Cooking Disaster

Gordon Ramsey himself would be proud of my culinary accomplishments of the other night, and by accomplishments, I mean epic failure.  I can cook, I swear I can!  This just happened to be one of my brain fart moments where everything just went to hell.  So without further ado, I give you my recipe for a true cooking disaster.

Ingredients:
1 packet Trader Joe's pre-cut pre-washed Blue Mountain green beans
1 box Trader Joe's Indian Pav Bhaji
1 moment of a lapse of common sense.

Instructions:
Step 1.  Cook rice in a pot instead of a rice cooker.  Watch as it bubbles under the lid and the rice-goo overflows and drips down the sides of the pot.  Watch as this then puddles in the drip pan under the electric burner.

Step 2.  Turn up the heat on said electric burner (complete with dried rice-goo) and watch as said dried rice-goo burns and starts smoking.  Burn and overcook the rice.

Step 3.  Heat up the Pav Bhaji by boiling the sealed packet in water.

Step 4.  Place microwave ready package of green beans into the microwave and heat for 3-4 minutes (according to the package).  Assume that the green beans are fully cooked.  Do not test.

Step 5.  Plate out overcooked rice and pile undercooked green beans on top.  Dish out piping hot Pav Bhaji on top of both the rice and the green beans.

Step 6.  Taste.  Curse.  Smack forehead for own stupidity.  

Step 7.  Take a pair of tongs and try to manually scrape off the Pav Bhaji off each individual green bean onto the rice so that the raw green beans can be cooked properly in a frying pan.

Step 8.  Sauté the green beans long enough so that they're edible but also so that when they're done, the rice and Pav Bhaji are cold.

Step 9.  Place cold rice and Pav Bhaji clusterf*ck into the microwave and heat.  Burn Pav Bhaji.

Step 10.  Epic failure complete.

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