I think it’s important that you all know something about what comes out of my kitchen: it ain’t all pretty folks. Not every creation that comes out of my kitchen is pretty, polished and ready for its blog debut. The reality is that I have my fair share of flops, dropped eggs, burned butter and dirty dishes… I just don’t usually show those kitchen tidbits with you. Tricky, right?
Today is your lucky day. Here’s a peek at the flops, disasters and otherwise icky recipes I’ve tried and trashed.
Chilled Blueberry Soup. Ok, seriously. Who are you trying to fool? This was just an elaborate recipe for blueberry juice. You tricked me and I resent you Blueberry Soup. This won’t be soon forgotten.
Low Fat Chocolate Mousse with tofu. I think I over whipped the eggs with this little darling. It was so thick and tough just all around noooooooot cute.
Greek Yogurt Frozen Yogurt. I wanted to love you, but holy heck you were thick and rich. Too thick. Too rich.
This Nectarine Cobbler overflowed… big time… while I was one the phone. There was screaming and cursing… mostly because I should have known better.
You were supposed to be a fresh peach scone. Instead you decided to be a bland peach cookie… that’s just not good enough.
Ooooh Cinnamon Rolls. You didn’t fail me. I love you.
Chocolate Chip Potato Chip Cookies. I must have eaten a cool dozen of these cookies trying to decide if they were good or not. I knew with each cookie that they were absolute rubbish. Bleck.
Apricot Scones. Flat and beige Apricot Scones. Note to self: figure out how to make scones. Seriously, how have you not mastered this yet Joy?
Avocado Milkshake. Boooooring picture plus do not like. The photo and taste gods were not with me on this day. For this, and for all of these recipes that I tried and failed.. well, I suppose I just have to shrug my shoulders and laugh you off. Thanks for the lessons… and the memories?
Margaret
They have an avocado drink in Indonesia (Java). It comes with a layer of chocolate, and you mix it. It’s intriguing and pretty, but it was way to thick and gooey for me. The local people LOVE this drink.
Erika from The Pastry Chef At Home
I’m so late commenting here (I only recently found your site). You are a brave woman for posting your recipe flops. I usually bury my failed recipes deep in a file called “You are a Pastry Chef So Why Did You Make This Crap?” And there are plenty of failures because I like to play with classic recipes just to see what happens!
Michelle from Taste As You Go
Although they must have been frustrating as they were happening, I love how you can look back and recognize the humor in your baking failures. Better yet, you know which recipes you want to try again and which recipes you want to bury in a deep hole in the backyard. Thanks for sharing your “flops,” for admitting that not every recipe will be a “winner,” and for encouraging all of us to keep at it!
Leigh Ann
LOL I can not tell you how many times I have tasted and tasted something, knowing FULL WELL that it was not good enough to do anything with or share with anyone, and that I did not really want to eat it… and it’s doubly bad because afterwards you don’t even feel like the calories were *worth* anything. Geez. It’s one of the (few) curses of baking, I suppose. Thanks for sharing :)
sarah
Here is my tutorial on scones: https://syrupandhoney.typepad.com/blog/2009/07/scones.html
This isn’t the food network my friend, we’re all messing up stuff in the kitchen all over the place! My next post is actually going to be about some banana bread I completely screwed up but can’t figure out how. Seriously, banana bread?
mharper
Hey, you gotta take the bad with the good, right? I love hearing about the flops as well as the masterpieces. :)
Becs
Opps forgot to say that lemonade and cream scones are easy and taste the best https://shadowfoot.com/recipe/lemonade-scones . Also the best possible flop you can have which happens quite literally is when a Pavlova falls :( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlova_%28food%29 .
Becs
Ellie Krieger has a really great Chocolate Tofu Mousse Recipe https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ellie-krieger/dark-chocolate-mousse-recipe/index.html , it has never failed me. I love not to tell people what its made out of and only tell them after they have eaten it all!!!
