How To Make Charcoal

This is one of those recipes where you should not follow my directions!

In fact, don't even bother making this.

It was gross, even before I burnt it up in the oven for 9 1/2 hours.

Yes, 9.5 hours.

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The recipe is from Moosewood Restaurant Celebrates - Vegetable Pot Pie page 218

There are a lot of ingredients and a ton of steps and to make matters worse it messes up the whole kitchen.

So, if you still want to make this.

Foolish, foolish (shaking head ruefully).

Ingredients:

1 Tbs. veg. oil

1 1/2 cups chopped onions

2 bay leaves

2 1/2 cups cubed potatoes

1 cup veg. stock

2 cups cut green beans

3 cups peeled cubed butternut squash

2 1/2 cups sliced mushrooms

3 Tbs. chopped fresh parsley

1 1/2 Tbs chopped fresh dill (BAD! BAD! - This tastes horrible! Dill ruined the whole dish!)

Saute the veg. and then discard the bay leaves. Cover the veg. and set aside.

Next, make a roux or cheese sauce.

1/4 cup butter

1/3 cup white flour

2 cups veg. stock

1 1/2 cups grated cheese

salt and pepper to taste

Melt butter - whisk in flour - add veg. stock - whisk until thickened - add cheese



Pour into a 9x 13 x 2 inch greased dish
Bake at 375 degree
for 30 mins until bubbly.




Now if you are following MY recipe (please don't!)
bake for 9 and 1/2 hours.
Just pop it in, go to work and forget about it.
When you come home you will have
perfectly toasted ........

CHARCOAL!







Yum!
*sigh*

Following Directions

Don't follow MY directions for this craft!

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Instead go to this blog here and follow HER directions.

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I saw these candles and when A. stayed at my house we decided to make them.

I couldn't remember exactly how to make them......so I came up with my own idea.

They look nice, don't they.

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But they are extremely flammable!

We used glue and PAINT mixed together

and then rolled them in cocoa powder

or curry powder.

It was my mom who said, "Isn't paint kind of flammable?"
Doh!
I guess these are just for looks.
This was a very good lesson in reading directions
and not substituting things in a recipe.
Or at least try not to use
such flammable items as substitutions!
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Better luck next time!