Just a few more days left of 2017 so I thought over these next couple days I’ll share with you the best recipes of the year as well as some of my recipe fails of the year. We’ll start with my recipe fails.
Most of the photos on my blog are curated so that they’re the best of the ones I have and the most enticing. Because how else am I supposed to convince you and everyone else to try my recipe, right? But what you generally don’t see, except maybe in my InstaStory, where my dishes can be disasters in the making. I just wanted to share my fails so that you know it’s not always perfect.
Some of them aren’t too bad while others are… well…. You can judge for yourself.
I tried making paella earlier this year. While the flavor was delicious, I tried making this twice and both times, the rice came out too mushy.
I tried making shrimp skewers on a grill plate on the stove. The shrimp refused to cook.
Cheesecake. This is what happens when you don’t add enough butter to bind the graham cracker crumbs. Um… Also when you forget to add sugar to the cream cheese portion and it is ridiculously tart.
S’mores fail. The marshmallow was so gigantic I couldn’t keep them together. And every time it came out of the oven, the entire thing fell apart.
I’m not even sure what this was. Some sort of peach drink. But it wasn’t flavorful at all.
I tried to make blueberry scones, and somehow it became scone cookies.
A raw cranberry relish experiment for Thanksgiving tasted gross and way too tart.
Remember these sparkling sugar coated cranberries from a few weeks ago? This is what it looks like when you coat them with brown sugar. Not as pretty.
These potstickers aren’t my own recipes, but I was trying to make potstickers for dinner. I was so hungry after work, I walked away for a minute to snack and came back to this. Sadness.
These cookie cups were a complete fail. I could not remove them from the muffin tins!
Um… the night before Christmas we tried to bake sugar cookies and decorate them. And um…. What happens when the dough is too soft and it gets stuck in the cookie cutter.
Hope you enjoyed my 2017 recipe fails! These aren’t all of the recipes I failed at, but these are the ones that I remember to document. You’ll definitely find more behind the scenes on my Instagram page. I’ll post my best recipes next. =)
And if you want to see more recipe fails from previous years, click on the links below.
I know we all have recipe fails, but you have many many many beautiful things you share with us! So elegant the way you present your work! I love your blog! Here is to a Happy New Year of recipe success and also fails too! Hugz Lisa!
Thanks, Lisa!
I think the blueberry scone cookies could become a thing 🙂
What a refreshing post! Most pictures in blog land are near perfect. I have never seen such a pale sad looking gingerbread man! This is the perfectly human side of blogland. We rarely get to see the goofs! When you fail in the kitchen, it makes you wiser. Such great wisdom you have achieved!
makes me feel better about my cooking, pretty much a trial and error process. ) i love all of your beautiful food and know i now have potential too )
Cooking is always a trial and error process for me. lol. Most of the time if I’m cooking just for me, I don’t always measure. But when it’s for the blog, you can’t really say a little of this and a little of that. lol
Well we grow from our mistakes 😉 Can’t wait to see your best recipes!
Presentation is a distant second to actual taste, so I would remove dishes like Paella and S’mores from the fail column. Looks like your pot stickers were so authentic, they got stuck to the pot along with the cookie-stickers. 😉
I’v noticed that most of them are deserts, desserts are always the hardest to master, but i defiantly enjoy making them the most
Cookies are the worst for me!
i’v been doing this chocolate chips cookies recipe for a year now, whenever i make it, everyone loves it! you have to give it a try, plus it’s a bit healthier than other recipes out there https://amyshealthybaking.com/blog/2017/05/09/the-ultimate-healthy-soft-chewy-egg-free-chocolate-chip-cookies/
on the same site you will find other types of cookies to be inspired from, Amy is truly an awesome baker
That’s funny. Check my paella recipe 😊 I find less stock is better than more. That way if you find the rice is still not cooked you just add more stock in and cook for a bit longer.
Thanks for the smiles, Andrea – that much more what my cooking looks like when it comes out of the oven! 🙂
Thanks for sharing this. It’s rather funny. I guess everyone had a few failures before getting something right. It makes us better at what we are doing 🙂
Happy 2018!!