Thursday, December 21, 2006

Finger Salad

So I did something really stupid last night. I sliced off a good size chunk of the fleshy part of my thumb. How? Well, with this lovely contraption, my beloved mandoline.


I was slicing onions for a salad that I was taking to a dinner party. I was in a rush and so I decided to forgo the use of the safety gripper and just held the onion with my fingers as I sliced. Brilliant, I know. It hurt like a son of a b.. and it wouldn't stop bleeding. I wrapped it up as best I could, started the salad over and went to the dinner party. I got a mix of sympathy and teasing from the other guests. I told them that I was careless and didn't deserve sympathy. What I deserved was to mocked and mocked severely. They were more than happy to oblige.

The salad turned out great and my friend Carl, renamed it Finger Salad in my honour. Gee, sweet.

The salad was delicious. Here's the link if you want to try it. Just promise me you'll be more careful than I was.

Mandarin Salad (Finger Salad)

xo,

Dragon

1 comment:

tiff said...

I have done this very thing, only I didn't notice it until the potatoes in the salad started to turn pink.

Darn clean cut, that one was.

Ouch.