I played a bit of the Iron Chef alchemist the other night. I had some (hot) turkey sausages that were about to go bad so I decided I should cook them all up at once rather than risk spoiling some of them. So I browned them on a skillet. And then realized they were freaking huge! No way was I just going to eat them by themselves.
So I thought I’d make a sub sandwich out of it, and sauteed some mushrooms and then got out some shallots. But they were rotten. I didn’t realize that onions could go rotten, but they can! They can look downright gross is what they can do. Threw them away. And decided to just go whole hog and make it into some sort of stew. I cut the sausages up into slices.
I added black olives, capers, diced tomatoes, cashew nuts, apricots, enchilada sauce and topped it off with some lemon juice to add to the liquid base to give it something more to boil off. And I simmered it forever. Trying to form a make shift ragu.
To add to its quirkiness, I scooped it into a pita and ate it that way. It was good! But maybe that’s just because I made it myself. Maybe someone else would think it was gross. Hmmm… I shall find out when I have the leftovers what my second opinion is.
At least this was more successful then when I was a kid and decided to make bread by putting salt, flour, and water on a paper towel and putting it in the microwave. It rises into a giant air bubble and deflates. And it gets stuck to the paper towel. Oh, and it tastes nothing like bread. That’s the problem with that recipe.
Or the time Brent and I decided to make gummy berry juice. Remember the tv show? The gummy bears had a special juice that would make them bounce.. We figured if you melted gummy bears, that would make the juice. But it doesn’t. I just melts it into a foul smelling and tasting jelly. So there you go, two recipes for free of what NOT to make. Don’t ever say this blog isn’t educational.
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