[Sca-cooks] Evil Science Projects: Good News/Bad News

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Hullo, the list--

The bad news is that I discovered the hard way, in the middle of 
making a very mundane meatloaf sandwich, that someone had ingeniously 
removed all the mayonnaise from the jar in the fridge with the 
exception of a layer 1/128th of an inch thick lining the inside. 
After a moderately rough day and the realization that I didn't feel 
like cooking anything real or making real mayonnaise, with Spouse and 
Evil Spawn already in bed, I began to root around for alternatives.

The good news is that I discovered the last (already opened) jar of 
Green Almond Compost (a synthesis of the Forme of Cury and Menagier 
recipes).

The bad news is that I now find, after checking various forms of 
documentation, since the jar is unlabeled, that this is the last of a 
batch made in June of 1995.

The good news is that it went quite well on a meatloaf sandwich. The 
flavors are a little less bright than I remember them, but textures 
were essentially good, with just a bit too much of the liquid having 
either evaporated or absorbed by the solids, but it worked out pretty 
well when I chopped a spoonful of the stuff finely, the way you 
sometimes have to with the larger-cut Major Grey's Mango Chutney.

I'm posting this now so that, if I post an update in the morning, 
you'll all know I lived through the night ;-)

Adamantius
-- 
"As long as but a hundred of us remain  alive, never will we on any 
conditions be brought under English rule.  It is in truth not for 
glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are  fighting, but for freedom 
-- for that alone, which no honest man gives  up but with life 
itself."
	-- The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
	-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry 
Holt, 07/29/04