Disastrous Experiment With Black Pudding

[Tilly2]

earlier, I began to make a tomato sauce to eat with pasta for our evening meal. I softened the onions and was about to add the tinned tomatoes when I remembered I had a piece of black pudding in the fridge that needed eating.

I took the black pudding and cut it into bits, imagining that, when I added it to the softened onions, it would add a nice crunchy, tasty texture to the sauce. How wrong I was.

What I ended up with was a frying pan full soft onions and things that looked like blood clots! Undeterred, I added a tin of tomatoes and put a lid on and left it. Result......a disgusting looking, dark brown, bloody looking, thick, but lumpy sauce.

It went in the waste disposal and I started again. No black pudding this time and it looks, and hopefully tastes, a lot better.

Tell me your experimental disasters......

[factor-fiction]

It would have tasted lovely though. I love black pudding and just try to forget what it's made of

[BlackadderV]

Before you disposed of it, did you think to taste it? Appearances can be deceptive.

[-Talbot-]

Did anyone else check to see if this was in Body and soul first?

[Tilly2]

Talbot!

Yes, I did taste it, it was fine but it looked dreadful! It was brown and congealed and lumpy. 'twas very unappetising. I could have sold it to Quentin Tarantino to use in one of his films. Uggggh!

[BlackadderV]

Sorry, can't reconcile ' it was fine' with ' very unappetising'

[Tilly2]

It tasted fine but it looked unappetising. Will that do, BA? :-)

[Hopkirk]

You could have turned the lights down and served it by candle light.

[Old_Geezer]

It is mainly blood so hardly surprising.
Should've shared it with us here.

[BlackadderV]

No, Tilly, it won't do. I would far rather eat something which looked nasty and tasted great than vice versa.

[Tilly2]

I was expecting a long list of other people's disasters. Oh, well.

We have just finished eating an unadulterated tomato sauce and pasta and it was lovely.

I can't be the only one who has the occasional disaster, surely.

BA, that's all I can say. If it looks horrid, it is very off putting.

[Tilly2]

OG, I have shared it.

[BlackadderV]

The true skill is the ability to turn disaster into triumph.

[DTCwordfan]

You should see my baking, other than a meringue.

How can pastry be so difficult? For that reason, I will not make Cornish Pasties - my grandmother's were truly awful and sat there like a brick waiting to pass through the colon and comfortable they were not. Twyfords in Cornwall became Twofords, never mind the cracking of the system and the gas in there.

[Tilly2]

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.


and eat the result?

[Tilly2]

DTC, I can't make pastry either. I commiserate.

[DTCwordfan]

My fingers are too chunky?

[Tilly2]

I'm too heavy handed and attack it.

[Psybbo]

I can make a mean Victoria sponge BUT I must not eat any of it so there's no point!

[Tilly2]

I can eat a Victoria Sponge, sibs. Jam and cream filling please.

[DTCwordfan]

Bakewell cake please?