Thursday, May 8, 2008

we've created a monster

Last night during dinner, I let E have some chocolate milk. Truth be told, it was bribe to get her to actually *drink* her milk since she is on some sort of milk strike at home. When A saw that she began grunting and madly gesturing, I figured she wanted some, too. So I scooped up her sippy, added a little syrup and announced that dessert was served.

A couldn't get enough of it. She slurped every last drop in her cup and looked at me with wanting eyes and said, "Muh peese, muh muh muh PEEESE!" Luckily we were able to distract her with promises of NHT upstairs.

But...this morning, we went downstairs to get her morning sippy of milk and turn on the crockpot. I handed her her sippy cup, she looked at me and said,
"No!"
"What do you mean, no? It's your sippy...of milk." I told her.
"Chalk-a-ut," she responded.
Luckily, she seemed to accept my explanation that we don't have chocolate milk all the time, only for dessert. But I'm forsee a tantrum about this issue very soon in my future.

Side Note:
Sweet Pea Chef (or any other crockpotters "in the know")...I'm making your Carolina Pulled Pork BBQ with a Boston Butt (heh). when I went to turn on the crockpot at 7 this morning, I neglected to actually plug it in. Luckily I figured out my mistake at 8:30 before leaving for work. My two questions are:
  1. After sitting out on the counter for an hour and a half not cooking, is this Butt still safe to eat?
  2. We try to eat at 6 or so...which puts us at 9 1/2 hours on LOW. Should I jack up the temp to HIGH when I walk in the door to get it to cook more, or do you think it'd be fine? It's a small Butt (5 pounds) if that makes a difference.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your butt is fine (heh-heh) I don't think leaving it out for 1.5 hrs. on a relatively cool morning is going to give you problems. I also think 9.5 hours is fine to cook. I just cooked a 6+ lb one the other day for @ 9 hours and it was soooo good.

Love,
Zams

Sweet Pea Chef said...

I think your butt is just great! :)

And the timing should be good too.

Haven't had much email/blog time today, both boys are sick, so sorry it took so long to respond.

Happy BBQ eating tonight!s

Anonymous said...

ahhhh.

I just had this happen to me in the form of GUMMY BEARS.

Toddler Tornado is on a hunger strike of sorts until she gets more.

this mama? she can wait out a 2 year old :)

M.

Steel Magnolia said...

I hear ya on that one...everytime we give the boys a treat, they want it all the time. Hope your "butt" was good-he!he!