Kitchen Garden Forum

Having just spent the best part of an hour chopping veggies into very small chunks for a spicy tomato and lentil soup, which I have adapted and made into a very filling lunchtime soup. I added my spices and then having opened a new jar of Harrissa Paste I went to look for a black marker pen to put the date opened on the jar. Only it wasnt Harrissa Paste it was Red Thai Curry Paste So I dont know how it will come out, I used one very large teaspoon, but it also has cumin powder and paprika Hmmmm dont think I will tell the hubby, just wait for his comments.. Both jars are Barts and both have the same label and I did not look I just opened it and spooned it in. Serves me right Now I am off to make leek, potato and onion soup. With Harrissa maybe. I was watching Saturday Kitchen whilst making it so I have no excuse.....

Dear Catherine, now, will you be able to keep a straight face while your husband takes that first mouthful!

Dear OH. He has just come in and I have fed him a spoonful of the soup, he says its the best I have ever made. Ever innocent. I could hardly keep my face straight so I owned up. But he still says its the best.

Hi Catherine,
I take it that you have read Snooky's latest joke about the 'Tazer Gun'!
Your soup is very likely to have a similar effect!
JB.

No JohnBoy I have not read that one yet. I have just had a taste of the said soup and it tastes quite nice, though quite hot. Never mind it is edible.

Catherine Glad your faux pax turned out alright in the end. Yes, it always pays to read the label - if there is one! Reminds me of the time I pulled out a bag of frozen chicken stock from the freezer to make some Minestrone Soup. If there had ever been a label stuck on it, it had fallen off at some point and what I ended up chucking into the saucepan was a bag of gooseberry purree. There's no way I could have pulled a fast one trying to serve that up.

Primrose wrote: what I ended up chucking into the saucepan was a bag of gooseberry purree. There's no way I could have pulled a fast one trying to serve that up.

It's not impossible

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Dear All,
I once put a tablespoon of ground mace into a stew instead of chilli powder. Truly a waste of food and 2 1/2 hours.
Regards Sally Wright.

Not very long ago I put what I thought was Paprika 1 heaped teaspoonful into a recipe and it turned out that I had managed to grab the KN Pepper instead.
JB.

Not food, this time, but the same principle:
In a sleepy haze one morning I grabbed what I thought was hairspray, and only when I saw my hair turning grey in the mirror did I realise I was using deodorant!

Slightly different but same theme.
I once spent a frantic couple of hours, turning the house upside-down, in search of my purse. It wasn't in my (very) large handbag, where it should have been. I was just resigning myself to the fact that I had lost it and decided on a nice cuppa. There, in the fridge, was my purse.

The block of cheese was in my handbag.....

Cheers.

Hi Caz,
Same meat different gravy! I once treated my piles with toothpaste!
JB.

Johnboy wrote:Hi Caz,
Same meat different gravy! I once treated my piles with toothpaste!
JB.

Minty fresh farts, New pants please.

And I bet they were nice and gleaming white after that!

Johnboy wrote:Hi Caz,
Same meat different gravy! I once treated my piles with toothpaste!
JB.

I just have to ask this, Johnboy - was that before or after you'd cleaned your teeth with the other tube?