I have heard many people tell funny stories about times they’ve experimented with dinner and it just flopped!  It is one of those things you think will never happen to you.  Then it does and you realize it was bound to happen eventually, and will probably happen again.  Mine, is a story of failed soup.  I decided to try a blackbean soup recipe from one of my cookbooks, for the first time.  This was especially risky, though I didn’t realize it at the time, because it was my night to bring dinner for a friend whose mom is sick. 

I think everything was going fine, until the last ingredient.  It said,”cayenne pepper to taste.”  Well, I just sprinkled cayenne pepper ALL OVER the soup and stirred it in.  There were already a few spicy ingredients in there, and the pepper just shot it over the edge.  It was so spicy, Dave and I could only eat  a few bites before we could not feel our mouths.  Tthere was no way I could bring this soup to my friend, and her young son.  But, it did not end there.

I still had some sliver of hope that I could redeem my soup.  We started brainstorming . What else could we do?  Dave suggested making cornbread.  Maybe it would be like putting chili over cornbread.  Maybe it would soak up the spice.  I liked it!  As I mixed up to cornbread ingredients Dave and I got into deep conversation about, well who remembers, but we were focused.  Apparently, I was too focused because as I pulled the cornbread out of the oven I realized I had only put a teaspoon of baking powder in it, instead of a Tablespoon, ugh!  So I had super spicy soup and bricks for cornbread and we decided to pick up something ready made from Whole Foods and bring it over.  Lesson learned and here’s to a better experiement next time!