This blog outlines a happy and a sad.
Happy.
It doesn't take much to make me happy. It's the little things sometimes. Coffee? Happy. Mexican candy? Happy. Yesterday's happy came in the form of a yummy grilled cheese sandwich and a mug of tomato soup. Reason # 358 I love Daiya cheese. It reunites me with the true love of my life, grilled cheese sandwiches. Not to mentions it's gotten very popular in the vegan world, so it is now available at the Mother's Market near my house (walking distance actually) AND it's affordable! YAY! I didn't take pictures, but it was a simple meal. I didn't even make the soup it was a can of Campbells.
Sad.
I recently learned that Morningstar Farms, maker of a wide range of veggie and vegan options, has decided to put egg and milk in many of their formerly vegan products. Not I already preferred the Boca brand for my veggie patties, but where this really affects me is their veggie crumbles aka veggie ground beef. It was good for tacos, sloppy joes, cheeseburger casserole, stuffed peppers, etc. I just bought a bag last week before I heard about the change, so when I was told about this, I checked my bag and yup, milk and eggs. So now I have a $5 bag of unusable veggie beef in my freezer (I didn't keep the receipt). They didn't even put "all new recipe!" on their ingredients or anything like that. The rats. Luckily there's other brand I can buy, but I preferred this brand.
So I guess it's a trade off. Hello grilled cheese. Goodbye Morningstar Farms.
Showing posts with label fail. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Fail
After reading my wife's blog, I decided it was time to share a commiserating story. This is chronicling my disasters in domestication, so get ready for a disaster.
Recently, we were given a bag of peaches. Now I am not a fruit person. I am much more a veggie eater. Asparagus, broccoli, carrots, they are all good. Fruit... eh. I guess. Sure, but not my preference. So what to do with this huge bag of peaches? We were given cobbler as a gift, so I decided to make a peach pie. I've never made a pie, and I was short on time, but my sister REALLY wanted pie that night so, ok, we'll throw one together. I had frozen strawberries, so it was going to be a strawberry peach pie. Sounds great right?
So I hop on to my old standby, allrecipes.com and find tons of recipes for pie crust. The problem? They all need to sit for 30 minutes to an hour. Like I mentioned, I was short on time, it was a work night and I didn't feel like sitting around to wait for flaky crust. So I bypass the flaky crusts and settle on this shortbread pie crust. Actually, the crust was pretty good. I would use it again. For the actual pie, I "use" this recipe for Peach-a-Berry pie. I put "use" in quotations because I just kind of used it as a guideline.
It was going pretty well. Baked the crust, sister peeled and cut up peaches. Here's where it went wrong though. When you see a recipe that says:
Place peaches and berries in a colander for about 15 minutes to drain any excess fluid , then transfer to a large bowl.
DO IT. Do NOT throw them in a colander, wait a minute, then say "oh, nothing is coming out" and throw it in the crust. It needs to drain. Can you guess what the disaster was?
So, I use some remaining pie dough to make a sad looking top crust thing. I was still pretty happy with myself though. First pie. In my neato pyrex pie pan too. I throw it in the oven.
45 minutes later:
I mean, it looks ok. Until you cut into it and realize it is....
Pie soup. Very soggy. There was actually a lot more fruit juice in the pan before I took that pic.
How did it taste? It was pretty good, but I think the sogginess gave us all tummyaches. So this went in the trash.
Fail. Better luck next time I hope.
Recently, we were given a bag of peaches. Now I am not a fruit person. I am much more a veggie eater. Asparagus, broccoli, carrots, they are all good. Fruit... eh. I guess. Sure, but not my preference. So what to do with this huge bag of peaches? We were given cobbler as a gift, so I decided to make a peach pie. I've never made a pie, and I was short on time, but my sister REALLY wanted pie that night so, ok, we'll throw one together. I had frozen strawberries, so it was going to be a strawberry peach pie. Sounds great right?
So I hop on to my old standby, allrecipes.com and find tons of recipes for pie crust. The problem? They all need to sit for 30 minutes to an hour. Like I mentioned, I was short on time, it was a work night and I didn't feel like sitting around to wait for flaky crust. So I bypass the flaky crusts and settle on this shortbread pie crust. Actually, the crust was pretty good. I would use it again. For the actual pie, I "use" this recipe for Peach-a-Berry pie. I put "use" in quotations because I just kind of used it as a guideline.
It was going pretty well. Baked the crust, sister peeled and cut up peaches. Here's where it went wrong though. When you see a recipe that says:
Place peaches and berries in a colander for about 15 minutes to drain any excess fluid , then transfer to a large bowl.
DO IT. Do NOT throw them in a colander, wait a minute, then say "oh, nothing is coming out" and throw it in the crust. It needs to drain. Can you guess what the disaster was?
So, I use some remaining pie dough to make a sad looking top crust thing. I was still pretty happy with myself though. First pie. In my neato pyrex pie pan too. I throw it in the oven.
45 minutes later:
I mean, it looks ok. Until you cut into it and realize it is....
Pie soup. Very soggy. There was actually a lot more fruit juice in the pan before I took that pic.
How did it taste? It was pretty good, but I think the sogginess gave us all tummyaches. So this went in the trash.
Fail. Better luck next time I hope.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Fail
I was really excited today because I was going to bake Cinnamon Sugar Butter Cookies for a coworker's birthday. I even went to the grocery store to get butter, eggs, and brown sugar. I get home and...
I am out of flour. I am NEVER out of flour. I actually always buy extra flour thinking that I am out, so I have usually have an extra bag stashed away.
Disaster.
I am out of flour. I am NEVER out of flour. I actually always buy extra flour thinking that I am out, so I have usually have an extra bag stashed away.
Disaster.
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