When your cooking is compared to canned goods!

February 20, 2020

No fancy-schmancy here! In fact, they compared my cooking to canned goods!

Some people like to exaggerate the elegance of a dish they cooked and make it sound fancy. For example, calling pigs in a blanket “cocktail sausages in a delicate puff pastry shell”.I have to overcome the opposite challenge: my family is suspicious of any “fancy” sounding dish I present.

I find myself downplaying the name of any new recipe just to ensure that they will actually give it a chance! This is why Nigella Lawson’s delicious Greek Lamb Stew recipe became known as Beef and Pasta! I switched the lamb for beef because lamb is not welcomed at our house. However, I did not expect that the recipe would be further humiliated by being compared to Chef Boyardee!!

That is right.

After I had spent hours on a slow-cooked, wine macerated, herbs enhanced, spoon-tender beef stew with perfectly al dente pasta and the dish gets compared to canned goods. To be fair, apparently, the comment was meant as a compliment!

As such, I present to you Nigella’s original recipe:

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/greek-lamb-stew-recipe-2203718

Pictures of my Nigella Boyardee creation: