An experiment in cooking

[auntiemeesh]

I tried curried chickpeas and vegetables tonight. It's a work in progress, I'd say. Not bad, exactly, but not nearly as yummy as it should be. I'll have to try again in a few weeks. One of these days I'm going to stumble across a recipe that actually turns out well.

Comments

[westwindschild.livejournal.com]

Cooking is one of those "mad scientist" things - sometimes you end up with a gourmet delight but more often it is a Frankenstein result - not exactly what you expected and maybe a bit hard to swallow! The important thing is to keep trying. Edison discovered 1,000 ways NOT to make a light bulb before one lit up, right?

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I have luckily had very few experiments go so awry that they weren't edible. They usually just end up being a bit too bland and boring.

[wbkbb.livejournal.com]

I always forget to write down my notes on how the dish turned out, and I repeat the same old mistakes over again. I hope your next attempt is more successful.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Two main problems with this dish were that I was using old veg. oil that seems to have gone a bit nasty, and I forgot to buy one of the flavoring-type ingredients. Both of those are pretty easy to avoid next time, hopefully, lol.

[antbee362.livejournal.com]

Hmm! I hope the cooking progresses. I make some things that aren't quite as yummy as I would hope also. Sometimes I make them repeatedly because I have not idea how to make it better.
My idea of cooking is to take a recipe or a number of similar ones and use what ingredients I have on hand. I may make something pretty much according to instructions the first time but from then on I seldom do. Of course cakes, cookies etc are pretty much according to the recipe but main dishes I tend to play around with.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I once dated a guy who very seriously believed that you could never ever deviate even the slightest from the written recipe. Half the time I'm not even working from a recipe, just throwing random stuff in a pot and hoping it works. There's probably some middle ground in there that works best.

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

The thing about having to eat every day is that it gives us plenty of opportunity to keep experimenting with food prep!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Hm, I haven't been able to decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing.