My Favorite Mantra

"Adapt and overcome"  has long been my mantra.  I think it stems from the years spent as an Air Force brat.  So it is no wonder when things start to go wrong or I'm not as equipped to handle cooking recipes I never have as I thought I was, that I begin repeating this mantra over and over in the hopes that I will come up with some great solution.  I've been prepping as much as possible for Sam's big family birthday lunch/dinner over the past couple of days.  We are eating at 1:30 and we will be at church until noon, which means I have to start slow cooking the meat at 8:00 a.m.  Anyway who knows me well knows that I am not a morning person, I repeat I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON!  So the idea of having to cook at 8:00 frightens me.  I am trying to do as much ahead of time as possible and the menu was specifically designed for this purpose.  Everything will be ready to go into the oven and hopefully the only prep I will have to do is set the table, which I may even do tonight if I think about later.  Back to the problem at hand.  I have never really made cole slaw before.  I've bought shredded cabbage and cole slaw dressing and mixed them together before, but I thought I would attempt to make my mom's cole slaw.  She is visiting my sister right now and thank goodness for cell phones, because I've already called her this morning to see how she shreds her cabbage.  After talking to her I felt confident that I would be able to do this task no problem.  Unfortunately when I went into my cabinets and got out my food processor I found that I was missing some very key parts of it.  Not only was I missing key parts, but if I had said parts, it still wouldn't have worked.  I guess it's time to get a new food processor.  Don't I wish!  The only attachment I had was a small multipurpose blade.  Not sure how it would work I put a small amount of cabbage in the processor and it wasn't exactly what I wanted but it worked.  Thinking I would speed things up I emptied out and put a larger amount in.  Well the processor really didn't like this.  It took out it's frustration on my poor cabbage and cabbage mush was born.  I'll just use it as a thickener I think and pour into into the bowl.  Lesson learned I begin cutting the cabbage into smaller chunks and putting a small amount into the processor.  Much better.  I really wish I had taken pictures during this process, oh well, next time.  It only took me an hour to make the cole slaw, I probably could have chopped the cabbage faster.  Next time I'm just going to buy the shredded cabbage at the store, or maybe I will get a new food processor.  We'll see.