Beatrice
Best. Scones. Ever. For reals.
S
Joy, you’re an awesome baker! I love baking too, and yeah I know about flops. Sometimes I just get excited about experimenting, and uhh…things don’t taste very good. I’ve made my first scones last week, and they were okay, but I guess I’m not a scone person. I used this recipe though and it was easy! (I froze butter the night before and grated it into the flour mixture and froze it again before adding the liquids/raisins. I used vanilla yogurt instead of sour cream.) Maybe you didn’t add enough baking powder? Or rolled out/kneaded too much? Good luck! Oh, also, Deb from smittenkitchen’s recipe looks really good too, as someone suggested earlier.
https://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Worlds-Best-Scones-From-Scotland-to-the-Savoy-to-the-US/Detail.aspx
sandi @ the whistlestop cafe
I have posted several of my flops as well… not everything comes out perfect. (believe it or not)
Christina
Hey Joy, I love you, you’re great. But can I ask a favor? Could you possibly create a recipe index of all of your recipes on the site? I don’t know anything about blogging, so I don’t know how hard this is. I hope I’m not asking the impossible. I absolutely love your site and I would cook more of your recipes if I could browse them all in one place. Thanks!
Rachel
Do you freeze your scones before you bake them? You probably already know this, but it helps them keep their shape instead of melting and spreading.
Luci
Oh my god, I love you!
Not only do you have the most awesome recipes (none of your recipes that I’ve tried has ever flopped on me, ever) but you’re also a human being. I think that’s the best thing about your blog- you don’t try to sound all overly professional and perfect. You don’t mind sharing little weaknesses and mistakes and imperfections with us. I admire your honesty. This is real, this is you and you’re not changing yourself to impress anyone.
I am so, so, SO glad I found this blog. For reals. ;)
Thank you.
Chrys
It’s nice to hear about the flops especially from great cooks and bakers such a yourself. Thank you for sharing and confirming that it’s normal to have failures in the kitchen.
Meghan
I make scones all the time (though, for the last few years, from a mix). I think they are better a little dry. Then I can plie on the clotted cream (which I do make from scratch) and jam. so good. :)
Candice
I grew up drinking avocado milkshake and eating avocado ice cream as a child! Avocados in a savory dish? Still tastes weird to me….opposites eh?
Chelsey Green
Love you blog…This post shows how mistakes happen! I made you red velvet cookies the other day, tasted delicious…didnt loook to pretty though :/ any tips?
Check out my blog!!
Chelsey
jilly
i love this post – i’m new to your site, but just love it. the only scones i’ve made that are consistently light and fluffy (i live at altitude) are ina’s dried strawberry scones. these are gorgeous, although i haven’t yet tried your commentor’s suggestion of smitten kitchen/ci’s scones. those will be next, just to compare with ina’s.
Kate D
Wish I could have tried your avocado milkshake! Totally understand your hatred of that blueberry soup — I raged at Gourmet after I tried a watermelon soup that ended up dreadful and making my entire kitchen sticky. Those kitchen failures teach us, though — sometimes more than the successes… Thanks for sharing your flop file!
Vicki
I have had such a love/hate relationship with Marth Stewart since a friend gave me Pies and Tarts over twenty years ago because obviously everything she, or her thirty stylists, touch turn out perfect, I didn’t realize I was falling into the same trap with cooking blogs. You are such a breath of fresh air!
Funny FYI-my little golden retriever puppy chomped the corner of the book while in the book case with his tiny teething teeth. Martha came to my hometown on a tour and I had her autograph this book, because my friend had inscribed “Pull up your bootstraps. Love Martha” when life was teething on me. Martha was not amused.
LucyLang
Love this post! I’m glad that better bakers mess up in the kitchen. Last week, while hanging out with close friend and her friends, close friend said to the group “Lucy’s a great baker.” And I replied “Yes, yes I am.”
