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Culinary Experiment 7: Darwin in the Kitchen
Hoo boy. I'll fully admit to the fact that I rarely (actually, never) follow a recipe to the letter. I look at a recipe and go, "Hey, I think this needs x spices, and I don't want capers in there. I'll replace them with olives." Usually, this works out fairly well, especially when a recipe's spices are salt, pepper, salt, and maybe a little white pepper, for the really adventurous. I'm not a fan of OMGSPICY, but I do like my dishes to have flavor. Italian seasoning is the best.
However, the dish currently in the oven marks the first time I've really screwed with the infrastructure of a recipe. I've adapted a recipe put forth by one of my cousins, and blended it with another recipe (then added my own mutations), resulting in a creature that should hopefully be something like a taco with potatoes in a dish with veggies and tater tots on top. The thing is, making it has really required some thought on my part as to how to make it, as I need to rethink how to cook the potatoes, and when the other ingredients should be added so the potatoes have enough time to finish cooking, and at the same time, the tater tots will have enough time to cook as well. I honestly have no idea how it's going to turn out. Either way, I'm thinking of calling it the Very Veggie Tater Tot Taco Bake.
The funny thing is that his recipe is adapted from *another* recipe. It's like culinary evolution in action! The question is, will the dish survive the wilds that is the dinner table, far away from the safety of the oven, long enough to pass its recipe on?
ETA: I think it's a keeper. The only thing I need to change is how long the potatoes bake before adding everything else to it. They were a wee bit raw. Luckily, they cook by themselves, so it's easy enough to fix--just leave them in a bit longer so they have extra time.
However, the dish currently in the oven marks the first time I've really screwed with the infrastructure of a recipe. I've adapted a recipe put forth by one of my cousins, and blended it with another recipe (then added my own mutations), resulting in a creature that should hopefully be something like a taco with potatoes in a dish with veggies and tater tots on top. The thing is, making it has really required some thought on my part as to how to make it, as I need to rethink how to cook the potatoes, and when the other ingredients should be added so the potatoes have enough time to finish cooking, and at the same time, the tater tots will have enough time to cook as well. I honestly have no idea how it's going to turn out. Either way, I'm thinking of calling it the Very Veggie Tater Tot Taco Bake.
The funny thing is that his recipe is adapted from *another* recipe. It's like culinary evolution in action! The question is, will the dish survive the wilds that is the dinner table, far away from the safety of the oven, long enough to pass its recipe on?
ETA: I think it's a keeper. The only thing I need to change is how long the potatoes bake before adding everything else to it. They were a wee bit raw. Luckily, they cook by themselves, so it's easy enough to fix--just leave them in a bit longer so they have extra time.