Flan

So I am operating now on  a six day work week which really cuts into my cooking time!
Any way class let out at about 3pm today so I stopped on my way home to explore this little shopping district on Ferret. (I was really looking for the farmers market but it wasn't there.) I ended up spending all the cash I had on me buying 2 skirts and a blouse for 17$ in the Junior League thrift store and then wandering into the little Honduran Grocery down the street. So I am in the Honduran Grocery where they will take my debit card but only if I am buying 10$ worth of stuff. Since I am out of cash and really want a cold drink I proceed to wander around picking out strange grocery things to supplement the weeks groceries (for the record Guava paste is really yummy.)  Anyway that is when I spot the box of flan mix. Sold
Now mix you are saying to yourself, how hard can that be? That should not even count!
Well for the record the first instruction on the box is to brown a half cup of sugar a task I have never done in my life followed by a step that involves boiling milk something I don't think I've ever done on purpose except as a cure for insomnia.
I am sitting now waiting for the flan to cool.  The sugar browning went okay except that my spatula has a hard candy coating now. I used a glass bowl as the mold which now that I am looking at the spatula I think may have been a bad call. Maybe something flexible would have been a better plan? Well worse comes to worse I can always just fill the bowl with water and let it sit, the sugar has to dissolve eventually... right? 

Epilogue 
So it totally fell apart coming out of the "mold" but it was super yummy and tasted just like the real deal so I'm pretty happy.The excess sugar however is still stuck to the bowl so we'll see how that goes.