this isn't our stew but it could have been on another night.*
As you know, Marc does most of the dinner cooking around here and he is not constrained by any sort of rules. Last night we were having stew. He hates to brown things so I browned the meat and then fled the kitchen. When he called me to come serve myself, I ladled a spoonful in my bowl and then reached for a second ladleful.
“Is that the leftover salad?” I asked him as I peered into the pot. We had had spinach salad the previous night.
“Yeah,” he says.
“Oh.”
“No euwwws allowed.” he said.
“It wasn't an euwww,” I replied, “it was an ohhh.”
I was contemplating what cooked cucumber was going to taste like.
*http://stage.apartmenttherapy.com/thekitchn/main-dish/recipe-classic-beef-stew-073262
It looks YUMMY!
ReplyDeleteand what do cooked cucumbers taste like?????? ohhh or ewwwww or ahhhhhh.
ReplyDeleteCooked cucumbers, hmmmm. So, how was it? Did you pick them out?
ReplyDeletePriceless!
ReplyDeleteI am glad you ate, I have just been through a stir fry content commentary with some people refusing to eat.
I am through with cooking.
PS Cucumbers are good fried but I have never had them in stew. Let me know how it turned out.
ReplyDeleteThis is a man after my own heart, he knows how to make refrigerator stew!
i think i just threw up in my mouth a tad bit. ick.
ReplyDeletei have to stop pooldad from doing this all the time.
just say no. lol.
Hilarious! That is something My husband would so do! Straight faced! AND expect it to be the most wonderful thing i ever ate!
ReplyDeleteMy husband occassionally cooked a meal lovingly referred to by the rest of the family as "Dads Slop" it was anything he could find in the 'fridge with a can of tinned tomatoes thrown in!
ReplyDeleteServe salad WITH the stew. Not IN the stew. No peanut butter and jelly in the stew, either.
ReplyDeleteSalad in the stew huh? Ha! Well, how did cooked kukes taste like????
ReplyDeleteHugs
SueAnn
Whoa. OK. Stew is stew.
ReplyDeleteSo - how was it?
At least you didn't waste the spinach salad!
First time I ever heard of using salad in a stew. And I thought I was the queen of creative uses of leftovers.
ReplyDeleteCreative. They put greens in stew all the time on the cooking channel and the texture of cooked cucumbers can't be too different from celery or onions. I applaud his creativity. (Of course I didn't actually eat it). I'm guessing it tasted OK. His mistake was leaving the leftover salad in a recognizable state. I can see where it would make you suspicious of his cooking in the future though.
ReplyDeleteWell, the spinach, bell peppers, green onions and tomatoes were good. The cucumber wasn't terrible, tasted a bit stronger perhaps with the texture of, well, cooked cucumber, but the occasional pecan half was a little weird.
ReplyDeleteIn my house, Hubs is afraid of leftovers...
ReplyDeleteThe stew looks good, like soup, a few spices and who cares what's in it! We have a system that works for us. I cook, he cleans up--owns the dishwasher. I will share my favorite cucumber recipe--microwave bread and butter pickles.
ReplyDeletehttp://allrecipes.com//Recipe/microwave-bread-and-butter-pickles/Detail.aspx
We were wondering the same thing - I had made a little salad with our grape tomatoes, squash & cucumber & we were thinking of putting it on top of a frozen pizza we were cooking. We decided that we were too leary of the cucumbers to try. I always figured they're so full of water that they'd just disappear if cooked.
ReplyDeleteHmmm - so how was it?
ReplyDeleteCooked cucumber deserves an ewww :-)
ReplyDeleteBon Appetite,
jj
Well, what's the verdict?
ReplyDeleteI like the heading, I am all to aware of the "thank you, this is delicious" obligation.
LOL It could have been worse.. like lettuce.
ReplyDeleteThat man is very resourceful... no waste there! But I don't know about cooked cucumbers...
ReplyDeleteHa! I'm sure it was delicious!
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