Ummm, but then… later that day I massively failed at two muffin recipes. Because of my ridiculously cheap pans and a stove that overcooks, I had to turn the chocolate chip muffins into bread (my safety muffin) at the last minute and my orange poppyseed muffins were too brown around the sides. On top of cooking awkwardly they both tasted bad. I didn’t even know chocolate chip anything could taste bad. *sigh*
Then this week I was successful at cooking really bland strawberry ricotta cheese muffins to perfection.
All I want is a good muffin I take to work for a snack! Is this so wrong!?!
My First Kitchen
Great stuff. Kitchen vulnerability is possibly the best kind. And while you can rock out the cakes and cookies and pies, scones are actually one of the few baking things I can do well. If you’re ever in the southeast, I’ll trade you a scone party for… hmmm… pretty much anything you want to teach/cook for me. I know; it’s a tempting offer.
Danielle
Try the Barefoot Contessa’s recipe for cranberry orange scones – they were easily the most delicious thing i’ve ever baked! I promise you won’t be disappointed (:
Kerstin
What a cute post :) Good to know I’m not the only one makes mistakes in the kitchen!
The Purple Foodie
We all have our moments, don’t we? Was fun going through that list. Tofu is mousse? I can never try lot fat :P And potato chips in biscuits? You’re one brave girl, Joy!
Carla
It makes me freel good to know that I’m not the only one who makes mistakes or has recipes flop sometimes!
I have a fabulous scone recipe, though, and I’m planning on sharing it on my blog soon…so please stop by!
Jessica
Haha I guess you are a little bit like the rest of us after all!!
Lauren
this makes feel better, your blog is always so full of great things, i feel like i have many more ‘cutting room floor’ episodes at home than real post-able food, good to see that i’m not the only one :)
Dana
I think you are just so adorable. Reading your blog is like chatting with a friend. I am burning with envy about all those people who get to meet you in person and have cupcakes with you.
By the way, I may have missed it—did you go to your High School Reunion?
Thanks for a yummy (and human!) blog.
vina
i made banana bread today to send to my sister out of the country. i baked it in one of those disposable pans. it looked so nice and pretty when i took it out. the toothpick i inserted in the middle looked clean, but when i cut it it was still mushy in the middle! that’s the second time i’ve done that! not cool!
DebbieQ
Ah you give the rest of us hope. But….avocado milkshake? Just the thought makes me shiver.
Mélanie
Wow, it’s a hard world for cookies and desserts of any kind. The selection to be on your blog looks pretty tough! :)
angela
avocado milkshakes are easy!
its like..one or two avocados
a couple scoop(s) of vanilla ice cream (or a couple tablespoons of condensed milk..however sweet you want it)
and milk! (however thick you want it)
yum :D
i like mine with condensed milk, and my dad crushes in ice to make it all cold, but you can pop it in the fridge and that’d do the same thing without watering it down later on :)
Erika
Love this post! Avocado milkshake was bad? Or just not your thing? Next time you venture to SF, visit Mitchell’s Ice Cream on San Jose Ave. (not far from Misson/Caesar Chavez area), they have the best avocado ice cream, which makes for a great avocado shake.
Madeleine
I loved this post, and I adore your blog, and I think that you’re just lovely! Thank you for the out-takes. I don’t feel quite so bad about my battle to make madeleine cookies work in my not-so-friendly oven.
Ang
Well, for the scones. I really dislike using a pastry blender to cut in the butter – so I just take the cold butter and using my box grater – grate it into the recipe, then hand mix it in and then add wet ingredients. It works every time, even with rolling it out. The bits of butter melt in the scone. Very yummy. Glad to know that I am not the only one that burns things, makes messes in the oven and have total flops that my husband says, “You don’t have to make this one again.” Thanks for sharing.
