Oh Good! I've Been Stupid Again

I have a very good recipe for cauliflower soup. Aside from 4 cups of cauliflower, it calls for 2 cups of leeks, 1 cup of sweet potato, as well as other add-ins. I brought home the ingredients from my earlier shopping this week.

After I bring the ingredients home, Sue usually puts them away. She'll wash the fruit and veggies and put things in containers. On this occasion, she went the extra mile by preparing both the cauliflower and the leeks. She told me that she had prepared the cauliflower florets, but when I started to gather the ingredients, I was pleasantly surprised to see that she had also sliced the leeks. That was almost the biggest part of the preparations.

I gathered the ingredients together, did the cooking, and used the blender to to puree slightly more than half of the ingredients into soup. 

The result was quite tasty, even though I had substituted cheddar cheese for Swiss cheese.

Even though it was good, something seemed different.

As Sue was falling asleep that night, she came to the realization that she hadn't washed the cauliflower container.

No people! I had not forgotten to add cauliflower, but . . . I had used the wrong container. I used the container with leftover cauliflower after Sue had measured the 4 required cups in a different container.  The container thatI used probably had only half or even less of the required amount of florets.

And that was what was wrong — the soup was not as thick as it usually is. It was still tasty, but it wasn't the same. It had been awhile since I last made it, so I just put it down to faulty memory.

Sue said that she would cook some of the rest of the cauliflower and integrate it with the remainder of the soup. She did that little thing, and, so, we had a heartier bowl last night.

Although I made one of my usual faux pas, it was a good thing in a way because it gave me a fresh blog topic. I should make a collection of these types of posts: The Pratfalls of AC.