NJM 13 in NoJoMo 2019

What tweak to a common dish do you make?

What do I not tweak when I’m cooking? No, I’m serious. If I’m cooking, I’ll add a ton of stuff to whatever it is I’m making.

I read the recipe, and start out fine. Then I taste it and it just snowballs from there. Like…
A friend’s son, who is trying to lose weight (and doing a damn good job of it) was making cabbage soup. He sent me the recipe, and I was like “ok, cool. I’ll go get the ingredients.”

Bought the cabbage, onions, bell peppers. It called for whole or stewed tomatoes, but I don’t like how they sometimes don’t break down and you have these huge stringy pieces of tomato, so I opted for diced. Used beef stock instead of water and bullion, added a ton more garlic than it called for.

Tasted it, and it was bland. Of course it was! It’s feckin’ cabbage soup! Went to the fridge and pulled out three different hot sauces and gave them all a bit of a taste. One didn’t have hardly any heat at all, One had omg burn your eyelids off heat, and the other had a kind of sweet heat that sneaks up on ya. So a couple of dashes of melting eyelids went in, and a pretty big glop of the sweet heat stuff.

It tasted sooo much better.

I still have some if anyone wants to come over.

Anyone? Please? I can’t eat it all by myself lol

Ah well.