Serendipity

Making tomato sauce:

1. Cut up tomatoes and onions.
2. Roast for 40 minutes or so in a 400˚ oven.
3. Place in Dutch oven on stovetop with salt, pepper, garlic, basil, etc.
4. Cook on low heat for 45 minutes.
5. Blend with immersion blender until almost smooth.
6. Stir and leave heat on low.
7. Fix and eat supper, play with dog, practice music, watch TV, check emails, etc.
8. Jump up 3 hours after step 6 and say, “Oh shit, the tomato sauce!!”
9. Dash into kitchen, turn off burner, stir and taste.
10. Say to no one in particular, “Damn, that’s pretty good.”