Kitchen Sink Drama

Dagnabbit. I was trying to cook a pasta meal over the weekend and our kitchen faucet thought it the appropriate time to seize up and keel over. What a time, too. It was a capellini-based dish, so timing was absolutely critical if I didn’t want ultra-soggy pasta. I turned off the heat half a minute before the recommended cooking time and planned on running the pasta under cold water as soon as it left the pan. Confident with my plan of action, I poured the pasta pan’s contents into a colander that was, by then, strategically placed on the sink. Soon as I twisted the tap, the whole dang faucet assembly came off and water was soon everywhere but on the pasta. We had McDonald’s take-away that evening.