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More proof I’m no Martha Stewart
When talking about food blogging, I always claim to blog about my missteps in the kitchen, but I don’t think I’ve actually documented a full-blown failure like the one I created/experienced last weekend.
The rain on Saturday had me in a baking mood, so I put together a pizza dough for the food blogger potluck and then embarked on a mission to recreate these beautiful buttermilk fantails that Boots in the Oven made from a Gourmet recipe.
Problem was, I made the dough on Saturday, including all the rounds of rising, but realized I wanted to serve them freshly baked on Sunday. So I assembled the fantails, covered them with a kitchen towel and put them in the fridge. By the time I put them in the oven the next morning, I knew I wasn’t going to get the fluffy beautiful fantails my friends had produced.
Sure enough, I pulled them out and they were pretty pitiful looking fantails. After photographing them and realizing no respectable foodie would serve them at a food blogger potluck, I opened up a jar of honey and dug in. They were C- fantails at best, but honey makes even the worst baked goods seem indulgent.
Speaking of failures, I might as well show off a few of my less-than-blogworthy garden follies.
I accidentally broke off about half of the leaves on our zucchini plants when trying to remove the tomato cage I had placed on the plant when it was just a sproutling. I wasn’t sure the plant would survive with half its leaves gone, but a week later, it’s appearing strong and we’ve harvested two zucchinis, so I guess the damage isn’t as bad as I thought it would be.
Garden bugs ate nearly all of one of the kohlrabi plants, as well as many of the broccoli leaves. I think this particular kohlrabi plant isn’t going to make it, but we ate the broccoli floret this week. (More on that later…)
But, overall, we’re pretty happy with how the garden is coming along, bugs, ants, broken leaves, cilantro that’s gone to seed and all.
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By Waiting
May 21, 2009 9:36 AM | Link to this
Michael Barnes has teased us that you know something about Diana Kennedy and the UT Press — hopefully news about her new cookbook on Oaxaca. Por favor !
By scott
May 21, 2009 10:13 AM | Link to this
look at the bright side, cilantro that’s gone to seed = coriander
By coffee and queso
May 21, 2009 10:39 AM | Link to this
hey ms addie: the garden is looking great! if it’s any consolation, i planted my cukes and cantaloupe nearly on top of each other and then almost killed them all trying to transplant when i’d realized my folly! i think they’re coming back… fingers crossed.