What a mess!

What a mess!

You know what happens when I set out to make soup or lasagna or meatloaf. I go into assembly-line mode and get down and dirty about the whole thing.

Yesterday and today were no exceptions. I started to make the huge pot of chili yesterday. That part went pretty well - got everything cooking and starting the seasoning. It was in the 30s last night, so John put the pot (16-quart) out on the porch to cool down overnight.

This morning, he brought it back inside. I corrected the seasonings, and we started to bag it up to go in the freezer. This is usually the messiest part - using the wide-mouth funnel and pouring the soup into the bag and getting it zipped closed - without getting too much on the outside of the bag. But we soon had 7 bags ready to go in the freezer. We’d cleared some space, and John started putting the bags on the shelf.

I had started bagging the rest of the chili, when disaster struck. One of the bags came open in the freezer. While John was trying to get hold of that, another one came open. Now there was chili all over the freezer, the bags, John, the floor, the carpet. !@#$$%%^^&*&***&^^%$$## We managed to salvage a lot from the opened bags. And then there was the floor and everything else to clean up.

Finally we wound up with seven bags (quarts) total. We’ll wait until everything is frozen solid, and then we’ll defrost and clean the freezer. Life does get messy sometimes.

Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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This photo of chili is from Google images, but it looks pretty much like mine.