And, How Was Your Day?

Dastardly disappointing, going to the cupboard finding the cupboard is bare.  Well, it might as well be, if what you need to fix a dish you’re craving is not there!  Stella wanted Tuna Noodle Salad. She had several cans of tuna.          She had a large jar of mayonnaise.  She had oodles of dry noodles.  She put the water on to boil.  Happily she proceeded to make tuna-noodle salad.  As usual, not certain of all the ingredients necessary for her tuna noodle salad, once the water began to boil, Stella gave her brain a task.  “Think!” she mused.   “Let’s see”, responded her silently churning mind, “what else do you need for a tasty high protein salad to comfort your next feeding frenzy?”  Sweet pickle relish?  Got it, on the pantry shelf.  Apple cider vinegar?  Saw it, on another shelf wedged in a storage basket with other bottles of vinegar - distilled white, balsamic, rice vinegar and red wine vinegar.  

            Hmmm, what about eggs?  In the refrigerator, a large egg carton against the wall, third rack, so for sure got eggs!  Got everything!          

           When the noodles were cooked, not quite enough, from the kitchen sink Stella comfortably filled a glass saucepan with water and set the pot of water on the burner, flame turned low to begin hard boiling the eggs. 

          She nonchalantly pulled the egg box from the fridge.  Lifting the lid, she delightfully discovered eleven lovely white eggs tucked into their individual nests.  She needed two for her salad.  That was all.  

          Not seeing a crack on a single one of the picture perfect eggs, Stella plucked one from the carton to drop into the still cool water.   Letting it gingerly slip from her fingers, she reached for the second lucky egg…but wait…the first one was bobbing in the water.  Oops!  It was floating, like a cork!   Out it came.  In went a new ‘first’ egg.  It bobbed too!  One after another, nine more times, each egg floated, proving it had met its expiration date – all were rotten.

Rotten eggs ruined Stella’s day.     Happy New Year