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May 11, 2006
From the Archives- How not to plate a dessert
I mentioned that I'd post some "greatest hits" while I'm out of town, but this might have to qualify as a "greatest miss."
It was delicious, but I think it's important to have some humility as a cook, and to always be aware that a potential disaster is right around the corner! As you become a better cook, you have more tools in your bag to mitigate a disaster and even create something new and cool out of it.
Er, this wasn't one of those times...
My cowboy cupcake recipe was posted here.
The original post follows:
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!
Posted by The Pragmatic Chef at May 11, 2006 8:35 AM
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Comments
"Nuke the moon"
That's the first thing that pops into my head with that pic.
Posted by: Chris at May 11, 2006 9:19 PM
Ain't that the thing Richard Dreyfuss built in that movie about aliens?
Posted by: Julie at May 11, 2006 10:19 PM
I think you're both right.
Posted by: the pragmatic chef at May 12, 2006 7:09 AM
I look at this and I think: is it upside down? am I looking at it the wrong way? what has happened here?
Posted by: Ana at May 17, 2006 8:14 AM
It's kind of fascinating, isn't it? It's just so wrong...
Posted by: the pragmatic chef™ at May 17, 2006 8:23 AM
[comment obliterated]
Sorry ... I mispoke :)
Posted by: Diana at May 17, 2006 5:22 PM