast my lovely asparagus. It's amazing.

Anyways, I did the snap thing with the asparagus, cut off the ends, then left them whole as I put some olive oil, salt, and pepper on them. Then, right before I put it in the toaster oven, I put some lemon juice on them. So delicious. I put them in at 400 degrees for a little less than 10 minutes. They were crisp, roasted, with the slightest taste of lemon and absolutely delicious.

So, I turned an epic fail into a pretty good save. And, since I packed the dishes and silverware already, we ate it on paper plates with red forks. And the stuff didn't leak through the paper plates. phew. And to make things even better[!!], the meal was ready and being dished onto plates as Hubby walked in the door from work. I am an AWESOME housewife.

As we say in the US, Happy Eating. As they say in German which this sausage is supposed to be from, Guten Appetit!