My adventures in the kitchen:
Last night I had the great idea of cooking a soup recipe from a vegetarian cookbook I'd found in a used book store (that should've been an indicator right there). Tomato Lentil Soup. I went and bought the ingredients, which were relatively inexpensive except for the spices. You'd think that being a weed and all, that Dill Weed would be cheap!
The problems began early on with "4 carrots chopped." Ok, define chopped. Are we talking discs? Diced? I hate vague directions. I really need them to be exact.
Then we dump it all in a pot and wait for 3 hours. That part was easy.
Now I had something that was essentially a bland lentil soup. The recipe gave a list of spices and said "Begin with small amounts and spice to taste." Now, garlic is almost always my flavoring of choice, but since I had gone out and bought all these spices I figured I should use them. Problem was, I was only familiar with half of them, and all of the ones I was unfamiliar with smelled awful. But I tried!
Up until this point nothing had gone horribly wrong. If I had let some of the water boil away, and continued experimenting with spices, I could have gotten a halfway decent lentil soup. But silly me, I kept following the directions.
Last ingredient: tomato paste.
This left me with something that resembles vampire vomit. It's kind of bland, which is fine, but the texture is just plain nasty. Dammit! SOUP FAIL!
Anybody want to come over for some soup?
The problems began early on with "4 carrots chopped." Ok, define chopped. Are we talking discs? Diced? I hate vague directions. I really need them to be exact.
Then we dump it all in a pot and wait for 3 hours. That part was easy.
Now I had something that was essentially a bland lentil soup. The recipe gave a list of spices and said "Begin with small amounts and spice to taste." Now, garlic is almost always my flavoring of choice, but since I had gone out and bought all these spices I figured I should use them. Problem was, I was only familiar with half of them, and all of the ones I was unfamiliar with smelled awful. But I tried!
Up until this point nothing had gone horribly wrong. If I had let some of the water boil away, and continued experimenting with spices, I could have gotten a halfway decent lentil soup. But silly me, I kept following the directions.
Last ingredient: tomato paste.
This left me with something that resembles vampire vomit. It's kind of bland, which is fine, but the texture is just plain nasty. Dammit! SOUP FAIL!
Anybody want to come over for some soup?