setting things on fire as my ancestors did before me

Inspired by luzula who was posting about new cooking experiments.

I had my first major cooking fail last week. I tried a new a pasta dish and it was awful. Ended up throwing it out.

I'm still playing with the curry recipe. I made a batch without any habanera and mixed it with my first too-hot batch and I thought it came out perfect for me - but probably still too hot to feed to my gf and I'd like to have a version I can cook for her. I tried some of the no-habanera at all on it's own and it's definitely missing something if I make it that way.

My next round of experiments will be to adjust the base spice mix - maybe keep the habanera and reduce the red chili, or reduce both and ramp up one of the other ingredients to offset. More roti for me to eat, alas.

The other thing I have been making in big batches is soup. When it's hot out I always want salads for lunch, in the winter I crave soup. So far I have found recipes for a pumpkin, a carrot-thyme, and a curried sweet potato that I really like. I've also tried a variety of squashes combined with various other things - apples mostly - but I found those ones pretty meh. The ones I like the most also seem to be the ones that freeze the best, so I make big pots of them and then spend the rest of the week fishing them out of the freezer to nuke for lunch.

I did try the garlic noodles, with bok choy. They were pretty good? But not enough by themselves, they need to go with something and I haven't quite figured out what yet.

I obviously need to watch more youtube videos.