Debbi
I make scones often, and never heard of ‘rolling’ them! Maybe that’s why yours are flat! As for failures, since I pretty much use recipes I get from YOU, my little muse, I haven’t had one in a while!!! However, there was the gorgeous 3 layer chocolate cake that I made, put in the fridge to ‘set’, and upon opening said fridge 2 hours later, discovered the top 2 layers laying alongside the plate they had slid off!!! How much fun it was cleaning chocolate pudding/frosting off the shelf for over an hour!!! You’re still the best…..outtakes be damned!!!
Kristen
Love this post – now we all know that you aren’t perfect. I feel like we can officially hang out now ;)
tj
…Yay! You’re one of us! lol… :o)
…Thanks for sharing this Joy!
…Blessings…
Katie
What a great idea for a post! It’s nice to be reminded that for every perfect recipe and picture, there’s one that wasn’t so perfect – we’re all human of course! :D
Lucia
Thank you for sharing. And I made scones that looked just like that. I think it was that the recipe called for self rising flour and I put in all purpose by mistake. : (
steph (whisk/spoon)
hahaha–this was too funny! i have more than my share of lousy flops or things that just come out plain ugly… but i get so irritated that i delete their pictures immediately, so i never have to think of them again!
Dani
I think the blueberry soup is my favorite part! I once tried to make an apple frittata for a brunch that I was hosting. All I will say is that the eggs didn’t set up, the apple lost it’s flavor and became chewy, and I had to whip up some good old scrambled eggs, STAT! Thanks for reminding us all that even the best chefs (or bakers!) have bad days in the kitchen!
When Pigs Fly
Thanks for making the rest of us feel better. And, my scones sometimes end up looking and tasting like hockey pucks. It should not be so difficult.
amanda
In search of the best scone EVER? Try the cream scones Deb has up on Smitten Kitchen from CI. I will never bake another type of scone again. It’s all about the heavy cream (https://smittenkitchen.com/2006/11/dream-a-little-dream-of-scone/). With dried apricots, I’d imagine they’d be out of this world.
snooky doodle
well this is surely intersting! than even masters make flops!
Food Hunter
This is a great post…thanks for sharing.
Sagan
Oh- so you ARE human after all!
:)
Victoria
Blueberry soup, reminds me I had chocolate soup at a very fancy restaurant the other week. I had to try it, where else was that goingt o happen? It was served with a scoop of coconut sorbet floating in it, and a quenelle of carrot and coriander somethingorother. The coconut sorbet was awesome. The carrot and coriander puree was yum. The chocolate soup was.. well, I think it would have been better hot and in a cup, with a squirt of whipped cream on top. It wasn’t overly sweet, and it was very chocolatey… but..hm, no.
But, at least I tried it, and that’s all you can ever want really!
Patty
Thanks so much for sharing these flop stories, Joy! I admire all the incredible creations you bust out in the kitchen, but do appreciate your modesty and honesty! We (at zomppa.com) can’t get enough of your candid conversation and adorable commentary. If you’d ever like to guest blog on our website, we’d be totally honored! Take good care. Patty
Millie
lol! What a great way to start my morning after delivering samples of my stuff! The brownies I delivered made me a little annoyed. They’ve been sinking in the middle. >.< I have to say that the thing I have issues with is pie crust. My mom can do it without thinking of it and it always comes out fine. Mine always ends up too sticky, too dry, etc, and I always end up cursing and calling my mom for advice. lol. I also made five different kinds of scones yesterday and was about to point you to my blog, but I see Matthew did that for me. *blush* I agree with the others, though. Even your flops look good. Thank you for sharing! =)
m-vic
It’s nice to see that not everything is so nice and perfect all the time – one of the best things about this blog is how approachable it is. You’re in good company, too:
https://jezebel.com/5329798/childs-play-the-temptation-of-eve-a-disaster
That’s a clip of how Julia Child dealt with a tarte tatin that didn’t come out right.
sarah
i tried potato chip cookies one time…except the only chips i had on hand were pringles and they don’t count! (low potato percentage or something) they were soggy and GROSS. i kept eating and eating them hoping that they would taste better but they never did!
