Domestic goddess rating: 90% (tried hard even if it wasn’t a success) Five-a-day: 3/5 Food miles: about 40
On the menu: Muesli & juice (breakfast); cheese sandwich (lunch); sausages and kale & potato cakes (supper)
Well, you win some and you lose some.
I was all lined up for a seasonal cook-fest this afternoon, as for once I didn’t have to work late so could spare the time for a new recipe. Now, that’s where I went wrong.
You see, I spotted what looked like a great recipe for kale bubble and squeak (aka kale and potato cakes) on the Vegetarian Society’s website. Great, I thought. Perfect with sausages. And it’ll let me indulge my latest obsession with kale.
How wrong can you be. Just sometimes, you find a recipe that looks great but tastes just awful. Well, not awful, perhaps, but just wrong. In this case, too much mustard (it overpowered the other flavours) – I can see they were trying to pep it up a bit, as the rest of it was just plain bland. I was trying to think what else you could add to make it more interesting – onions, perhaps? bacon?
The idea was great – I love bubble and squeak, and the idea of including kale instead of the usual cabbage really caught my imagination. But this wasn’t the way to do it.
Back to the drawing board with this one, I think. I’ll try to post my experimental attempts to improve it so long as they’re not too much of a disaster!
Filed under: Cooking, Recipes, Seasonal eating, healthy eating | Tagged: bubble and squeak, failure, flavours, kale, potatoes, recipe failures, vegetarian society
