is paved with whatever I just produced for dinner.... YUCK. Now, let me say that I CAN cook. I don't do it often, but when I do cook, it is edible 99% of the time. Today? The 1%. I had around 700ish calories left for dinner so I decided to make myself some fried shrimp using panko breadcrumbs. I've made this before. Lots of times. I know how to do this. I SWEAR. I measured out my breadcrumbs and counted out my shrimp. I even had enough calories for some french fries so I carefully counted those out as well. Thankfully, the fries I was able to handle. I mean how difficult is it to put frozen fries in a toaster oven? The shrimp however was another story. Everything was going along as planned until the shrimp hit the pan. And then? Ew. Plastic burning and melting. WHY does my dinner smell like plastic burning and melting!? I panicked. I pulled the pan from the stove just waiting to see a plastic massacre.... but there was nothing. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooook. Maybe my hunger was making me smell things? So I continued cooking. And the smell continued as well. I tried to ignore it, and wait until dinner was ready to make any rash decisions about what this peculiar smell was from..... I took the food off the stove and took a bite...... and spit it out into the sink. It was HORRIBLE. The taste was worse than the smell. I don't know what in the world happened, but something went terribly TERRIBLY wrong. In my defense, I did not burn dinner, and I did not do anything differently. I'm beginning to think the culprit may have been oil. Can oil go bad?! If so, that's the answer. All I know is A) I will not be eating shrimp anytime soon and B) I should stick to cheez-its and teddy grahams!
24 days down...156 to go!
Yup, oil can go bad. Ew.
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