Remember Amelia Bedelia?

Does anyone ever remember reading the books, Amelia Bedelia? She is the character that if you say, "Go pitch a tent," she would literally throw the tent as if she was pitching the tent at a baseball game. Well, sometimes I feel like Amelia when I cook. For example, a few years ago I was brownies to give to some guy (I swear this was the first and last time I baked anything for a guy)and for good reason too...I forgot to add the eggs. That was a tad embarrassing, but come on we have all forgotten ingredients at some point in our lives right? Well, I wish my ditzyness in the kitchen ended there. When Ty and I were first married, I was using a recipe that asked for one clove of garlic. For me, I have never used fresh garlic before, I only remember seeing the Costco size minced garlic jar in my house growing up so I never caught on the idea of fresh garlic. So, I thought a clove of garlic was the WHOLE bulb of garlic and so I started chopping away and mincing my little heart out thinking I was being so smart and so domesticated. That is until Ty walked into the house and yelled, "Oh garlic!" That is when I figured a clove of garlic does not mean the whole entire thing. Needless to say, our house spelled nice and garlic-y for a really loooooong time! Than the other day I was cooking this new recipe that asked for a half a cup of chopped onions. Well, there is nothing I hate more than cutting onions and so I decided to resort to canned dehydrated onions from the Cannery. What I didn't know is that a half cup of chopped onions does not equal a half cup of dehydrated onions. Poor Ty, as soon as we took a bite of the rice mixture I knew, there was waaaaaay too much onion in there.
So the moral of the story...don't forget to add the eggs when baking, a clove of garlic is the slice, not the bulb and one cup of dehydrated onions is not the equivalent of an actual cup of chopped onions. I am glad that I discovered this last one now instead of when we are desperately needing to eat from our food storage and I messed up our ration of food for that day by adding too much onion! Whew, that could've been bad!