Recipe #3- Potato and Leek Galette with Watercress

And we're back! I haven't had a post in a week or two, and came back only to find 371 views! I think Ms. Boyardee must just sit at work and hit refresh to make me feel good, either way it's working. Now onto the recipe.

I didn't know what a Galette was but looking at the instructions 'galette' seems to be a high class name for some delicious hash browns.  We were at the Boyardee mansion and wanted something to pair with some corn and salad and figured this would be nice, easy and completely stress free. Oh if this were only true.

Ms. Boyardee is a GREAT cook, and I mean great, but in those instances where something goes wrong, or is just a tinsy bit off, she gets a little ( and by little I mean gigantically) upset. Some examples include the homicidal spree I had to stop in Europe when the pancakes they served didn't come with maple syrup, or when we made "lava" cakes that had no "lava" in them and I had dialed 9-1 into my phone and had my finger poised over the 1 button for some time. Needless to say this does not happen often but when it does, I try and make light of it, or I overwhelm her with chocolate products until she is happy again.

This recipe started out great, Ms. Boyardee had skinned the potatoes and cut the leeks and it was my important job to grate the potatoes. I did an absolutely grate job ( Ha) grating the potatoes and only managed to get a couple skin cells in the mix. We then added the spices and flour with the potato and leeks and mixed them all around.

Then it was cooking time, with Ms. Boyardee at the helm with two huge skillets on the oven. I started forming little balls of the mixture and gave them to Ms. Boyardee to put on the pans. The directions state to "cook until golden on bottom, about 6 minutes". This is when things go a little south. Some of the galettes were cooking faster than others, some were crispy and all were not even close to as round as the picture ( I blame it on my ball making skills). At one point Ms. Boyardee blamed one of the skillets for the uneven cooking and demanded it be thrown out ( I just put it to the side) We then took the best looking galette out and had to substitute some mixed greens for the watercress. I knew something was amiss when Ms. Boyardee told me to make the galette for our picture as she knew my artistic skills max out at stick figures (as you can see from the photo below).

It was missing a little something, some sort of sauce, so Ms. Boyardee told me to "work my magic" on a sauce. Clue number two that she hated this recipe because my "magic" is muggle-ish compared to the Harry Potter that is Ms. Boyardee. I whipped up some greek yogurt, chives, and lots of lemon and figured I now have upgraded to home-magic kit abilities as it was not half bad.

When we all sat down for dinner, Ms.Boyardee was a tad standoffish and I asked her if anything was wrong and she replied "no", if it was only that simple. About 5-10 minutes later I questioned her on acting weird and she stated that she hated this recipe, and that it looked like crap, and tasted like crap and she was upset with it ( in slightly harsher words). Meanwhile, Everyone at the table loved them and devoured them all without any complaints. Sometimes Ms. Boyardee is too hard on herself and her cooking skills. If those were her screw-ups, I'll be alright with being a guinea pig on future recipes.

Rating:

Ms. B: 0/10 " F*ck this F*cking Recipe!" We originally went through all the recipes and she rated them all SUPER low. We then went back through them all and made them all higher, however when we got to this one she said, " No that's still accurate".

J: 6/10 Apparently I'm compensating for her low score