Well, the bright and shining examples of my culinary skill have been few and far between in the last three weeks. Instead I hope for edible but often end up with mediocrity at best, explosions(!) at worst. Here is a list that correlates with my ever decreasing self esteem:
- Not one, but two burnt batches of granola. We keep eating it, however, because it’s too effing hot to make bread. Every morning I have to pick the hard-as-rocks cranberries out of my cereal.
- Charred barbecued pizzas. I made the crust by hand, simmered the sauce for hours, and then managed to burn the pizzas in 4 minutes on the barbecue. We peeled off the doughy tops and ate those.
- Wild rice and broccoli casserole in the slow cooker (pre-explosion!). This dish was the perfect manifestation of “meh”. The best that Ryan could come up with is, “It’s filling.”
- Soggy Chinese cabbage salad because I couldn’t find organic ramen noodles so I subbed in sesame snack mix. These do not hold up well with dressing. The dish because even more of a fail when you accidentally buy the honey mustard flavoured sesame snack mix.
The only good that has come from this is that every time I complete a dish that is sub-par I feel like a failure. And every time I feel like a failure I think of Charlie Brown. And thinking of Charlie Brown makes me think of Arrested Development‘s parody of the Charlie Brown walk. And, obviously, Arrested Development makes me happy.
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Tags: barbecued pizza, broccoli wild rice casserole, Chinese cabbage salad, homemade ganola
I know the feeling THOUGH I do have a fantastic lettuce wraps recipe that I could share
I love Arrested as well.