oh my god... please help!

[mankymummy]

i'm cooking paella for DPs special birthday treat tonight. i thought i'd cheat and buy 18p food colouring instead of 2.80 saffron. i put some yellow in and it has gone bright, bright orange.

and i mean like a traffic light.

what can i do?

i've been making out im a better cook than i really am and he's been going on about how he's looking forward to my authentic paella.

i'm going to start a new thread in chat... Whats the best way to get the bottom of a permanant marker pen....!

And on a serious note, it's not the reheating rice that can make you ill, it's the time it spends sitting asround after being cooked, all warm, not cooling down quickly enough, that is a danger.

If anyone wants to cook rice in advance to eat later, or to use in something like a rice salad , you need to cool it down really quickly after cooking by placing it in a seive under cold running water and then storing it in the fridge. When you go to reheat it make sure it is really really piping hot all the way through and held at this temp for at least 10 minutes, then eaten straight away.

sorry bottom OFF of a pemanent marker pen.

step away from the marker pen mankymummy!

PMSL at this thread!

this is where i find out that its actually i blue marker pen and my paella turns purple

LOL @ this thread for future reference tumeric is a cheaper alternative to saffron rather than food colouring.

Purple paella - god help us!!

You are very funny, mankymummy!!!!!

thats it you all go on and laugh at my idiocy misfortune ! .

Remind me not to come to your house for dinner!!!!

there's loads if you fancy it....

i'll throw in a can of white lightning too....

You poor thing - could you rescue the meat and prawns and make a tomato-based curryish sauce thing?

(That is probably not remotely helpful!!!!)

ah sod it, think i will just serve it up. at least its quite cheery looking !

i dont believe it, i've just discovered i have FROZEN the bottle of champagne (well bubbly) i got for him too.

definitely cheaper to go out next year...

serving in bra and pants it is then!

So, how did it go?

LOLOL at freezing champagne!

i really want to know how things went

This has cheered me up no end!

How did you get on? (I suspect you may be taking his mind off the Orage rice atm).

they could be eating and sporting a ready brek glow as we speak

well...

started off ok...

he said, "it looks lovely"

then... "um.. i think it might actually be dangerous to eat something that yellow"

i thought it was more orange but didnt want to argue the point.

so we ate it (i fed him lots of wine beforehand so he wasnt so worried about it)

oops sorry didnt finish...

it was actually ok but the thing is...

it seems to have dyed his false tooth really really yellow (and i dont have the nerve to tell him!)...

shriek...! shoud i tell him... shoud i?

how did it taste mankymummy????!!

I saw your thread earlier but didn't have time to post cos I was off to nursery.

made me laff though!

pmsl at false tooth turning yellow!

ROFL at it being dangerous to eat something that colour, that is hilarious.