Hell´s Kitchen. Burn, baby!

Life is such a bitch sometimes. Sorry for the strong language. But it´s true. The last couple of hours of today were just SUCH AN ACCUMULATION of DESASTER, I wouldn´t believe ANYBODY who told me. But I swear to God, all you will read below is TRUE.

I wanted to practice our dish for the Cooking Cup (see this post) tonight.
First desaster: no store carried green asparagus today. But hey, we are spontaneous, I thought I´d just substitute with green beans. So far, so good.

Second desaster: I have one old pot. Don´t ask me why I kept this after buying the Fissler Set. I DON´T KNOW. So I had the Risotto on one hob, steak in a pan on the other, beens on the third. Set up the old pot (what the hell was I thinking?! *sigh*) on the fourth, and turned up the heat to MAX. Grabbed the bottle of neutral oil, and with a great drive, poured the oil in - KABOOM! Flames, Fire, HELL´S KITCHEN. Again, I swear to God I´ve never ever had such an adrenalin rush before. Luckily, I am a woman of action. Grabbed the next best lid, covered the pot and screamed for help ; ) It actually looked quite interesting (glas lid), the big old grey swaths of burn inside...
So please, don´t do anything like that in the future. Better do some bungee jumping or the like.
This is what the pot looked like afterwards:


Great, eh? Guess no magician could do a better show than me. I would have thrown it out of the window if we weren´t living on the first floor. So I´ve just thrown it right into the garbage bin. Bye-bye, hell´s pot!

But that wasn´t all. No. You wouldn´t have thought so, right? It´s like always - bad things seem to occur ONLY in crowds. Wouldn´t be any fun otherwise, I guess. So what happened when I tried to dress the Avocado Espuma onto the plates? The damn thing just exploded. Proof picture here:


As I´ve said earlier - life is just such a bitch sometimes. But at least the rest of the food tasted good. To put it in a nutshell:

Devastated kitchen utensils: one pot.
Devastated clothes: one shirt, one pair of white shorts (what else?!)
Devastated others: spots of green avocado mousse ALL OVER the white (!) wall paper, and on pretty much EVERYTHING on the counter

Conclusion: this is what Hell´s Kitchen has to be like. I´m not cooking any time soon - at least until tomorrow. And now, I´m off to cleaning up the mess I´ve brought upon myself. Thanks for reading - at least I feel better now : )