Rachel
I had a big flop the other day…I made 200 cookies for my sister’s bridal shower (a recipe which I’ve made before with great success) and they were totally mediocre. Bad, even. It was awful. And now I have to make 200 more because the shower is on Sunday!
Anyway, I thought I’d pass along this scone recipe. So delicious, and SO easy. She has another variation in her book with lemon zest and crystallized ginger, if you have it.
https://orangette.blogspot.com/2004/08/i-took-deep-breaths.html
Graciela
I thought maybe that first pic was biscotti and that is one thing I just cannot make. They always get burnt or taste burnt. I don’t even like biscotti that much, I just wanted to say that I could do it. But I can make scones. :-)
The mousse with the tofu actually looks kinda good to me.
Linda
Your still perfect to me! It’s nice knowing though that not all recipes work no matter how good the cook. Sometimes I think its me …
Sassy Molassy
Thanks for sharing with us joy! Good to know everyone has their flubs in the kitchen. :)
PhillyGirl
Ah, failures.. without them we wouldn’t have so many successes. Keep up the good work!
ann
ooh, avocado milkshake. I had an amazing avocado daquiri once that then I spent WEEKS trying to replicate (the bartender wouldn’t share his secret). so, essentially, I had many bad avocado milkshakes with alcohol. I feel your pain.
Koriann
I thought I would pass on a scone recipe that was pretty simple and produced great results (my 10 yo sister couldn’t get enough!). As far as I can tell, it’s pretty hard to screw up. :)
https://www.raincitykitchen.com/2009/06/whole-wheat-apple-scones.html
lauren
great post! among my many flops, the worst was fresh mozzarella stuffed turkey meatballs (grilled on skewers). my husband told me over and over there would be no way for them to survive. i insisted and told him that *a particular celebrity chef* would not let me down. low and behold, they fell apart on the grill and looked like a horrible disgusting mess. he will not let me live it down… ever.
Matthew
Thank you for the confidence boost — it’s comforting to know that even great experienced bakers have their flops too. I was a bit bummed because I had my first real bad one (I’m still kind of new to this) with some molasses cookies night… It sort of turned into an over crunchy pancake of molassesness and was pretty much inedible.
In terms of scones, a friend posted this for me and everyone around here loved them and even I could make them. I bet you could make them even better!
https://fwog19.livejournal.com/16651.html
Jack
You are awesome for posting these failures, Joy. Makes me less upset about my own.
(Each time I make cobbler now, I set it on a cookie tray with foil, I’m not taking any chances because I hate cleaning my oven.)
Fallon
It happens to everyone!!
Linda Y
thanks for sharing your ups & downs with us…it feels good!
i have baked “sweet molly’s cookies” from “adventures in the kitchen”….using potato chips and butterscotch chips & my friends are always asking for more~
https://adventuresinthekitchen.com/2009/03/sweet-mollys-cookies/
Irina @ PastryPal
HaHa, great post. I like to think of stuff like that as “experiments.” The mistakes can be better fodder for learning than perfect results, me thinks. I’ve thrown away my fair share of dough, too. Just recently I had to dump a brioche dough because I forgot to add salt. I couldn’t have imagined how imperative salt is to a dough, in both flavor and rise, but now I’ll never forget! :)
Miss Kitty
I love that you shared this. Sometimes you see people’s amazing food blogs and think they never make a mistake. This makes me just love your blog even more!!
{lauryl}
I’m not a fan of Americanized scones, they’re too dry and crumbly. British scones taste more like shortbread, hard on the outside but buttery and soft on the inside. Here’s the recipe for scones from Lacock bakery in Lacock, England. I’ve made a lot of different modifications to it over the years, but this could be a good starting point for you! https://aestheticpursuits.blogspot.com/2009/07/schoones.html
GS
Joy, thanks for the confession! It’s actually very encouraging to know everyone has a flop now and then, not just me. BTW, I once came thisclose to catching my microwave on fire!
