Sometimes I scare myself.
Does that ever happen to you?

Sometimes I will come up with an idea that I think is absolutely brilliant.

Like my little brilliant thought for today.  I was preparing a nice Chef’s Salad for lunch, expecting Ruth to drop by a touch early as she usually does.  I had boiled and peeled my eggs, and was just about to slice them with a small knife when I remembered an old kitchen gadget I acquired years ago.  It was an egg slicer, which cuts thin, even slices of egg using taut wires that easily slide through the cooked egg without making a mess or squishing the yolk.  It is very handy if you eat a lot of sliced boiled eggs.

Then I turned my attention to the meats and cheeses for the Chef’s Salad. I always hate to slice up the meats and cheeses. They never behave as neatly as I like, always moving around on the cutting board while I’m trying to create matchsticks (properly called julienne strips) of them.

As I was putting away the egg slicer (hand-washed and towel-dried, mind you), I spied my pizza cutter and said, “Why Not?”  So I took the pizza cutter in hand, and proceeded to slice through the meats and cheeses so effortlessly that it was astonishing.  The blade on my pizza cutter is about 3-1/2” in diameter, so in less than 30 seconds I had enough ham, turkey, Swiss and Cheddar to generously serve us both.  Brilliant!

It scares me to think what I might have done if I had applied myself. Not that having a cookbook software company is small potatoes. It is really brilliant, too. But who knows, I may have invented some kitchen gadget that was really useful.

Now, what did I do with that plastic radish garnisher?

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