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......

[seekeerz]

Oh mr s does, Tilly ....or so he says ...getting him to eat chicken has been a real battlefield since day 1. He claims to have been fed too much as a child or some such rubbish ...I just can't find out in which lifetime that was !!

[shoota]

I burned some toast once.

[Sam1960]

crunchy croutons shoota

[Tilly2]

Seeks, how can you have too much chicken? Chicken is lovely. When I was a child, chicken was an expensive treat.

[Tilly2]

I like burnt toast, shoota.

[DTCwordfan]

2 pheasant sitting in my freezer ready to be cooked and eaten, a nice change to chicken!

[ummmm]

I'm not keen on chicken.

[shoota]

I can remember saying to my mother something along the lines of 'Oh no not beef again, can't we have a chicken?'

Nowadays you have to live on burnt toast for three weeks before you can afford beef.

[seekeerz]

Oh I love chicken Tilly, it was a real treat when I was growing up, now it's hard finding one that tastes ok, but I still can't convince himself that they're not the devils food !!

[Tilly2]

Seeks, I commiserate with you, too. Chicken is so versatile, unlike black pudding!

[Tilly2]

Beef is now a very rare treat, shoota. We seem to have a lot of pork. That's a bit more reasonable.

[Mamyalynne]

Kitchen disaster with me is bread - my loaves when painted and decorated make perfect doorstops.

[Tilly2]

Not a baker then, Mamya? Nor me.

Anyway, time for bed. Goodnight all and thanks for the company. x

[shoota]

Pork is the new beef.

[seekeerz]

Yes, black pudding certainly has its limitations ....

[ummmm]

I cooked a beef joint the other night. Dished up dinner, double wrapped the joint and left on the side because it was still warm. Walked back into the kitchen after dinner to the cat eating it.

[seekeerz]

Oh yeah ummmm, been there done that got the scratches to prove it !!

[shoota]

Cool cats do like joints....

[humbersloop]

I'd have eaten it Tills