This is a little baby rant, be it new stove learning curve, a new brand of flour, trying a ton of new recipes or just plain old Baking Mojo, I have been very hit and miss this past week, some things have come out perfect, and others.. well.. let just say, thank goodness for the hounds!
I tried a new black bean recipe.. O I will not be passing it on, it was not even, see if I could fix it, it was a Fail in the cookbook, a Don’t make again and the hounds lapped it up for dinner as I had made a full crock pot of this dish.
Then there was the cake that would not hold its structure, I did my typical switch out tricks for apple sauce and it was the most gumpy cake, it tasted ok but it was like under cooked bread pudding.. the hounds loved it, it should have been called a hush puppy, because they did the rub of joy afterwards, while I snarled at losing a full pan of cake.
Then came the rhubarb crumble that was so tart (I forgot the sugar yikes) that hubby had one bite and passed it back to me.. That one I fixed and eat myself but it was certainly not up to par, I had tried a mix of my mom’s new trick of use orange juice in the crumb and then online it had said, used dried orange peel and orange juice mix, and I thought sure, that sounds yummy.. NOT.. it was was barely good enough..
Tried and True recipes are coming out, but its not a week for my typical farmgal winging it.. Its made me think about if I would be willing to take as many cooking risks as I do, if I knew that food had to be dinner, that there was nothing to replace it.. I don’t think I would, I would stick to very tried and true recipes in that case.
Just another Day on the Farm 
I’m not *nearly* as experimental as you are because unless it’s truly unedible, it’s to be eaten. (The time I dumped 2 tablespoons cayenne into the stew, Mr D agreed to tossing the “leftovers”.)
Sorry you’ve had a bad baking week. 😦
Wow that would have been hot, I guess having the hounsd, the chickens or the pig means I can play a bit more then most, still nothing like following a recipes, having something take all day to make and then feeling like just spitting it out at your first taste, I learned I really don’t the taste of those beans, so odd, as there are so many I do like..
Maybe the bowl kitty stole your mojo! I actually laughed out loud when I read that, I can so relate. 🙂 I hate when the baking gods are grumpy, it always seems to happen all at once. Back when I was baking for the fairs I would have days that nothing would go right and I would come *this* close to drop kicking pies off the front porch.
P.s. Did you get the last zombie update?
Yup, I hear you on the drop kick!
I did get the last zombie update, and I read it and sent a big thankyou your way in my head an was a bad girl for not getting it sent back on the email.
No need to remove it! my love of the walking dead TV show, and zombies movies, and books is known 🙂 I also like vampire and werewolvies, and most supernatural’s for that matter.. I know and understand all the in jokes in the Big Bang Show, DH and I like to get our geek on now and again…
PPS You can edit out that last part if you want. 🙂