Monday, November 06, 2006

Kitchen Drama

I am so sad tonight.

I burnt my rice pudding.

You feel my pain, I know. I made the pudding, put it in the oven, settled in to watch the X Factor reruns (and the McBoring Brothers are still in. How? Who is actually voting for them?). And when I went to get it out, the skin was blackened and the whole kitchen stank of ‘burnt’. That horrible acrid smell that lingers and lingers… I carefully levered off the crisp skin and found a stuck and dry pudding underneath. The top and middle were edible, but the bottom and sides are going to need serious elbow grease tomorrow to scrape them off, after soaking overnight. Sigh. Anyway, I managed to rescue a bowlful, and it was ok, but not the creamy silky sticky delight I was hoping for.

In short, the whole episode damn near broke my heart.

4 comments:

Tall Medstudent said...

You should add some baking soda into your soak. It helps with burnt-on stuff like that... a bit.

Marysienka said...

I feel your pain. I'm the kitchen drama queen... (I swear it's my oven, it has up's and down's!)
perhaps you'll be luckier next time...

Tall Medstudent said...

Wow, that burnt rice pudding really got you down! Two weeks and no post!

Marysienka said...

Really, don't take it personal, that was just rice pudding!