Originally Posted by
Shiay
Well... I was experimenting, as I usually do when there is nothing substantial and there's almost nothing but canned foods in the pantry, and I made an interesting kind of sauce (gravy to be exact) that had potato chunks, carrots, corn, onions and... well... basically anything else you'd find in a beef stew. Unfortunately, there was something that I did to it to make it come out rather... crappy. It was perhaps the spices that I used for it since it was the spicy taste that was overpowering. Though, not wanting to waste it, we put it in Tupperware and let it sit in the fridge until the next day. That's when my mother got the bright idea of, "hey... maybe if you add rice and make it a bit more thicker, it'll be better."
I don't usually take my mother's advice, but the beef stew looking sauce couldn't be ruined any farther, I thought. So we did as she suggested and I also decided to mellow out the flavour a bit with just a small bit of sugar and water as we were making the sauce thicker. The rice absorbed a lot of the flavour and mellowed it out and actually made the experiment an edible and good dish. I'm actually still not all that sure on what I should call it, to be honest. It was just me experimenting, after all. >A>;;