Darned Recipes. (standard:Inspirational stories, 807 words)
Author: Oscar A Rat	Added: Jul 21 2020	Views/Reads: 1202/809	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
It pays to go by the book.

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her tea, later throwing those pages away.  Sally figured she had no 
reason to go to all that work, if Joanne wasn't either. 

Finally, the morning of the judging day, Sally rose late and set a pot
of unpeeled tomatoes on a stove before getting dressed.  While in the 
shower, she smelled something burning.  She hadn't paid any attention 
to the part about stirring the damned things.  Well, the hell with it, 
she thought, opening a can of tomato sauce.  Later, she mixed in dried 
herbs and old spices, putting together her submission. 

Joanna stayed up late the night before, simmering peeled fresh tomatoes
down to a sauce, so that it could sit all night and blend flavors.  She 
did things right, using a secret cookbook she kept locked up in a 
drawer in her bedroom. 

Of course Joanna won. 

“Now why the hell didn't I win this year, Tammy?”  Sally complained. “I
put a lot of work into it.” 

“I guess Joanna's just born lucky,”  Tammy replied, turning away to
shake her head. 

The end.


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