Tonight I had what I thought was a pretty good dinner menu, all things considered: My kids were staying with me (snow days, icy roads, etc, so their Dad and I did a reworking of this weekand swapped nights), I hadn't been to the store, etc. I decided we'd have Brats, a random veggie, and for a new trick, potato dumplings.
Now, the recipe for potato dumplings was pretty simple, and it allowed me to use my new favorite kitchen gadget, a potato ricer (Christmas present from A). Ricers are COOL! They're like the old Playdough Barber Shop kits that I coveted as a kid but never got. (Har humph).
The only tricky part of the recipe was that the dumplings wanted to be chilled before being cooked. Now, this was a spur of the minute dinner, and I didn't really have time to chill things. Plus, I've cooked enough to know that recipes are more like....guidelines. So I ignored that bit of the instructions, and popped the dumplings into the water.
And, when the rest of the dinner was done and I went to get the dumplings, I had a lovely pot of gruel!
Um, yeah. Apparently they DO mean follow all the directions!
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