Confession

warriormomerin

I'll preface this by saying whenever I make a roast in the crockpot I use baby carrots. Of course I didn't have any baby carrots today, only regular ones.

My confession is that I've never peeled a vegetable in my life. I couldn't even figure out how to use my mom's fancy Pampered Chef peeler so I just used a knife. By the time I got done with those poor carrots they were only 1/4 of their original size. Then I must have used the wrong kind of knife to chop them up because 1/2 of them ended up bouncing on to the floor.

It's a good thing my kids don't like cooked carrots because I maybe got 1 cup of chopped carrots out of the whole bag. I hate cooking.

Go ahead, laugh at me.

buckeyethor

Carrots always bounce away on me too.

curlypie1

I love you and your poor cutlery skills. Thanks for the visual!

That was the hardest part of learning to cook for me. A good knife helps.

I used to be on potato-peeling duty growing up so I know the peeler all too well. :-)

Superchicy

My job growing up was peeling and cutting carrots.  I'm surprised I still have all of my fingers.  I now always make sure I have baby carrots on hand.

Moesten

When I was 17 I worked at Bath and Body Works. They mopped the floors on Sunday nights. The first Sunday I closed the manager asked me to mop the floor. I told her I would be happy to but that she would need to show me how since I had never mopped a floor in my life. She looked at my like I had 27 heads. 

Never having mopped a floor I can understand. But I am stunned that you've gone 30 years without peeling a vegetable. How did that happen? 

l.m.k.

daves_sweetpea:

She has a  Pampered Chef can opener that I cannot figure out for the life of me. 

I love my Pampered Chef can opener! My mom got it for me for Christmas along with the Pampered Chef slap-chop thing.

Peeling veggies is the worst. I always lose some skin or a piece of a fingernail. So gross.

Meg41208

l.m.k.:

daves_sweetpea:

She has a  Pampered Chef can opener that I cannot figure out for the life of me. 

I love my Pampered Chef can opener! My mom got it for me for Christmas along with the Pampered Chef slap-chop thing.

I have both of these.  I like how the can opener doesn't drop the lid into the can.  That's so gross when that happens. 

sistrkate

I'm laughing.  But it's not because I'm any better at it, it's just that you have such a fun way of phrasing things.  I love the way you write 

baze2

I am with you..not much of a cook (DH does all that!)

I love Pampered chef stuff though .The can opener ROCKS..I agree: No lid in the can and no sharp edges. I would have washed the carrots and left the skin on. Frankly that is where the nutrients are anyway!

 

warriormomerin

BTW, my roast turned out very tasty. Funky shaped carrots and all.