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Mar. 15th, 2010 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yagathaiMan, I screwed up dinner. I was going to do four courses -- a shrimp cocktail, deviled eggs, an anise and asparagus salad with lovely roasted peppers, and scallops provencal.
The shrimp cocktail wasn't chilled enough. Bad timing on my part, alas.
The deviled eggs turned out too salty because I accidentally used twice as much anchovy and caper as I should have (the recipe was for ten eggs, but I had ten halves). That's just a cockup, no question about it.
The fennel salad actually turned our really nicely, so that wasn't so bad.
But the scallops... I only remember using a little salt, the barest pinch -- but they were so incredibly salty that they were nigh inedible*. I don't understand it -- did I spill the salt shaker into them? Garlic, shallots, parsley and butter were the only things I added. Alternatively, were they... were they brined in a salt pickle at the market? I hear they do that sometimes to keep them fresher, but oh my god these things were utterly ruined. I can't imagine where all that salt came from.
I am unamused, friends. And also I have a salt headache now.
* I ate them anyway, as penance, but the roommate only took a couple of bites of her portion.
The shrimp cocktail wasn't chilled enough. Bad timing on my part, alas.
The deviled eggs turned out too salty because I accidentally used twice as much anchovy and caper as I should have (the recipe was for ten eggs, but I had ten halves). That's just a cockup, no question about it.
The fennel salad actually turned our really nicely, so that wasn't so bad.
But the scallops... I only remember using a little salt, the barest pinch -- but they were so incredibly salty that they were nigh inedible*. I don't understand it -- did I spill the salt shaker into them? Garlic, shallots, parsley and butter were the only things I added. Alternatively, were they... were they brined in a salt pickle at the market? I hear they do that sometimes to keep them fresher, but oh my god these things were utterly ruined. I can't imagine where all that salt came from.
I am unamused, friends. And also I have a salt headache now.
* I ate them anyway, as penance, but the roommate only took a couple of bites of her portion.
