Happy Little Accidents
Happy Little Accidents
Bob Ross was famous for overlooking any mistakes as “happy little accidents”. We were fortunate enough to have a happy little accident while making a recipe and ended up creating a new favorite in our house.
We volunteered to feed some friends after they were blessed with another child, and as things go the world started to spin faster as that day approached and we ended up trying to throw something together with what we had on hand. Under normal circumstances I can whip up an alfredo sauce that will rival the finest Italian establishments and even Olive Garden, too!
A good alfredo sauce calls for fresh grated parmesan, about as much as your hands and arm can grate. But we didn’t have any fresh parmesan on hand. I had shredded parmesan in the bag, and I thought I could rinse the cellulose, the stuff that keeps it from sticking (and melting), and use it in a pinch. I was wrong! The cheese began to melt but clump together in globs, the flavor overall was good (so I thought), so I mixed in some pasta. I’m not exactly sure what was in that pasta, but the sauce lost all its constitution and flavor almost immediately. We could not serve this white, funny tasting water to anyone, so I ashamedly went to the pantry and pulled out a store-bought bottle of alfredo and mixed with the remaining pasta in another pot to serve.
Not wanting to end as a failure, I grabbed some heavy cream, lemon, a secret Cajun seasoning that I will not disclose, and a little corn starch and went to work trying to salvage the bland liquid that remained in the pot. When all the smoke settled, pun intended, we had a pot full of the most decadent Cajun lemon cream sauce I have ever experienced.
“The end of a thing is better than its beginning; The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.” Ecclesiastes 7:8
Beginning a spiritual journey with Christ is the most important beginning a person can ever make. It brings them from slaves of sin to freedom, from death to life, from chaos to peace. Even though we are given a wonderful new start, we’ll mess it up, mix in the wrong ingredients and we’ll think its ruined. But with a patient spirit we will find the end of what God has prepared for us even better than what we started with, but it won’t be by accident.
I love you
Jonathan