Revisiting Expt. 4

Post-lab:
Since today's a Sunday and I kind'a woke up late for church (it was early enough if I didn't have to cook breakfast), ma mere went to help me out. Actually, ma mere had been awake for awhile now, seeing that she was busy chatting along and not cooking breakfast even though she's recovered. Ma mere went on to peel and cook the sweet potatoes, and helped me with the garlic, onions, and stuff.
Hmm... I thought I wanted to repeat the previous dish I made, supposedly, with the exception that this time I had to fry the eggplants myself, and that I'd put some sliced red apples around for decor. Ma mere added some butter while I fried the eggplants since I misjudged the amount of oil needed, and that was nice. However, ma mere interrupted somewhere in the middle and later added who knows how much water that was, intending to boil the corned beef. I know these were good intentions, but for some reason I was annoyed. I didn't want the meat to lose the taste (I think she wanted it to lose some taste because that's what she's accustomed to and that it'd be healthier).
So how do you salvage a dish like that? I thought I'd let the water evaporate to some extent, and when most of it were gone, I added 1 tbsp of oyster sauce and 1 tbsp of soy sauce, and stirred it until it was done.
Now, it tasted fairly salty for mon pere, because he's used to ma mere's bland style of cooking. If I had my grand mere et grand pere taste it, it would definitely pass, for it was just right for people who liked it that way. Anyway, I failed to consider their health with that salvage act, so I didn't pass. But then, what's done is done.

Date Performed: Nov. 29, 2009