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Pop quiz: You’re making this recipe for garbanzo bean and turkey sausage soup. After sauteeing the garlic and sausage, you realize that the only tomatoes you have are crushed, not diced, which means they’re more like tomato sauce than tomato chunks. You: a. Decide to turn the recipe into tomato sauce and cook some pasta to go with it. b. Add some of the tomatoes, but only the one cup the recipe calls for. c. Dump in the whole 32-ounce can, figuring your roommates will help you eat the soup if it doesn’t turn out well (if you’re one of my roommates, you can stop reading here).
Amazingly, the soup still isn’t terrible. A little odd, yes, but not terrible. You decide it would be good with some black beans, but all you have is a can of Cuban-seasoned black beans. You: a. Skip the beans. b. Rinse off the seasoning and then add them. c. Figure at this point the soup can’t get any weirder and dump in the whole can.
