I'm a busy mom and somehow, almost every week, meal planning gets the best of me. I am literally surprised, each and every Monday, that it's Monday and that suddenly I have no plans for dinner for the week, and in turn, no groceries. So I have to make a quick list and get as few items as possible (likely no less than a mere 200 or so) to get us set to make it through the week.
A few weeks ago, I had picked up one of those pork tenderloins. You know, (essentially) the marinated meat tubes packaged in plastic wrap. Some can have a crazy amount of sodium so I always check to see which is the least and pick up that one. Well, when I made this one several weeks ago, my 2.5 year old kid actually ate it. He called it turkey sausage, but whatever, he ate it. For him to eat a meat product that I make is damn near a miracle so I figured it was something we should try again.
So fast forward to last week, when I picked up a teriyaki version at Target. Now, I remember several years ago, being at my mom and dad's and my mom made one of these things and we both giggled a little bit at how it looked a little "gross." You know what I mean. Real mature. For whatever reason, the one I had picked up a few weeks back just didn't hit me that way. It was fine, just a mere meat tube. But this one. This one was a little different. I took it out of its packaging and put it in the casserole dish and just frowned at it a little bit. Then I put it out of my mind. I was just being silly and immature and this meat tube didn't look like anything other than a simple tube of meat. Not that a tube of meat sounds all that appetizing, but still. Tube of meat. That's all it is.
I put it in the oven and went about preparing the rest of dinner, which, I can't even remember what that was, at this juncture. When I went to take the pork tenderloin out of the oven, I kid you not, it looked like this:
Y'all. I've been married almost 4 years. I have 2 kids. I'm no expert or anything but I think I can admit that I know what a penis looks like. I bet you can, too. And if not, let me tell you, it looks a whole lot like this. My dinner. The pork tenderloin that I'm about to feed my family looks just like I baked a giant penis in the oven. Obviously, I had to take a picture and share it with a few friends, just to be sure and confirm that it did indeed look like a penis. Confirmed. And then I cut it up into little pieces, and we ate it - my 2.5 year old, myself and my husband. Gross.
And now it's Sunday again, and I find myself contemplating what I'll make for dinner this week, because I'm pretty sure I won't be making this "easy" pork tenderloin again for a very long time. What are you making for dinner this week?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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