larry_stewart
Master Chef
So I've been cutting down (significantly) on my carbs for medical reasons. After being really strict for the past 2 months , I now allow myself 1 cheat meal. I made a calzone along with spaghetti 1 a mushroom marinara sauce , that my dad used to make from a Julia Childs cookbook.
Anyway, I've made the sauce countless numbers of times, so I dont really need to look at the recipe. everything was going fin until I reached into the cabinet to grab the oregano ( recipe calls for approximately 1 tsp of dried oregano). Tapped out about 1 tsp in my hand and dumped it in to the pot ( which already had the garlic, onion, olive oil and butter going. Mixed it up a bit, then gave a little taste, which is when I realized It wasn't Oregano. I looked at the spice jar and realized I just dumped in Marjoram instead. I started carrying on, using a few choice 'cooking gone bad' words which I shall not repeat. My wife thought I burned myself , the way I was acting. When she realized I screwed up, she just kept quiet and let me get it out of my system. I didnt thoroughly mix it in, so I grabbed a soup spoon and was able to fish out some of it. I then added the oregano and went on my merry way.
It definitely could have been worse, and oregano is a strong enough herb that it hid most of the flavor. But what annoyed me is that I had one meal to look forward to and I screwed it up. The jar was clearly labelled . Problem is, all the jars from the same company are the same size, shape, color, label .... except for the written words. Yeah, I know OREGANO and MARJORAM look nothing alike. But having cooked in this kitchen for 20 + years , and making this recipe for probably about the same amount of time, I was on autopilot.
Could have definitely been worse, and wasn't a bad sauce, just not the sauce I was looking forward to having all week. I guess better luck next week
Any of you guys have any rookie mistakes that you made ( later on in your cooking life, not true rookie mistakes when you were truly a rookie. Lord knows I have many of those )
Anyway, I've made the sauce countless numbers of times, so I dont really need to look at the recipe. everything was going fin until I reached into the cabinet to grab the oregano ( recipe calls for approximately 1 tsp of dried oregano). Tapped out about 1 tsp in my hand and dumped it in to the pot ( which already had the garlic, onion, olive oil and butter going. Mixed it up a bit, then gave a little taste, which is when I realized It wasn't Oregano. I looked at the spice jar and realized I just dumped in Marjoram instead. I started carrying on, using a few choice 'cooking gone bad' words which I shall not repeat. My wife thought I burned myself , the way I was acting. When she realized I screwed up, she just kept quiet and let me get it out of my system. I didnt thoroughly mix it in, so I grabbed a soup spoon and was able to fish out some of it. I then added the oregano and went on my merry way.
It definitely could have been worse, and oregano is a strong enough herb that it hid most of the flavor. But what annoyed me is that I had one meal to look forward to and I screwed it up. The jar was clearly labelled . Problem is, all the jars from the same company are the same size, shape, color, label .... except for the written words. Yeah, I know OREGANO and MARJORAM look nothing alike. But having cooked in this kitchen for 20 + years , and making this recipe for probably about the same amount of time, I was on autopilot.
Could have definitely been worse, and wasn't a bad sauce, just not the sauce I was looking forward to having all week. I guess better luck next week
Any of you guys have any rookie mistakes that you made ( later on in your cooking life, not true rookie mistakes when you were truly a rookie. Lord knows I have many of those )