Dinner was a Flop Tonight

I think that trying new foods and new recipes always carries the risk of a dinner flop. Tonight was the first complete flop I have had in quite some time. I think there was another dinner involving curry last spring that was terrible and only my husband ate. Tonight I made the Curried Butternut Squash & Apple Soup, Roasted Salmon and Sauteed Spinach with feta and pine nuts. Doesn’t it sound lovely? UGH! Every part of it was terrible. Well, actually the salmon was ok after I microwaved it a couple minutes because I discovered that it was undercooked once I had it on everyone’s plate. I usually would not microwave fish but it was clear at that point that the dinner was a complete disaster and I just wanted it over with. The last batch of the soup that I pureed in the blender popped my hand off the lid (too hot, duh Jenn) and sprayed me and most of the kitchen AND the darned thing didn’t even taste good. I suppose I’ll get to cleaning the squash soup from my kitchen and hope to get it out of my hair which is dried and crusty now. Don’t worry about the kids, I let them have some chicken nuggets and pear slices. I even dropped a chicken nugget in the sink before getting them to their plates!