I had to post this, just because it cracked me up. I have to plead high alcohol consumption, plus this was the last course of a 6 1/2 hour meal yesterday.
This is the Cowboy Cupcake I was working on last week, with vanilla whipped cream, and a reduction of apricot, ancho, honey, lemon juice and cinammon in a squirt bottle.
It was amazing, even if it looks like a bomb went off. I knew it was going to be problematic putting whipped cream around a hot soufflé. I was going to freeze the bottom plates and just put a blob on the plate with the apricot reduction but never got around to it, so I just plopped it all together and called it good.
I'll post the Cowboy Cupcake recipe if you ask nicely...
Do you have a food disaster story? Let's hear it!
Heh, looks like something else too.
My story isn't so much a disaster as it is something that just shouldn't happen, in nature or otherwise.
About 11 years ago I was really getting in to shallow frying meat. I got really good at chicken, duh. Anyway, one find and dandy afternoon I found myself with the urge to fry and had only a rack of pork ribs. You can probably see where I'm going with this. I sliced off about a half dozen good victims and put them in an egg wash, then flour and in to the hot shallow oil. And thus was born, Country Fried Pork Ribs ala Biggles. My wife was brave enough to try a few bites and remarked it was 'good', but so utterly wrong. It was too rich, filled you up in a few bites. Oddly enough, I agreed and that was the last we saw of the Country Fried Pork Ribs ala Biggles.
Me.
I murdered my mother's cuban beans last night by absent-mindedly adding a liberal teaspoon of curry rather than a liberal teaspoon of cumin. HOW THE DEVIL DID YOU MISS THE SMELL? Well, I didn't, really. I just ignored my nose. Which one should not do when one is cooking. Non. And sometimes I go on burning spells when nothing made with heat is safe. We eat a lot of salads during those times. And I just can't figure that one out.
It's hell being human, I guess. I'm glad I posted that picture, I think the whole food world just gets over the top on the perfection thing. It tasted amazing, live and learn I say.
You have seen this right?
Ana, as someone schooled in the finest French style of cooking, I am appalled at sites such as this!
[snickers]