Sep 24 2008
Upping the Rate
If we’d done the challenge in a steady state, evenly along the way, our rate of recipe progress would have been 3.65 recipes per week. However, we are no longer in steady state mode. We have a big backlog. Thus, much like paying off bad credit card debt, we have to do more than the minimum per week (4) otherwise we are making things worse. And really, unless we do five or six each week, we can’t even pretend to be making head way.
Last week I tried for four recipes, and managed three (the minestrone, the sausages and polenta and the breakfast bars). The ice cream didn’t make the cut (it was simply too hot in the kitchen on Sunday night to be whipping cream) but is in the freezer now….heavens knows when we’ll eat it.
This week, not counting the ice cream, we have done one recipe. Another is coming tomorrow. We’ve essentially finished the breakfasts chapter- everything not eaten has a date set- so that means evening meals and lunches. And a target of perhaps seven. Except that I’m out on Friday and we’re out on Saturday. Oooh eck.
And yet failure doesn’t feel like an option, nor, at the moment, an inevitability. I wonder how Mike is getting on with his side of the challenges?
