Disastrous Experiment With Black Pudding

[Tilly2]

earlier, I began to make a tomato sauce to eat with pasta for our evening meal. I softened the onions and was about to add the tinned tomatoes when I remembered I had a piece of black pudding in the fridge that needed eating.

I took the black pudding and cut it into bits, imagining that, when I added it to the softened onions, it would add a nice crunchy, tasty texture to the sauce. How wrong I was.

What I ended up with was a frying pan full soft onions and things that looked like blood clots! Undeterred, I added a tin of tomatoes and put a lid on and left it. Result......a disgusting looking, dark brown, bloody looking, thick, but lumpy sauce.

It went in the waste disposal and I started again. No black pudding this time and it looks, and hopefully tastes, a lot better.

Tell me your experimental disasters......

[Tilly2]

Bakewell...almonds! Uggh!

[Tilly2]

....and why, all of a sudden, can you not eat black pudding raw? There were specific instructions on the packaging that the product should not be eaten raw. I love raw black pudding. Much better than a bloody, amorphous mass of cooked!

[factor-fiction]

>all of a sudden?
Was there a time then when it was okay to eat it raw? Isn't it like eating raw sausages?

[ummmm]

No FF. It's already cooked otherwise it would be runny.

[grasscarp]

you just made me laugh so much. thank you Tilly

[sherrardk]

Experimental disaster - making chocolate bowls using balloons (exploding rubber covered in molten chocolate is dangerous).

[Tilly2]

You are welcome, grassy.

Come on, folks! I can't be the only person who has ever tried something which went horribly wrong.

[Tilly2]

Ah, Sherr. I remember you doing that. Not done it since, have you?

[sherrardk]

Haven't done it since Tilly, but fancy finding out the proper way to do - on the plus side, my kitchen got a damn good clean.

[factor-fiction]

Tilly- I bet if you'd mixed it in well with the pasta and then covered it all in melted grated cheese it would have looked good and tasted wonderful

[Tilly2]

I should have dry fried the black pudding first and got it nice and crisy. Then I should have put the onions in. I now know what I should have done but you learn by your mistakes.

Factor, even then, I would have been unable to eat it. Mr T would have wolfed it down though.

Sherr, there must be a way....keep trying.

[BlackadderV]

You can't have a raw black pudding, else you'd end up with a bucket of pigs' blood laden with pork fat. Once cooked it may be eaten hot or cold. Go to any decent pub on Tyneside on Sunday morning and you will find trays of cold black pudding, gratis. they don't last long, so be there early.

[Tilly2]

I have always eaten black pudding 'raw'. Just bought a lump and sliced and eaten it. However on the last, plastic covered pack I bought, it definitely said that it must not be eaten raw. I was confused.

[ummmm]

That is confusing as it's actually cooked. If it wasn't cooked you'd need to eat it with a spoon. Yuk...

[Tilly2]

Rightho, ummmm. The next black pudding I eat will be eaten cold rather than fried and warm. Normal service then.

[seekeerz]

One of my first attempts at cooking after marriage ... Chinese stir fry ...substituted rabbit for chicken and added sliced ginger instead of powered...surprised there wasn't a very divorce !!

[Tilly2]

seekeerz, who knows the difference between chicken and rabbit?

[Sam1960]

Ever tried Black Pudding pakora Tilly ?
I never knew there was such a thing !!
Looks and sounds tasty to me
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/30/stornoway-black-pudding-recipes

[Tilly2]

Those pakoras look good, Sam. Thanks.

Methyl, nothing wrong with a Spanish omelette, whatever the shape.