what an interesting smell you've discovered.
We had two bags of black-eyed peas in the freezer since we moved in. No one remembers who bought them, so they've just been sitting for eight months. I decided to do something with them tonight.
I had never made black-eyed peas, but from what I could figure, it looks like you cook them like you would beans. No problem. Me and beans are good buddies. I went looking for a recipe that dealt with black-eyed peas, but everything I found seemed to involve ham in some fashion. Not going to work. However, I did find a recipe for dal, which is a kind of Indian dish that you eat on top of rice. I figured I could just swap lentils for black-eyed peas, and proceed on my merry way and wow did I ever figure wrong.
After I I tossed everything in the big pot, I set it to simmer for a while, then a few minutes later-- whoa. There was a strange garbage-y smell emanating from the kitchen. I don't know whether it was the black-eyed peas or the tumeric, but something was definitely not right. I soldiered on thinking maybe it would get better once it cooked for a while, but sadly, no.
The finished dish looks like a sort of yellow-green vomit. Smells like Satan's burning garbage. Weirdly.. it tastes ok. Not awful. Not great. Certainly nowhere near the crack-a-roni and cheese that I made last week.
I don't usually fuck up a dish beyond all hope of saving it, so I think this is a first, ehe. I'll have to see if thefreak , the scourge of the buffet line and plunderer of picnics, can face off with it.
epilogue: the epic stench has abated a little now that the dal isn't boiling, but it still smells like curried fart.
I had never made black-eyed peas, but from what I could figure, it looks like you cook them like you would beans. No problem. Me and beans are good buddies. I went looking for a recipe that dealt with black-eyed peas, but everything I found seemed to involve ham in some fashion. Not going to work. However, I did find a recipe for dal, which is a kind of Indian dish that you eat on top of rice. I figured I could just swap lentils for black-eyed peas, and proceed on my merry way and wow did I ever figure wrong.
After I I tossed everything in the big pot, I set it to simmer for a while, then a few minutes later-- whoa. There was a strange garbage-y smell emanating from the kitchen. I don't know whether it was the black-eyed peas or the tumeric, but something was definitely not right. I soldiered on thinking maybe it would get better once it cooked for a while, but sadly, no.
The finished dish looks like a sort of yellow-green vomit. Smells like Satan's burning garbage. Weirdly.. it tastes ok. Not awful. Not great. Certainly nowhere near the crack-a-roni and cheese that I made last week.
I don't usually fuck up a dish beyond all hope of saving it, so I think this is a first, ehe. I'll have to see if thefreak , the scourge of the buffet line and plunderer of picnics, can face off with it.
epilogue: the epic stench has abated a little now that the dal isn't boiling, but it still smells like curried fart.