tonight's attempt came from the women's weekly short & fast recipe book. "pumpkin and corn patties" which shall be from here on known as SLOP. the recipe called for deb instant mashed potatoes but i just couldn't bring myself to that so i used normal mash (error #1 i soon discovered)...
boiled 1 cup of coarsely chopped pumpkin and 2 cups of potato (i don't really like the boiling, i think if i ever attempt to make this slop again i might try roasting them instead.)
mashed together with 1/2 cup of buttermilk (125ml), 125g can of drained and rinsed (why?) corn kernels and 1/2 coarse chopped fresh parsley.
now here i was supposed to 'shape mixture' into patties- but what i had was sloppy slop so there was no definitely no shaping happening ("choo chooo"- that's the sound of the fail train coming!) but i tried my best using a spoon. i was supposed to 'coat the patties' in toasted sesame seeds (1/2 cup/ 75g) and then cook them in heated oil in large pan. this of course turned to browned oily mash slop fairly quickly. also the mixture was tangy and pretty gross. so i added an egg (to try and hold it all together) and some curry powder and piri piri and tried again. still a fail, but a slightly less fail. so then i tried in the oven. this was the most succesful.
it tasted okay but gosh it was ugly. i must say i am left feeling quite disappointed. friggen cooking. FAIL
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