other weekend woes

Over the weekend I decided to make spanakopita to use up some old phylo dough and feta that we had in the fridge. I noticed we were out of butter so I went to our deep freezer where we store extra butter and I found out that the deep freezer stopped working. I had to do a mad scramble to salvage as much semi-frozen food as possible and refreeze things that could be refrozen and cook up things that couldn't. I ended up making rather large hamburgers for lunch and then making a very large batch of chile con carne for dinner (which is one of those dishes that always tasts better the day after you make it) and marinating about 4 pounds of chicken in a Tandoori Masala mix which I grilled up the following evening. I'm pretty much set for the week and I still have spanakopita to cook up.