I have to admit, this post is a little embarrassing but below is a a small collection of shitty ass dishes I've made in the past; some tasted bad, some looked horrible and some were both. Personally, I think it's a bit silly to think that every dish you will make will go flawlessly or will taste delicious every time. These days I've gotten good enough that it goes alright most of the time but there are some days where I feel like I'm hugest noob of all time LOL. I've never claimed to be amazing at cooking and below is a small showcase of why. Enjoy :)
Spanish Omelette
So this is a dish I copied from watching Jamie At Home. There was no recipe but the whole thing was easy enough. It looked delicious on the show and was made of seemingly delicious ingredients so this one should've been a win/win. Nah B. For starters, the chirozo sausage and potatoes are baked in an omelette but the omelette itself was bland as hell. The rosemary didn't go well with the dish, the potatoes were decent but didn't add any flavour to the omelette. Also, this was the first time I've ever had chirozo and my first impressions were not great. Maybe I had a bad batch but these sausages had a really bad smell to them. I'll try them again before I make up my mind. Jamie, you are boy but this dish sucked my balls.
Double Chocolate Cookies
I think I found this recipe on the Martha Stewart website. I modified the chocolate chip cookie one I found to make it more chocolatey, I cut some ingredients to include more cocoa powder and things like that. As you can see from the picture, I don't make cookies that often. Cookies and cupcakes aren't things I usually make although I love them. There are enough girls around me that make those things so I don't really need to :) Sometimes I have a huge craving though and then shit seems to go terribly wrong lol! In terms of the cookie itself, it tasted alright but I'm not really sure how to make the cookie more gooey and soft. I also don't know how you get the chocolate chips to show on the top. My shit just melts. Iunno. Whatever. I'll work on it.
Spiced Banana Crepe Suzette
To be honest I don't really know what this tasted like because I had the hugest allergy attack while I was cooking it and by the time it was done I couldn't taste it :( However, I feel that it didn't taste as good as it could have. For starters this was the first time I ever tried to cook crepes and I was not very successful. The pics below can attest to that lololol. Next I had to make a citrus sugar syrup with lime and orange and from what I could tell it was WAY too sour to put on top of this dish. Other than the fact that my crepes were mediocre and the sugar syrup was too sour, this dish was probably alright. FYI I had to flambé the whole thing (when you light alcohol on fire in the frying pan) so that was pretty sweet. The banana's were spiced with pumpkin pie spice, and the whole thing was topped with lime zest, coconut and vanilla and hazelnut gelato. I'll work on this one cuz I think it will taste delicious after I figure out how to stop being a noob.
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| Left: First crepe (pan was too hot, batter was too think) Middle: Second crepe Right: Third crepe (batter was loosened and heat was lowered. Still too yellow for some reason but it tasted alright. |
Banana Fritters
