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November 4, 2007
Overambitious chef
I got cocky.
Everything I cooked this year has been delicious and my head got a little too big. I decided to make empanadas, and I didn't think I needed a recipe.
I made a nice ground beef filling with onion and roasted red peppers and green chilies and garlic and cumin. When I put the filling in the dough, the first four somehow completely disintegrated before I even dropped them into the oil. The fifth one held together until I pulled it out of the fryer and placed it on the cooling rack, where it exploded violently. I made three more, each one exploding slightly less than the one before. Then I stopped because I was frightened.
They tasted disgusting. Saturated with oil and improper crust to filling ratio. More like oil pies. I covered them with salsa to disguise the flavor and forced myself to eat them anyway so not to waste food, then filled up on ice cream for dessert.
Tomorrow I'll buy tortillas and make burritos with the leftover filling. I think that's more my speed. Now I know that anything involving dough or deep frying is not part of my repertoire. Plus I was having panic attacks the whole time thinking the oil would spontaneously burst into flames and shoot across my kitchen, incinerating everything in its path.
Posted by K
Comments
That is hilarious. Did you have to use baking soda? And you ate it? Yuck. I made chocolate molten cakes yesterday. Delicious. Dinner was pizza so I thought to make a kick ass dessert with ice cream. I will send you that recipe if you wanna try. Email, ok? What's for dinner tonight?
Posted on November 6, 2007 6:37 PM