Showing posts with label recipe disaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipe disaster. Show all posts

Friday, February 27, 2009

Not quite how I imagined it...

Since Charming worked two jobs and had a night class last night, we celebrated his birthday today. Included in this celebration is always the homemade cake as requested. Charming and Valiant are just about complete opposites and birthday cakes were no different. Both like yellow cakes, but Valiant likes chocolate frosting and Charming likes white frosting. Where Valiant likes just "a little bit of frosting, Mom", Charming says, "I want a LOT of frosting, Mom." So, I tried, I really, really tried...and, well, it didn't go so well. The top of the cake kept sliding off the bottom...I even put uncooked spaghetti noodles in to add stability, to no avail. So, while the cake tasted good and, from one angle, looked okay...
















...this is what it really looked like!















How sad is that?

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Ugh...it didn't turn out well...

I just made the most disgusting chili. The kids were kind, but it turned out terribly. It turned out spicy, sweet...like spicy spaghetti sauce. (Buttercup even suggested I not start with spaghetti sauce next time. Excuse me? I didn't start with spaghetti sauce!) I followed the recipe exactly. Blech! Superman ate it cheerfully (he even had seconds!), but let us not forget he was in the Army. Back to the drawing board.