Why Cooking is Not My Favorite Thing

I'd been thinking about making banana bread for my visiting teaching girls and some friends who recently had babies. Yesterday while the boys were at preschool I set out to do it. I'd never made this recipe before but it sure was yummy when I'd had it at my sister in law's house years ago. Initially I was only making one recipe but then after realizing I had 2 cups of banana I decided to double it. I had to go back and double all of the ingredients I already had put in. Then I read the butter wrong. I thought it said 3/4 cups so I doubled it and put in 1 1/2 cups. I later realized it only said 1/4 cup butter so I had put in a cup of extra butter. I was more than half way through the recipe so I decided to go ahead and finish and see what the batter tasted like. It still tasted super yummy so I went ahead and poured the batter into the bread pans. My mom had bought 5 mini loaf pans to cook the bread in and I had so much batter that I filled all 5 pans right to the top! I was worried about them overflowing but I went ahead and put them all in the oven. The recipe said the bread should cook for about an hour. I set my timer for 40 minutes because I know my oven cooks fast. I came back downstairs after 30 minutes and smelled the yummy smell of banana bread baking. Yay me - I must have done it right! I opened the oven and none of the batter had overflowed and the tops were a nice golden brown. Another yay me moment! I reached in and got the first pan out and stuck the toothpick in. It came out clean. I reached in to get the next pan and my thumb touched the top burner. Ouch!! At the same time I burned my thumb I dropped my hot pad - right onto the bottom burner. Poof - the hot pad is on fire!! Goodbye yummy banana bread smell. I get the fire out and start reaching for the second pan again. While doing this I knock over the pan next to it and batter starts pouring out from it onto the bottom of my oven. My mom just cleaned my oven while she was here this week! Apparently that loaf wasn't done yet. I decided to leave the rest of the loafs in the oven for another 5 minutes which made the remaining 4 loafs get too brown on top - not burnt but not pretty. The toothpicks all came out clean so I let the loafs cool and wrapped them up and took them to my friends. I leave one loaf for us and boy is it yummy! But then we get to this one little part that is all soupy! I guess I didn't check there with my toothepick. Tyler says it is all the extra butter. And that my friends is why cooking is not my favorite thing - too much time, too much stress, and then it doesn't even turn out right.
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Carrie, you are too cute!  Just remember that you are to learn a lesson from this experience.  Read the ingredients twice and then assemble and measure them.  Keep checking and re-checking to be sure everything is correct.  You can actually cook and do a great job of it.  Don’t let it stress you out so much.  Laughing is good!  Don’t ever give up!  Try, try again, and again and again until you get it right and be proud of the outcome.  I love you!!

Have a great day!   Aldine Allen