Soup…?
I decided to make minestrone soup, since I’ve been cooking just about every day for the past week or so. I gathered all of the materials last night and put all the dry ingredients together (so that I could just dump them into a crock pot before I left for work). Great Northern white beans? Check. Zucchini, carrots, and onion? Check. Minced garlic and basil? Check. Pepe pasta? Check. Oh, wait a second! That last one probably shouldn’t sit in the crock pot all day! Well, it’d be too hard to fish them out, so let’s just see what happens.
That is what happens. Minestrone porridge. I seriously could have eaten this with a fork.
I actually did manage to eat an entire bowl of this, but I couldn’t let Landon and Janelle be subjected to that. It’s now sitting at the bottom of our trash can in our garage. And of course this happens right after the garbage truck has made its weekly pick-up. We’re going to be having a rather unpleasant-smelling garage in a few days here.
November 14th, 2008 at 11:30 am
I am always so happy to read when things like this happen to other people! I one time did the same thing with potatoes in a crock pot soup and got a 7 inch latke out of it. And one other time with ditalinni pasta — same thing, except I guess it was more of a poor-man’s frittata. I’m a slow learner. Unlike you, however, when it tasted edible, I just kept it — and probably threw it out a week later when the trash came. You know, that crockpot had to slave all day… and I hate to waste electricity!
November 14th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Glad to hear I’m not the only one! I once made salmon patties so bad even the cat wouldn’t touch them.