Lunch on Wednesday I'm using up a lot of stuff from the freezer, gonna make some Tom Yum Kung. So I head out the the local grocery, and for it I'll need frozen Galangal, Lemongrass, Kaffir Lime Leaves. The cost alone - what? $35? I would have been better off just buying 5 tubs of the premix. Anyways, home to make it...
It's OK, by which I mean the Galangal is tough and has to be spat out, the frozen lemongrass (minced, they didn't have stems) I'm not sure did anything, and I have far more Kaffir Lime Leaves than ever I needed. Soup - Tasty, Recipe a failure, I should have read it more thoroughly, cooking times, etc, but I tend to wing it a little too much some times, and clearly this was one of those times.
***
In the evening I have some crackers and a slice of pizza with Steve's hot sauce. Steve, a neighbour, made me a jar, it goes down pretty easy. I have a high tolerance to spice.
Until I don't, not 10 minutes later and I'm in the bathroom, bent double on the floor, my mouth accepted it but my belly isn't, I'm dying, never had a stomach ache this bad - not an ache, an actual vivid pain, and I'm sweating and thinking who the hell wants to die on the bathroom floor, and comfortable with dying, but not in this position, and it takes me 10 minutes to stand up, make my way to the bedroom, a full two hours to recover.
Insane.
Thursday I stick close to home, for obvious reasons...
Not sure what to do with the rest of Steve's hot sauce, checking the bottle it's already eaten through the lining on the lid...