Not a Good Day to Cook
It’s been a draining weekend for me. I’ve been trying to get this video presentation compiled of all my past animation work put together, and for Wednesday, we’re holding a dessert potluck. I figured out the video thing just now and have nice clean DVD all set up, but the dessert is another question.
I went on-line and found this nice recipe for Chocolate-Covered Peanut Butters Balls. It sounded easy enough to make so I grabbed the ingredients while I was out and and got to work on it earlier this afternoon. What I ended up with was crap. The first problem came when I thought I could multi-task and melt the chocolate in the microwave while I used my only sauce pan to melt the peanut butter on the stove. After three minutes, something smelled funny. I opened the microwave, and the chocolate had burnt a hole straight through the Tupperware and was burnt all over inside. Throwing it away, I used up the rest of the chocolate to get everything back on track. The next problem arose when I found out the chocolate wasn’t deep enough to dip the balls on. Instead, I had to roll them around in it, and the end result was this nasty looking turd that tastes like Reese’s Pieces retarded cousin. The final problem came when I put them in the freezer, and when I opened it later, the pan fell on the floor and the balls rolled around the still unswept floor. I salvaged some, but decided I wasn’t bringing these on Wednesday.
So I looked at my remaining ingredients and opted for Peanut Butter Cookies. After 30 minutes of preparation, they burnt to death after 5 minutes in the stove. Straight into the garbage they went.
Think I’ll just bring freezies for everyone on Wednesday.
If making dessert wasn’t enough, I made some stir fry for supper and had to throw out a whole pot of overcooked rice. It’s not a good day for me and food. Next weekend, I’m eating out.
July 28 2008 12:48 am | Daily Life, Food
Melanie on 28 Jul 2008 at 11:47 am #
Awe Chris, that is no good. I make easy peanut butter cookies.. 1 cup penut butter, 1 egg, 1/2 cup sugar. Mix, roll into spoon sized balls, flatten slightly with a fork into a criss cross pattern. Bake at 325 for about 12-15 mins.
Or make is easy on yourself and buy something.. heehee.
~Melanie
Brittany on 29 Jul 2008 at 12:30 am #
Aw. Poor Chris. If you ever want to cook or make dessert or try something new then call me and I’ll LOVE to come over and help you! I love to cook and it’s always nice to have me as company and someone to laugh at if you screw up. It’s easier to blame it on someone else lol.
blubface on 27 May 2010 at 6:54 pm #
niiice one,chris
seriosly dude, that was such a fail