Dim Sum Diaries
Well I really did it yesterday. Lo-Gung came home with the kids at 5:30 pm yesterday to find two fire trucks parked at our house. Firemen were in and out of our house...the kitchen...sigh...

Lo-Gung was really mad. It seems I may have had a slight accident in the kitchen...I was making meat loaf yesterday and I thought that making IceBox Rolls would be a good accompaniment...I had this recipe and everything. So everything is fine, I'm doing the Martha Stewart thing, and then I get to the part of the recipe that says,

Bring one cup of water and 1/2 cup shortening to a boil in a small saucepan over high heat; boil 5 minutes.

So that's what I did...but then I had to go check my email, so I left the kitchen for a second...okay maybe a few minutes...I had five, didn't I? Next thing I know, I smell this burning. I rush back to the kitchen and find the saucepan is on fire!! It had already spread and I didn't have a fire extinguisher...so I called 911!!!!

Luckily the fire trucks came pretty quickly and they broke down the door with axes...so now our door is gone. They put out the fire pretty quickly, but the entire kitchen is blackened...then Lo-Gung came home...and the kids...they were crying....why did Mommy blacken the kitchen...was it punishment for something they did...

It was horrible. The firemen were scolding me...and Lo-Gung was scolding me...and I had had enough with the scolding...so I fed them all meatloaf to shut them up. The insurance adjuster is supposed to be out today...I'll let you all know what happens...