New Header

Image Map

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Complete Disaster

Normally, I'm a good cook. Sometimes I'm even a great cook. Last night, however, the wheels came completely off in the kitchen.

We have an abundance of sweet potatoes from our coop. I thought it might be nice to have some homemade baked sweet potato fries. Never having made them before, I carefully followed the directions in a recipe I found on Allrecipes.com. Result? Some mushy, some burnt. All with not-great flavor. Disaster.

Our main dish was a muffuletta sandwich. These tasty sandwiches feature toasted bread, meat (turkey, in our case), olive mix, cheese and veggies. I love them. But last night the result not good. The bread was so thick and tough that we had to eat them as open face sandwiches. Disaster.

I hoped to redeem the meal with a good dessert - fresh sliced peaches topped with Bird's custard. Despite a sugar dusting and time to ripen, the peaches were still a little bitter. And because it was just one of those nights, the custard refused to thicken. ARGH. Disaster.

I'm so glad my husband is such a good sport because he ate everything without complaint. Fortunately, these complete cooking disasters usually only happen once every few years or so.

5 comments:

  1. I have had more than one of those culinary train wrecks myself. It's frustrating, and expensive - we have a binding pact that if a meal is a complete disaster, we go out for dinner. *grin* Luckily, those meals are few and far between here, as well.

    If you need a laugh sometime, just ask John sometime about the mushy fish. It was horrible.

    ReplyDelete
  2. You are lucky you don't have kids. Jer is the same way, will eat it without a word (or maybe a simple - your rice is a tad undercooked), but will wait until I complain about how terrible it was and I felt like a failure. My kids on the other hand ... well they give me a WONDERFUL critique that would impress even Simon!

    ReplyDelete
  3. It helps knowing I'm not the only one!

    ReplyDelete
  4. I love muffuletta sandwiches - and after reading your post I went out and bought the ingredients. Sorry for your "disaster" but thanks for the inspiration!

    ReplyDelete
  5. I'm so glad it gave you a delicious dinner inspiration. Dinner that evening was just not to be.

    ReplyDelete