Tonight's dinner was Vietnamese-style beef and noodle broth. It's kind of like pho, traditional Vietnamese soup. I thought it tasted pretty good, but the S.O. thought it needed some tweaking. I think I can accommodate him and keep it fairly healthy.
But the real reason for this post isn't to share the recipe, it's to tell you about what I found in the basil. Because I don't have any kind of green-thumb whatsoever, I buy fresh herbs in these flat plastic packages. They're pretty convenient, and I don't usually waste too much that way. Tonight, I opened the package to pull out some basil for the soup and found a big-ass black spider.
I'm not usually terribly squeamish about spiders, but this one was sitting in my basil. And I freaked a bit. And by a bit, I mean I pretty much lost it,
slamming the package closed and calling the S.O. to deal with it. (He washed it down the sink.)I put the basil in a colander to rinse it and assure myself that Charlotte didn't leave any babies behind. I was thisclose to just throwing the entire package into the garbage -- the outdoor garbage. But I know that would have been really wasteful.
Still, I have to admit my skin is kind of still crawling.
3 comments:
You're braver than me. That would have been one flat package of basil by the time I was done, and you wouldn't have been able to separate the spider guts from the herb. So, what I'm saying is, we'd probably have ended up ordering pizza.
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeech. That's awful.
I'm with Heather. I probably would have tossed the whole thing.
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