Preparation
is key to many things in life, as is cooking. I've learned to make
sure you have the necessary utensils, not just the ingredients. So
before I did anything, I put a tablespoon on my shopping list before
adding the ingredients. A teaspoon, however, is a third the size of a
tablespoon, or so I found after I'd finished cooking. So
as long as I can remember that...
When I shopped, though, I couldn't find a tablespoon in the whole of Tesco. Poor performance.
To begin, I poured the flour into the hot milk without mixing it with water
first. I had to start that again. Then I turned the grill on and
forgot to light it, resulting in me remembering late and nearly
losing my eyebrows.
The
recipe includes peas for the ingredients of the gratin itself, which
is a bit like a pie. But at the last minute the instructions suggest
you also throw in peas as a side dish. Oh.
I
then forgot to preheat the plates so the food cooled quite quickly
once served.
The
topping, a mixture of cheese and breadcrumbs, ended up a little thin
due to the size of the dish.
I
got the timing for all of this wrong- I invited my parents around to
share it with me but when they arrived I was still 20 minutes off. It
was a good job I did invite them around as this isn't a dish that's
safe to reheat, and it fed the three of us. We all liked it, though,
and the fish- Vietnamese river cobbler and smoked haddock- was very
flavoursome, one more so than the other. The recipe suggested cod,
but on my shopping list I recorded only their generalisation of “white fish fillet”.
Timing etc. aside, the meal was a tasty success.
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