A Bachelor's Adventure in Cooking

[Ephemera]

..or "I Like This and That, I Wonder How They'll Taste Together?"

A few moments ago, while sitting here reading the boards, I had a pang of hunger so I heaved myself out of my chair and went scavenging in the kitchen only to find my cabinets mostly bare and my fridge full of frosty beverages and not much else.

I did happen to find a large can of chili in one of the compartments and an onion in another though, so I decided to tempt the fates and try my hand at some Tex-Mex.

Not having a functioning stove, I wound up dicing and then broiling half of the onion in my stove after seasoning them with some garlic, cayenne, and chili powder. While that was going on, I was also doctoring up the rather bland chili with a little bit of hot sauce.

About five minutes later, the onions golden brown and added to the chili, I tasted my finished product and still found it lacking. Even for canned chili, the stuff didn't taste that good. Not knowing what else I could do, I looked in my cabinets some more and finally found something promising - horseradish sauce! I love the stuff and thought it would go great with it, not only improving its flavor but also giving it that extra heat it needed.

Sadly, I was wrong. I don't think I could have created something more offensive to the taste buds if I had covered a bowl of chocolate ice cream in lima beans and then topped it with a sauce of equal parts ketchup and vegemite.

After my tongue regains its function and my stomach stops roiling, I think I'll just walk to the Burger King down the street for lunch. While I doubt its greasy fare will do my stomach any favors, at least its unambitiously bland Whopper won't cause my taste buds to mutiny.

[luluBahrain]

Aesiron, as I have told you before and will tell you again......sometimes you scare me. That is all.

[GorillaMan]

Five minutes? You were cooking the onions far too fast, that was your problem.

:wally

[Ephemera]

I like raw onions and cooked them to soften them, not to, well.. actually cook them. I wanted the flavor intact but just didn't want them crunchy, and five minutes in the broiler did that perfectly.

Besides, it was most assuredly the horseradish that did it. It was passable until I mixed it in where it suddenly became less palatable than my niece's used pampers.

[devilsknew]

Whew, the horseradish chili sounds pretty bad! You are a brave man!
I was hungry and got adventerous once.
It was surprisingly good, but dreadful to the eye.
I mixed leftover pizza sauce and garlic butter/sauce (cheezybread fixins') together and dipped oatmeal cookies in it.
Now you're thinking horrible right? Wrong. It was awesome.
The cinnamon/allspice and garlic went nicely.

[Telperien]

Horseradish sauce? Yikes. I am notoriously weak of mouth and gullet, so any kind of spicy or hot things frighten me. I had to force myself to eat salsa a week or so ago. I like salsa, but it was a bit harrowing for me. Cleared out the old sinuses though.