Shushmi
as with everyone above I really liked this post – it’s really sweet of you to share your failures with us as well as every kitchen triumph! For some reason it helps to know that someone as good at baking as you are can get things wrong every now and again too!
That blueberry ‘soup’ made me giggle! x
Whistlepea
It seems like maybe you’re rolling your scones out too thin?
Missy
oh how I want some greek yogurt frozen yogurt – but I too can’t figure that one out. Super suckage!
Loved this entry Joy – you always bring a smile to my face. :)
Nakiya
Hahahaha thank you for sharing this post – I loved it!!!!
“Chocolate Chip Potato Chip Cookies. I must have eaten a cool dozen of these cookies trying to decide if they were good or not. I knew with each cookie that they were absolute rubbish. Bleck. ”
This sounds exactly like me!
FoodieCrystal
I don’t like to think of them as flops, I like to think they are learning experiences… unless it is the 10th time that it has happened, then I like to call it forgetfulness. If it weren’t for flops (I mean learning experiences) we wouldn’t appreciate how often things actually turn out ‘just right’. And we wouldn’t learn about what works and what doesn’t. It is after a flop that we say, I should have done this… and try something that works. Or decide that we will never again try that type of thing. Thanks for sharing!
As far as scones, I am definately not an expert, but I find that when I brush the tops with some water and sprinkle with sugar, or brush with honey, they tend to become more golden on top. But like I said, I’m not an expert, I don’t make them that often.
I just started following your blog about 2 weeks ago, and have loved your posts so far!
Vicki
My husband and I love choco chip potato chip cookies! Don’t know if it’s the same recipe, but they were delish.
katie
I have often wondered about the recipes for potato chip cookies. Book marked a recipe and never got around to them. Great post thanks for letting us see your mistakes!
Heather
Such good news to hear that even you have flops – makes me feels better!! Love this post by the way – I laughed the whole way through on your take on things. Funny!
bakingepiphanies
what a great idea for a post, so much fun! and man, i have the same problem with scones – they always come out beige and raw-tasting…what’s the deal?!
Glenda
Good to know, even the best bakers have disasters and off days. Makes me feel a little better about my mini apple pie fail this week.
Noreen
Good to know that all your recipes don’t turn out lovely & perfect – even though a vast majority look (and probably taste) fabulous, fabulous!! My downfall is usually I envision this magnificent masterpiece & when it comes out oozed over and burnt up I basically just want to cry!! Yea for cooking!!
arugulove
For scones, try the Confessions of a Tart blog…her strawberry scone recipe is magical. It’s incredibly easy and I’ve made them a bunch of times now with no problem. The recipe is so basic and easy, that it can be adapted without problem – I used it as a guideline in making savory cheddar dill scones.
Here’s mine, and a link to hers is in this blog post.
https://arugulove.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/a-hearty-breakfast/
Good luck!
joythebaker
Thanks for the scone love you guys! Maybe I am rolling them out too thin! I’ll give your recipes a go! I need to get over this problem… and fast!
I’m so glad you guys like this post. I also (forgive me) love hearing about your kitchen flops too. Is that bad?
You all are great! I’m so glad you’re here!
MelissaJane
It’s an interesting thing; the best cooks and pastry chefs I know each have their own private bete noir. And usually, they are seemingly simple things, things other people master approximately right after boiling water. Me – and I’m a retired professional pastry chef – it’s shortbread. Love to eat it, can’t make it to save my damn life. Comes out grainy or falls apart or tastes funny – you’d be amazed at all the ways that one person can screw up shortbread. My friend who is a fantastic cook cannot cook a potato. No matter what she does, they’re inedible. This is a woman whose Christmas Eve dinner every year is Beef Wellington wrapped in homemade puff pastry, but man, those potatoes suck.
