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ARRRGHGG!!!
I just spent over two hours of my life contemplating, prepearing, cooking, and cleaning up after a big dinner that I was SO sure that would be the most delicious thing I've ever tasted in my entire life!
I fixed roast potatoes in olive oil with fresh garlic, oregano, and thyme, and mashed carrots and sauteed mushrooms. Sounds awesome, right?
Well actually, it was crap and I hated it.
The potatoes would have been really good if they wern't under cooked.
And the carrots would be good if they just didn't taste like...um.....carrots. So there wasn't really anything WRONG with the carrots, other than I just didn't like them.
The mushrooms were good though, so no complaints there. But still, I spent forever planning the meal, chopping and preparing, cooking, and then worst of all having CLEAN UP AFTER IT ALL!!!
And one other very similar time, I made homemade spagetti sauce with capers, and this spagetti that was, instead of being made from wheat, was made from spinach. And it was completly disgusting, also.
But last week, I made a Japenese-Italian dinner of sauteed tofu marinated in soy sauce and miso (a salty soybean paste) and whole wheat pasta in a homemade bianca sauce (a pasta sauce made from olive oil, garlic and fresh herbs) and homegrown Brussel sprouts. That was REALLY good, though.....
ARRGHGG!!!

Too bad... the potatoes sound like they would have been good if they were'nt under cooked. I love potatoes

Yes, I was aware of your obseesion with potatoes.

Any more luck with cooking lately?

Not yet...once a week I usually try to make something more....sophisticsated than the usual fare, but I haven't had the oppritunity yet, since my last diasterous attempt.

Too bad.