Kitchen Disasters Recipe Kitchen Disasters : 23 Recipes

Menu du jour kitchen disasters : 23 Recipes

Kitchen Disasters
Confessions, I’ve had horrible, disastrous, luck in the kitchen this week. Not once, but twice. A new chocolate cake recipe I decided to try was a complete failure – dry, and as heavy as a brick. The new rice pudding recipe I tried[...]

Kitchen Disasters
It?s FRIDAY! Yippeee!! Tonight ? Iron Man 2 Tomorrow ? Aquatica Sunday ? Sprint Triathlon Bring it on! I took off like a bat out of hell this morning on my 6 mile run. Scratch that ? I stumbled out of bed and ran a leisurely 6[...]

Recipe Kitchen Disasters: Flying Pot Pie Edition

Kitchen Disasters: Flying Pot Pie Edition
Have you ever wondered how far flying pot pie goo can travel? Me neither. Yet, sadly, I found out last night. The answer is 5 or 6 feet. Its on the walls. Its on my pictures ... its on the kitchen door ... and on the[...]

The kitchen grinch mindset
What better season is there for cooking and baking then the holidays? The weather is cold, houses are warm and filled with friends and family, guests keep you on your hosting toes...except all that is a bunch of crap. Right? Well not really but[...]

Broken
In place of my scheduled peach post, I’m paying tribute to three fallen friends who gave their structural integrity in the name of food. Yesterday, as I carried a box laden with cake, bowls, wooden cutting boards and knives to the car,[...]

I?m back!
I’m back. Andrew’s back. The cats are back. And we’re all pretty please about it. Even the Gerber daisies perked up for the occasion. After three months of camping out in my parents’ guest room we’re once[...]

Leaky Pipes
Technically, our leak wasn’t as bad as this photo. Emotionally? I felt like I was the Dutch kid asked to stick his finger in the dike. One false move and lives would be lost, houses swept away and my name would forever be synonymous[...]

Eel shlemiel
I hesitated about posting this at all, as it contravenes the first rule of my blog, which is that anything I post should taste good enough that I might want to cook it again. However, I've decided to take a more relaxed approach to the blog this[...]

When recipes fail
Dull winter days. Steaming hot bowls of soup. A hunk of cheese and a slice of bread makes it a meal. Wouldn’t you just love the recipe for this delicious, nutritious, palate-pleasing cold weather solution? Well, I’m not giving[...]

Microwave mistakes
In the immortal words of my disaster-prone husband, “ It’s okay! The fire’s out !” Only it was my turn to bellow this comforting phrase as I doused the flaming object in running water. Ever wonder what would[...]