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Cooking & Baking

perfessor

(380 posts)

8. A Chinese vegetable stir fry.

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2026, 02:13 PM

Monday

Kids weee in the rugrat phase. Wife was frazzled at the end of the day. “Don’t worry honey, I’ll make a stir fry.” When it came time to add cornstarch, I reached for the orange box on the shelf. No it didn’t thicken the sauce. Added three more doses before I realized that the orange box was baking soda.

So it all got tossed and we went out for pizza.

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