Fail 1
I usually don’t snap up food mistakes, but I’m going to start documenting the trial and error process here, I am not a food professional, or a professional cook…I have to learn the process from scratch (just like anyone else who is an amateur) because I don’t have the culinary school knowledge. To me, the food failures are an important part of the process, its where I learn when its just enough, too little, too much…the mistakes are the times I learn the most (obviously) and I think it’d be interesting to document that , thanks to everyone who commented that keep asking me if I fail, and to those of you urging me to document more of the failures..I will do so here. I don’t have a cooking background but I love to cook and have been cooking since I was young (for my family and friends) and most of my food knowledge is from watching cooking shows and reading cookbooks. A lot of it is also from experimenting / improvising.
This is the only fail image I documented for some reason but its from that egg nog post. These are actually the little egg shells I made, you see how there are little holes and they’re not completely close up at the edges..thats from me not placing the two molds exactly on top of eachother, so they create these little holes when you break the edges off. You can’t repair them, you have to just melt it back and start over. This was when I put it back on the double broiler to melt down the inferior eggs. I also had several of the bigger eggs with nog inside leak constantly..3-4 of them were leaking from the original egg mold, how funny would it have been to document that.
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January 9th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Bet it tasted good tho!!!
January 9th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
looks like butter. Nice to see that you’re human too ~^_^~
January 9th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
since i have read some people writing their (well i can say) dislikes about your ‘perfectness’- somewhere, i am so glad that you posted this… anyway, it’s unfair for those people to ‘judge’ you badly because you can do stuff well… you still rock no matter what, i love all your posts that revealed your creative sides, it’s faaaar more inspiring and interesting (to me and i bet for many others too), than just reading other people consumerism- and only that consumerism.
just an opinion from a random blog-reader though…
and please… keep up your awesome, awesome works, i’m so addicted!!!
January 9th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
No worries!
January 9th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
still looks delish….like vanilla ice cream.
i used to work as a charter yacht chef so i empathize (oh, the stories!) and as “they” say, everyone makes mistakes.
January 9th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
I love that you posted your mistakes. It is how you learn, ya know.
JD
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January 9th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
i l o v e your blog. its beautiful. no matter what you post. xox
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January 9th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
I love mistakes. Not quite so much making them, but learning from them. I know so many people who give up after just a couple of failures! To learn anything, to be good at anything!, you really do need to fail constantly.
January 9th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
wow, Luxirare makes mistakes………this is inspiring ♥
January 10th, 2010 at 10:17 am
the pic is awesome!!!!!! it capture what you need to say……!!!!!!
have a great week!!!!!
B!
xoxoxoxoxo
January 10th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
when we “fail”, we really just discover a way of not making what we want to make. does that make sense? lol, i like this section. love to see the process
January 11th, 2010 at 1:51 am
I think this is a beautiful photograph. Maybe sometimes the mistakes can be beautiful in their own right.
January 11th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
great post. i love food and i love to cook, but i definitely don’t consider myself a great cook. i’ve always wondered if great cooks have had any practice or if it just comes naturally to them (or some, at least). i feel like one must put a lot of passion into the cooking process in order to make a great meal, but when i try to do that i just get rushed as usual which is probably why i end up eating the same dishes over and over!
anyway, i think everyone has their own style and process and i enjoy seeing yours.
January 12th, 2010 at 3:45 am
Not that i could not appreciate all the hard work behind your posts without this… …but I think that this was a very healthy post! And the images are beautiful.
January 15th, 2010 at 4:27 am
you’re like a much more sleek julia child. the biography her nephew did with her is really wonderful & it is amazing how she became such an adept at something that was rather foreign to her when she started – plus her whole method of testing everything out multiple times when she was preparing recipes for the book! i love to see the process of how things are done; thank you for sharing.
January 19th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
I made the pomagranate cosmo jello shots. Some of them didn’t work and I got drunk on the failures.
February 19th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
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