This was a culinary adventure along the lines of "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly...." The combination was two of my favorite foods: a frozen vegan smoothy, and hot curry powder from the Spice House. The directions on the label say "Turn any dish into a spicy curried dish by adding this." Hmm.

The basic recipe was frozen bananas and raspberries, soymilk, maple syrup, vanilla extract, and hot curry powder. The first taste was awful, way too much vanilla. To counteract the medicinal taste I poured in some sugar, but inadvertantly added a large lump. This tasted much better, but was now too sweet and slightly grainy. To sour it up, I added orange juice, and at Sam's suggestion added some red wine, because "Wine always makes things taste good." I added too much wine also, so to thicken it up I added ice cubes and, what the hell, new potatoes from a can. And more hot curry powder.

In the end, the salt from the new potatoes really helped tie the curry to the sweetness of the smoothy. The final product was delicious! Although I might have enjoyed it more had I not seen what went into it.