Miss Adventurous

I love trying new things. By and large, I am an adventurous person in my life, and this certainly bleeds into my eating habits. I love trying new food, and I love cooking new food. I'm a passable cook, many of my dishes would even fall under the category of delicious and gourmet vegan fare. As with anything in life though, there are always mistakes to be made. I thought it might be an amusing venture into something a little different to share some food mishaps that haven fallen upon, and at my own hand.

• The oatmeal smoothie disaster of last night. Also known as the smoothie that inspired this blog. I've always enjoyed smoothies with wheat germ and the like, and I have my magic bullet and some frozen berries at home but no wheat germ, and not even any of 'the like.' I decide instant oatmeal is a reasonable facsimilie. I have since decided that it is not. It tasted like drinking really watery, cold oatmeal...but less appealing than what you are imagining.
• Using miso paste AND soy sauce to season my veggies. So. Much. Flavor. Too. Much.
• Who knew you could burn soup? Yes, yes you can. Just leave your hearty, bean based soup boiling while you take a shower. Yup.
• Then there's my ongoing battle with rice. How much is too much rice? How much is too much water? Why doesn't the flavor stick? Why isn't the rice soft? Is it possible that the rice is too soft? Oh crap, why is it black on the bottom? WHY WON'T SOMEONE JUST TAKE PITY AND BUY ME A FREAKIN' RICE COOKER?!
• My personal favorite, however, comes long before my vegan trials and errors. I call it the great brownie distaster of '07. My roommate, his then-stepsister and then-stepbrother and I decided we were going to make brownies, and no one else was home except for his brother who was a sleep. Somehow the lot of geniuses decided to put the mix on a pizza pan that was slotted on the bottom. The brownie mix of course melted and dripped all over the heating element on the bottom which caught fire. We turned the heat down, put the brownie mix in a proper receptacle, let the fire die down. We put the brownie mix back in and turned the heating element up, not realizing we never cleaned it off. Sure enough it started blazing again almost right away. No one panicked, but...no one really helped either. I took pictures. Someone was laughing, my roommate was looking for different food because clearly these brownies were a lost cause. Eventually his brother heard the commotion, wandered in, and jumped to action locating the fire extinguisher and saving us all from far worse trouble in record time. A few seconds later we realized that in saving us, my roommates brother had also doused the brownies in fire extinguisher smoke.

I would love to hear other people's cooking misadventures! Until next time, peace, passion, and love.