I went to grad school with a guy who got a pot of spaghetti sauce boiling and then dumped in box of dried pasta.
I went to college with a guy who once “helped” me bake a cake. He read the ingredients list and saw that it called for “2 eggs, separated”.
You know where this is going. Yes, he broke one egg into one bowl, and another egg into another bowl. Ta-da!! 2 eggs, separated.
He looked so proud, like your golden retriever when he’s just presented you with half a dead squirrel.
And people said the cooks on America’s Worst Cooks were pretending.
They could have written that recipe using just one line by saying: Read the instructions on the can.
Now, let’s cut golden retriever boy some slack. When a recipe says something like “2 tablespoons sugar, divided” it means that’s the total amount required and you’ll have to split it as you work the recipe. Perhaps he equated “separated” with “divided.”
Of course, we still tell the story of a relative who called home from college to ask, “When you make macaroni and cheese, do you have to boil the macaroni first?”
I bake a fair amount..and if you just told me that you needed “two eggs, separated” I could see myself having done the same thing.
I can’t decide whether to laugh at this or be thankful that no one was hurt. Did the can just spring a leak, or fail catastrophically?
Well, I often use cook-in pasta sauces where you don’t cook the pasta first. But you add a bunch of extra water to the sauce, and cooking time’s about 45 minutes all told.
Don’t know for sure, we weren’t in the room when the mess was made. But if you thought my friend was foulmouthed when he asked her to make the beans, you should of heard her when he told her to clean it up!
Question (from an Englishman): What’s an English pea?
It’s Paula Deen, so an English pea is probably pure sugar.
My guess is that she meant marrowfat peas.
Answer (from an Englishman): a pea.
(ok, a garden pea but that’s not such a good answer)
It goes over better at parties than her English Pee recipe.
In the USA, Southerners call them “English” peas to distinguish them from “black-eyed” peas, which are much more common in southern cooking.
(I used to live in Memphis, Tennessee.)
They could just call them green peas.
Yeah, green peas woudl be normal here in Virginia.
No amount of butter will help canned peas, English, marrowfat, garden,or green.
Why don’t we just link to Food Network Humor