A group of friends and I set ourselves a task from the great Stephanie Alexander cook book every so often, one of us picks a recipe from the book and the majority of us try it out and compare. It was my turn. I picked some mumbo-jumbo-sweet-potato-coconut-flavoured-raisin-added-brown-sugared-laidened-pudding. And it was a disaster. It was sweet, OMG it was soooooo sweet that it made our teeth hurt. Mike made a valiant effort and got through 3/4 of his dish, I only got through half and the rest ended up in a soggy mess in the bin.
I followed the recipe to a tee, but I'm so hit or miss with my cooking it's possible I stuffed up. But I'm still not sure how it can purport to be a pudding when there was no flour in it. In any case Mike says this rivals the great sago pudding disaster of '03, where you could probably have tiled a kitchen or render a house with the consistency of that pudding. So this one didn't quite overtake it to first spot, but it rivalled it none the less.
On the scrapping front, [ksharonkdesigns] has some fabulous new simple sets for the photo a day people, and besides which they work well when displaying photographs for pages, whether doing photo a day or not. I had mentioned previously about planting my first garden, so my first efforts fit perfectly with this template.
3 comments:
Sorry but I'm kind of glad this happens to someone else occassionally!! I was so disappointed with the 'chocolate caramel tart' I made for Mums birthday last month, took all day and was not that great!!! Am trying a new flourless chocolate cake recipe today, wish me luck!!!
Carol, the pudding looks so good in the photo. How could it not taste that way or are you just a brilliant photographer? With our diet we have no grain so I am having to be very inventive especially for baking.
Looks pretty yummy in your photo! And your layout is so fresh and pretty ... beautiful! :)
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