Cooking is hard (That's what she said)

So cooking is hard. I always thought cooking was easy, but that's because I've always followed a recipe from a cook book with exact portions and direct instructions. But when you get a recipe from a friend and your "friend" says "boil 3 or 4 good sized peppers, depending on how much you're going to make" and gives you no proportions of water to keep in the pan, then cooking is hard.

Throw in the fact that we don't have a blender, but we do have an immersion blender, which I thought would work even better. Turns out the immersion blender we have was my roommates from when he was nine. Nine. What kind of a nine year old wants an immersion blender anyway? But I digress, so about halfway through blending it starts making a funny noise, and I'm looking and checking the blender to make sure nothing is falling off. Lo and behold my roommate comes in and says "Don't worry about that noise, it's fine."

I'm going to type that again because what he said was "Don't worry about that noise, it's fine."

Now I didn't realize he had had this thing since he was nine at this point in the story so I figured that most people know their own appliances and I would go ahead and follow his advice and ignore the terrible grinding noises coming from the twenty year old motor in my hand attached to a sharpened blade spinning at 7,000 RPMs immersed in boiling hot liquid. I assume you can see where I'm going with the story. So the blender breaks, the blade falls out into the pan, and I promptly stop the blade by taking my finger off the button (which is a genius way to start and stop something like that by the way, even for the 1980s).

So I know we don't have a blender, but I'm looking for one anyway in case I missed it somehow, and what do you know? Before my very eyes I see the most glorious site I have yet to behold in my life since, an unopened box containing one (1) small sized Cuisinart. YAY! Now all my problems are solved, I have to mix it in sections yes, but that's not a big deal. Until I try the first small portion. I learned a very valuable lesson today: Cuisinarts are not meant for liquid, only chopping solid food. If I had known how to cook I would know this, but as I stated in the beginning, cooking is hard.

Well Nick managed to get the blender working again (By "Jamming it back in there") and I was able to finish making my sauce, except for one small problem: I seem to have put WAY too much water in my sauce because it has no flavor and it is the consistency of well, water.

So even without all the terrible mechanical problems, cooking is hard.