I hate to waste food. So whenever I experiment with food and it fails, it really upsets me because:
1. I made use of high quality ingredients and made it taste bad.
2. I feel like a failure.
3. I don't want to eat the leftovers, and may end up throwing them out.
But, you really do have to make a few mistakes to eventually make tasty, original meals. It is bound to happen, and as long as you learn, it was all worthwhile.
Today at lunch, i had this idea of a roasted garlic and potato soup. mmmm..sounds good doesn't it? We have this amazing organic garlic, so I roasted 2 heads, and 3 white potatoes. How could anything go wrong?
The roasting went fine. The garlic was actually phenomenal. They carmelized in the oven, turned light brown and mushy, it was perfect. I think I would only buy organic garlic now for this very reason!
So I threw everything in the blender - garlic, potatoes and some soymilk to thin it out....so I'm blending, blending, blending. Then I poured it into a pot to slowly re heat. It was nice and smooth, but it was ..... slimy...gooey....snotty! WHAT HAPPENED! the texture was horrible. I didn't know what to do. I tried adding more water...that helped a little, but I didn't want to overdo it. I searched on the Internet for solutions, but couldn't find anything. There was no way I was going to serve this to anyone.
So then I thought, maybe I could make a casserole out of it. Broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, turnips, and some crumbled bread on top to sop up the potato soup and crisp. So that's what I did. It made the potato goop edible, but it definitely was nowhere near great, which is why I refuse to show you the end result.
Anyways, we finally had lunch at 2:30pm, and it so was not satisfying. Oh well. One of those days. I am still trying to accept this whole experience. I have made potato leek soup in the past and it never went all gooey, I don't get it? Anybody out there know?
I am thinking that it has to do with the type of potato I used - standard white. Maybe I should have used russet? I don't really know.
If you ever need snot or slime for a Hallowe'en costume, let me know. I'm an expert at snot making now.
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Funny to read this. Today Peter was about to make a potato/parsnip mash by putting it in the food processor and I said no! stop! it will get goopy like glue. Potato must be mashed with a metal masher or glue you will have as you sadly witnessed today. I am not sure what the reason behind this is. But, I know this is the way my grandma used to make potato mash, and she's the one from whom I learned to cook, so that is how it must be done! So get yourself a metal masher with long horizontal slots, mashers with small holes (strainer-like) or made of plastic just don't work. Or mash with a fork or by hand.
Love the blog!
Hi Reena, Carla is right! You have to use a smasher, you can see a picture of one at http://www.hoedoe.nl/eten-drinken/basiskeuken/aardappelen/hoe-maak-ik-aardappelpuree ( a Dutch website, since I am Tilly's Dutch niece Hetty ;-) )My grandmother, mother and I always use one like this!
New idea for mash that is yucky: turn it into a bread! Yes! I recently tried and failed miserably at making pumpkin soup from the guts of our halloween pumpkins. I thought onion, potato, pumpkin, and mash! then soup. Well, not really. There I had 5 cups (!) of yucky mash and I too hate to waste food. I tweaked a sweet pumpkin loaf recipe into savoury pumpkin potato loaf and yumsters! Basically, omit sugar, increase puree, add more savoury spices, increase salt and voila!
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