Cooking 101: It Doesn’t Always turn out

I know the complete frustration when you think something so simple as a biscuit should turn out and be delicious. Its flour, milk, butter and baking powder. How hard could it possibly be? Don’t forget the recipe stats how “easy” it is in the title.  You can envision the golden brown top and flakey buttery inside. Warm with a slab of butter and your favorite jam. Yum! Open the oven door flat as flat can be!

The time and energy that goes into baking or cooking with it not turning out, is a constant reminder that you are a complete and utter failure. Who in their right mind would want to willingly sign up for that risk? Knowing there is a 50/50 chance the universe is going to laugh at you! The people you live with telling you “Yeah, that wasn’t good.” Guess what you still have to eat: cereal and sandwiches for supper it is!

When you are cooking for your family, they are the biggest critics and are unashamedly honest. (I hate it but at the same time appreciate it) (Well, when I have to remind myself that I appreciate their honesty I appreciate it.) After one Thanksgiving with a hodge podge of left overs, I made a “leftover hotdish”. I thought yams would work great in a hotdish. Really what doesn’t work in a hotdish. Yams are in the potato family right? Yeah, they didn’t work. And the people l live with have never let me forget that it didn’t work and it was not good. Well, I take that back, Nate didn’t think it was that bad. The other two, a constant reminder it didn’t work. We are talking years I am constantly reminder of this when ever the word Thanksgiving is said. “Remember when…..”

The point is, keep cooking. Keep baking. And always have cereal and lunch meat on hand for when it doesn’t turn out.   

Flat Easy Biscuits