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Posts from the ‘Disappointment’ Category

Dec 17

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Not for lack of effort or good intentions

Has it really been three weeks since I’ve posted? This full-on descent into winter has been quickly passing me by, full of holiday preparations and enjoying the new weather, six days spent bed-ridden with the worst cold I can remember, and, most notably for this venue, a sustained spell of culinary disappointments. Often when I don’t post for a while I add an assurance that there has been plenty to share and write about, just no time to do it – but not this time. This evening all I have to report is three weeks of strange, underwhelming, and/or otherwise unsharable adventures in the kitchen.

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Apr 19

Maybe I should try something other than pasta …

It’s happened again. Another dish made for the purposes of the list, another thing I’m not ready to share because it just wasn’t that great. (Another use of the “disappointment” tag I started to give myself a chuckle and was hoping wouldn’t surface again.) It didn’t make me immediately made me scroll through my mental calendar to figure out when I could make again, which is what normally happens with the items I write about. Read more

Mar 30

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Who doesn’t love salty glue pasta sauce?

So, it happened. I knew it would. I accomplished something new on the list, but it was not nearly good enough to share here. Not that it was my fault, no no.

You see: A few days ago I picked one of our cookbooks off the shelf – one that had me skeptical to begin with, seeing as 1) the title consists only of the name of a food item, followed by “the 100 best recipes,” 2) the publisher is a large bookstore chain, and 3) the only two words about the author in the entire book are her first and last name, which you see only on the cover (not even in the copyright information). You know the kind of cookbook I’m talking about – the large, glossy things that breed in clearance racks under the fluorescent lights of chain bookstores. Read more

Oct 5

A warning

I’m posting this because making new cocktails is on my Food List, but this might be the first and only time I ever post something with the explicit direction NOT to make it. Please don’t make this cocktail.

It sounded really bizarre, but we figured we might as well try it and see what happened. But it was weird and confusing in my mouth. After both the first and second sips, Brett and I stood in the kitchen at a loss for words. The sweetness of the cognac, the mint, and the sparkling water consistency were just WRONG together, in so many ways.

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Cognac Stinger

  • 2 oz. cognac
  • 1 oz. creme de menthe
  • 2 splashes sparkling water

– Shake the cognac and creme de menthe in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass and add the sparkling water.

Please don’t make me think about this drink any more.