Strokes of Genius

 Lacking inspiration, and with a time crunch looming, I wander around the house hoping that by some miracle, I will look at the stove and find something cooking itself. 

No luck.

I open the pantry and peer in at the recipe books. 

 I have quite a few to choose from, but since

not

one

of

them

rips a page from themselves

to give me tonight's menu,

I close the door again with a sigh.

 

What to do, what to do? 

I consider taking a page from my daughter's trick book.

  She looks up recipes

online,

using her phone.

Then she multi-tasks. 

She talks on the phone,

using a headphone,

while following the recipe she's found at

"Recipes R Us". 

Uploading a recipe on my phone may take more time than I have.  I need something

faster

 than 3 GB can offer me. 

My husband has just phoned to say he is on his way home. 

I have about twenty minutes

to roll out a meal. 

Then I remember the computer.  I can look up recipes with the best of them. 

I find a site that promises to make a recipe for me out of three ingredients that I have on hand.  I even have a choice of recipes.  I pick this one.  Mmmm...looks delicious.   

I think about printing it out. 

But I am in the living room, and it's such a

long

 

way

upstairs

to the printer. 

Then I have a stroke of genius. 

I take a picture of the screen with my phone. 

 Then I take the phone to the kitchen and press "Zoom"

so I can actually read the recipe and dinner practically makes itself.