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midnightsjane) wrote2011-11-09 08:20 pm
midnightsjane) wrote2011-11-09 08:20 pm
Culinary Disaster, I Haz One.
Every cook has one, sooner or later. Tonight was my turn. I decided to make a kugel (grated potato, onion and carrot mixed with egg and bread crumbs, topped with grated cheese and baked) for dinner, with an eye to having leftovers for my supper tomorrow. Mixed it all together, popped it in the oven and waited; it smelled good, looked okay, but when I cut it into squares and lifted it up to put on the plate it fell apart. No big, still edible..until I put a forkful into my mouth. OMG. When did I dump the entire salt shaker into the mix? It was SO oversalted I almost gagged. Tasted it again, just to make sure. Yup, culinary disaster indeed. The whole thing got tossed into the compost bucket. So much for dinner.
On to plan b: pasta with canned sauce. Not fancy, but pasta rarely disappoints me.
This isn't the absolutely worst thing I've ever cooked, but it comes damned close. Usually if a dish doesn't come out the way I envisioned I can somehow rescue it, but this was definitely a no way loser. :sigh:
I just hate throwing food out, it's such a waste. But sometimes, that's the only thing to do. One good reason that I never cook something for the first time when company is coming! I remember one time making a new recipe for friends, and being so embarrassed when the portions were really tiny, in spite of what the cook book had said. Best to test it on myself first.
Heh.
Other than the dinner mishap, it was a good day. Went out to the farm, cleaned a couple of stalls and the paddocks, said hello to my horses, scored some pumpkin tarts courtesy of our boarder Kim, thankyouverymuch.
Also managed to get up to the Library and find some new books to read, hurray!! Came away with the newest novel by Ann Perry in her William Monk series Acceptable Loss, a couple of books by Mercedes Lackey, Gwenhwyar and Trio of Sorcery and a new author for me, Sara Douglass with her new book The Devil's Diadem. As well, one of the Pern novels written by Anne McCaffrey and her son Todd, Dragon's Fire. It's so great to have books I haven't read and reread a hundred times! Hurray for the public library system.
Off to read now.
On to plan b: pasta with canned sauce. Not fancy, but pasta rarely disappoints me.
This isn't the absolutely worst thing I've ever cooked, but it comes damned close. Usually if a dish doesn't come out the way I envisioned I can somehow rescue it, but this was definitely a no way loser. :sigh:
I just hate throwing food out, it's such a waste. But sometimes, that's the only thing to do. One good reason that I never cook something for the first time when company is coming! I remember one time making a new recipe for friends, and being so embarrassed when the portions were really tiny, in spite of what the cook book had said. Best to test it on myself first.
Heh.
Other than the dinner mishap, it was a good day. Went out to the farm, cleaned a couple of stalls and the paddocks, said hello to my horses, scored some pumpkin tarts courtesy of our boarder Kim, thankyouverymuch.
Also managed to get up to the Library and find some new books to read, hurray!! Came away with the newest novel by Ann Perry in her William Monk series Acceptable Loss, a couple of books by Mercedes Lackey, Gwenhwyar and Trio of Sorcery and a new author for me, Sara Douglass with her new book The Devil's Diadem. As well, one of the Pern novels written by Anne McCaffrey and her son Todd, Dragon's Fire. It's so great to have books I haven't read and reread a hundred times! Hurray for the public library system.
Off to read now.
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Sometimes you just have to toss a disaster...and if your karma is pumpkin tarts, clearly you did the right thing.
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Pumpkin tarts were very tasty!