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Back Burner

 We’ve all been there, we’ve been busy cooking a multi-course meal trying to impress friends, family, maybe a stranger or two. We’ve invited too many people, selected an over ambitious multi-course meal, didn’t plan out the ingredients list well, been too worried about decor or table settings and just didn’t think it all through.  Next thing we know, we’ve got the spatula in too many pots, things are getting chaotic and splattering out of pans onto walls, underneath upper cabinets and we’ve become a bit overwhelmed.  The kitchen is filling with steam and a little smoke.  Frantically, we place the pot, the one filled with the most expensive ingredients but the recipe that’s most familiar, on the back burner, on low. We’ll get back to it in a bit.  This will buy some time and space for all the other recipes perceived as needing more attention since they are new and more of a challenge, maybe even more exciting and will certainly garner more attention than the good-ole standby.   Now br