Well as I am at home during the day nowadays, I occasionally cook dinner. A couple of weeks ago I made a spaghetti bolognese, but my wife decided it was lacking a little something, and I had not cooked it long enough. “Next time I’ll leave some instructions,” she said.<\/p>\n
So yesterday morning she decided I was cooking spaghetti bolognese for dinner. She left a recipe book open with a post-it note containing some additional instructions, before going to work. Strict instructions were also left that the bolognese sauce had to be simmered for TWO hours instead of my usual one-hour cooking.<\/p>\n
So at around 5 pm I had a look at the recipe book. Fairly straightforward list of ingredients, including carrots and celery (neither of which I used last time). On the post-it note she had written “chop into small pieces”. Other ingredients required were a cup of stock, and a cup of wine. Glancing around the kitchen, I noticed a wine bottle on the counter which had not been there the day before. Obviously that must be the wine I am to use in the recipe.<\/p>\n
So I cut the onions, carrots and celery, brown the mince, add the vegetables and stock, add some worcester sauce (recipe didn’t say so but I like it), tomato paste, paprika (again not in the recipe), and some salt and pepper. Now at this stage I normally add a tin of tomatoes as well, but double-checking the recipe for this revealed that there was no mention of it. Fair enough, no tomatoes. I take the cork out of the wine bottle and pour what is left of the contents into the saucepan. The recipe calls for the bolognese to be simmered uncovered for 1 1\/2 hours. I turn the heat down and leave it.<\/p>\n
Soon after 6 pm my wife gets home and goes into the kitchen. She comes out again and I know I’m in trouble. <\/p>\n
“Why didn’t you grate the carrots?” she asked.
“Well, your note said to chop them into small pieces.”
“I meant for you to grate them.”<\/p>\n
Ah.<\/p>\n
“And another thing, there isn’t much liquid left in the saucepan. Did you put any wine in it?”<\/p>\n
“Yes,” I reply. “That bottle you left on the counter.”<\/p>\n
An icy silence followed.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t leave any wine on the counter.”
“Yes you did, that bottle there.”(pointing)
“That was my mother’s home-made peach aperitif!”<\/p>\n
Oops.<\/p>\n
Oh well, the bolognese sauce was certainly tasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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