I probably should have tried the yellow curry sauce I found at Trader Joe's before posting about it. :-) It turned out yummy, but it was no replacement for the wonderful yellow curry we occasionally order out. That's how good the stuff we order out is.
Speaking of food failures, last night's chicken noodle soup (or "bone soup" if you're my mom!) failed somewhat. I put the carrots and celery in an hour or two before the noodles and thought I could leave it in the crock pot while we were at rehearsal, but when we got home, the noodles were soggier than soggy and the carrots and celery were still crunchy. Ah.
Last week, I tried to make granola using a recipe from one of my mom's Moosewood Cookbooks. It was called "dry roast granola" and sounded so easy and healthy! Well, it was easy, and it was probably healthy, but I was hoping for crunchy chunks of granola! The recipe said to roast it in a skillet with no oil whatsoever, and when it was done, it just seemed like toasted oats, what germ, etc. mixed together.
And this is all to say nothing of the black beans I tried to make for my father-in-law when he was visiting. That story is still to painful to tell . . . ;-)
So today, at my mom's suggestion, I tried a granola recipe from More with Less with much greater success. :-)
It is through the failures that we learn. This week I have had many failures in the kitchen. It is the cook who does not throw in the towel who achieves greatness in the kitchen. In a children's book entitled, The Glorious Flight, Mr. Louis Bleroit builds a plane to fly over the English Channel. It was not his first plane that was a success, it was his 11th!
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