Things go wrong…

There have been times when I tried cooking something and the end result did not turn out right. Yes, sometimes, things did go wrong and what I dished out was not all that great or not quite I had expected or would want it to be…like when I tried my hand at cooking my own baked cheese rice the other day.

I wanted to use butter but there wasn’t any in the fridge nor in the house. We only had a tub of olive oil margarine and I’ve read all those stuff about not using olive oil to cook at high heat as it would cause it to turn toxic and I was afraid the same would apply too if I used the margarine. There was a bottle of grapeseed oil lying around so I used that instead along with these other ingredients…

– some chopped garlic, one of the sausages that I bought the other day and some chopped spring onions.

I grilled the sausage till nice and brown before adding the garlic…

…and after having fried it well, I put in the rice.

I had a bottle of Lea & Perrins’ Worcestershire sauce in the fridge but it was nowhere to be found. Probably it had been around too long and my missus saw it fit to throw it away…or maybe she used all of it for something that she cooked, I wouldn’t know. In the end, I added some smoked honey & mustard barbecue sauce and an egg plus a sprinkling of salt and pepper before I threw in the chopped spring onions…

Then, I put the rice in a foil baking container…

…and topped it with cheese…

…and finally, I put it in the oven to bake till the cheese had melted.

So what exactly was wrong with it? The rice…

…was very nice though I thought it would be nicer if I had used garlic butter instead of the grapeseed oil. That, however, wasn’t really a big deal – it was the cheese! I only had smoked cheddar slices in the fridge and I just used that. It melted all right but when cooled, it became hard again like in its original state. My girl said that I should not have used that…and it would not turn out in such a manner if I had used mozzarella.

Ah well, you win some, you lose some…and one thing’s for sure – should I try to cook something like this again, I would definitely not make that same mistake again. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Hehehehehehe!!!!