Kitchen disasters :

Candied Flowers ? Part 2

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Ten days left to my sister’s garden wedding and I’m beginning to panic. My mom and I are making the wedding cake, and planned on decorating it with blooms from our gardens. But none of the flowers are paying any attention to[...]

Daring Cooks - Zuni Ricotta Gnocchi

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One of the hardest things about writing a food blog is coming up with ideas. I constantly walk the line between indulging my whims and keeping it real. So, for a monthly infusion of inspiration, I decided to join the Daring Cooks , the Daring[...]

Cooking And Photography Gone Wrong.

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You know the saying, "I am having a bad hair day or I had a marvelous hair day today"? Well, I have those kind of days in the kitchen sometimes (and with my hair!). Some days the food goes along perfectly, lighting for the food is great, and my[...]

Peach and Blueberry Upside-Down Cake Recipe

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If you drop and upside-down cake on its head does it revert to plain old a cake? Sadly, no. It just becomes yet another item to file under “Kitchen Disasters”. The only advice I can give you, other than not to drop the[...]

Moroccan-Inspired Nectarine and Plum Chicken

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I wish you could reproduce this recipe exactly as I made it. But you can't. Unless you mess up your preserves like I did. A few weeks ago, I attempted a homemade mixed-fruit ketchup. But I was so busy "multitasking" I missed the small but[...]

Marcy Goldman?s Apple-Raspberry Patchwork Crostata

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We have a tradition in our house. One of us usually kicks off the new year with a kitchen disaster. Last year, I discovered dried beans can, in fact, go stale . This year? I botched the pastry. What else? I learned the hard way[...]

Learn from mistakes, New Shopping site, Plan for New Year Eve party

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Finished Day 1 of Khana Khazana shoot . Got a chance to bake to my heart?s content. In fact, baking is one technique that evokes some fear in the novice cook for they have probably heard about baking disasters! I am sure many bakers will[...]

Smoked Paprika Beef Kebabs and The World's Longest Barbecue Round Up

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I survived World's Longest Barbecue . My grill was left a graveyard of charred wooden skewers and guests left happy and full of delicious local food. Now before you get on my case about nutrition, I assure you, guests brought a wide variety[...]

Kitchen Disasters

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We ALL have them. Even the most seasoned cook/baker has his or her "off" days. The most important thing is, we learn from them :)Read about my friends' funny encounters ... both involving pandan cakes! What a coincidence!- Zurin at Cherry on a Cake-[...]

The Chocolate Chunk Cookie Disasters

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I baked some cookies early this week and another batch a few minutes ago, and they were both disasters! I didn't bother taking pictures as I am too disappointed to take photos of them. Disaster # 1 I used the recipe I got from the Ultimate[...]