What did I do to deserve this!
I just knew my day was going to be bad when I turned on the shower first thing in the morning and was rewarded with a horrible squeeling noise and no water! So my first job of the day was to jump in the car and get down to the local plumbing shop to buy a new power shower. An hour later I was ?180 lighter but much cleaner!
We had planned to have guests later that evening and you guessed it - I was going to cook one of my "famous" homemade curries. So at 5 o'clock I prepared all of the ingredients and put the onions, garlic, ginger, etc in my 5 month old Cuisinart electric wok to boil up. Ten minutes later I checked the mix to find it had heated to lukewarm before the wok switched itself off. After much cussing I had checked electical connections, fuses, etc and deduced that the element had burned out! :'(
Not to be put off by a second disaster I cracked another beer and transferred the sauce mix to another container and started again. A while later I was ready to transfer the boiled mix to the blender and thought to myself, "I'm now running late so I won't bother letting it cool for a while". Big mistake.
The first batch poured into the plastic blender jar created cracks in the side...
...sip of beer.
The second batch poured into the plastic blender jar created a light seapage...
...open another can.
The third batch poured into the plastic blender jar caused a small stream to flow down the side of the blender, across the worktop and down onto the floor...
...several more sips.
The final batch poured into the plastic blender jar resulted in hot curry sauce being deposited all over the worktop, wall, the dog and myself! ;D
Get the wine from the fridge, open it and pour into a 1/2 pint mug!
We finally sat down and ate our chicken vindaloo & vegetable rogon around 9:30 PM and I guess that the only consolation was it was remarkably tasty, given the disasterous circumstances! Of course by that time everyone had consumed much alcohol and we all saw the funny side of it.
Barry ;)