{Insert Alec Baldwin’s Trump impression} I fully understand the intended purpose of cheesecloth, and that it’s made of cotton, but seriously, though. What is cheesecloth? I bought some recently after months of intending to make a purchase. The problem is that I couldn’t find it in my local grocery store, or in any other “non-natural” store…
Category: Fails
Chocolate Pudding????
Insert high-pitched, not-quite-sure-what-it-tastes-like voice when reading the title. Last night a friend of mine sent a recipe to me. It sounded delicious and I just so happened to have all of the ingredients in my kitchen. I also just happened to have bought a hand mixer so I thought this would be the perfect recipe…
Happy Father’s Day! Here are your water crêpes!
Normally, my husband makes pancakes on the weekends. He’s amazing at it. He knows the right milk to mix ratio, the right cooking temperature, and even how to get the size of each pancake just perfect. I, on the other hand, have no idea how to make pancakes. I can read the directions and they…
Shrimp Soup
It’s not as good, or purposeful, as you might think. Tonight, I made shrimp and grits, with some added ingredients because I’m not one to waste perfectly good vegetables. That being said, it still did not make up for the overwhelming amount of liquid in my shrimp and grits. The problem being that I’m lazy,…
Legos
Every Spring, my family and I pick out plant or flower seeds, pot them, and wait for them to grow. The first week is always the hardest for my kids. Nothing appears to be happening, and they aren’t the most patient of creatures. Usually a couple of weeks go by and tiny sprouts are finally…
This is what defeat looks like….
To some, this may look like one of those obligatory pictures on social media of a meal that has yet to be eaten or enjoyed. This is actually after I made it, after I placed it lovingly on the table for my children, and after they balked at the idea of eating BBQ Jackfruit with…
Capers….who needs ’em?
Why are capers so immensely hard to get out of their teeny jars? I certainly never need enough capers to warrant purchasing a giant jar of them. Though said jar has a wide enough opening that would allow me easy access to retrieve the capers, I’m just not willing to buy one. The 4-ounce jar…
Not Worth It.
Some things in life are “worth it” and others are not. Jumping through hoops and hurdles to get what you want in life is “worth it”. The experience that I went through for this recipe is not “worth it”. In fact, it’s completely “worthless”. Let’s start with things that I know could have been improved…
Worst. Recipe. Ever.
I should have stopped when I couldn’t figure out how to successfully put the fish into the pan of hot oil. One of tonight’s recipes (yes there are two recipes for tonight, both disasters) was Pesto Seared Salmon. Only I substituted the salmon for tilapia. I love salmon but seeing the skin on one side…
I just want to cry…..and eat dinner.
I’m going on hour two of cooking tonight’s dinner. I was lazy and didn’t want to cook this meal according to the directions (prep time of 15 minutes on the stove, mind you). I figured that I would make the world’s largest tin foil packet, crammed with food and realistically thought that it would be…
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