So for you, Joy the Baker, scones are your bete noir. Welcome to the club.
Melanie
bahahhahahaa..blueberry soup.
Hilarious. Love this blog Joy! :)
jonquil
i have yet to come up with a decent irish soda bread. i mean, how simple is that? apparently not for me!
Angie @ Many Little Blessings
I love this post! Thanks so much for sharing your “out takes.” :)
Kristen
truly Joy, only one word comes to mind every day that I read you…precious!
-and that is high praise because only my three wee ones get that word used about them so consitently, so in my eyes, you are in pretty high company!
thanks for a smile this morning and many others!
debbie
What a fun post–I’m so glad to see I’m not the only one! My blog’s got a “failures” tag and everything. Sigh.
Sandy
You’re not perfect. It’s wrong to think, but it make me very happy to know this. I was beginning to worry that you were some sort of supernatural kitchen goddess. Whew. And your flops only make us admire and appreciate you more! Thank you for sharing. (OH and if you like, I have a very easy, highly delicious, pumpkin scone recipe)
tigress
hi joy,
i love this post! made me think about all the ‘could have beens’ on my blogs. thanks for all of the lovely posts and dishes, your blog is a joy to ready. :)
Romaine
You have me curious about the Greek yogurt ice cream since I make my own Greek yogurt all the time. See https://www.salad-in-a-jar.com/skinny-secrets/healthy-homemade-greek-yogurt. Where did you get the recipe?
Courtney
Oh, our dirty little secrets! I love this post. Thanks for the smile.
Marilyn
For my sisters wedding, I attempted to make a three tiered wedding cake. ALL of the cakes I made sank in the middle. I had used this recipe once before and it sank, but I had figured it was a fluke. I tried reducing the amounts of batter, slapping it and not slapping it on the counter a couple times, mixing barely, over mixing, reducing the temperature. My baking powders and sodas seemed active enough. Such a failure, but a consistent failure and my fault for trusting this recipe again. But, I cut the tops off and managed a cute chocolate two tiered cake with tiny white flower details.
Kim
I’m with the rest . . . Love this post! And the cinnamon rolls were a huge hit at work, I was asked to scribble your website onto several scraps of paper to pass on the Joy.
Evan
You are amazing! Thanks for showing us this stuff. Glad to know you have the same kitchen mishaps as the rest of us!
I wrote a little blurb about you in a special post on my blog: https://buttercakes.squarespace.com/blog/2009/8/2/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-things.html
Amy
I made a butter and shallot sauce to accompany a chicken dish a few weeks back. It came out purple. PURPLE! I followed the directions…or I thought I did.
Glad to see you’re human and one of us. (Even though we know that’s really not true.)
Jen @ MaplenCornbread
I love this!! I love the humble adventures and sharing them with us… I have so many flops behind the walls of my kitchen but the amount that come out successful make up for it, right?!
Ok those cinnamon rolls…. mmmmmmmmmmmm
Cate
This makes me feel so much better – an upside down cake I tried this weekend was a HUGE fail.
But avocado shakes can be really good!
Mags
It gives the rest of us great hope to know that you’re only human after all Joy. Such a lovely person you are.
Vanessa
It’s reassuring to know that nobody’s perfect. But even your failures don’t look bad to me. My biggest were the cupcakes which grew too much then collapsed and of course the potato gratin where the milk separated. Ugh!
Frank
You should see the sourdough bread I made this past weekend, it looked like a deflated whoopee cushion. Edible, I just sliced it horizontal instead. :-)
Frank
martina
How I love you!! You’re simply a very special normal person! Everyone has something to be embarrassed in the kitchen…and someway the most “perfect” one tries to fool us: but everyone knows the truth. You’re so pure to sharing with us every “failure” that everyone of us feels you Right. Thanks to bring me your joy…even when it’s not soo joyful!!
kisses
Martina