Try try again, or try something else?

• Posted on KK
• in 30 days, random
• on June 2, 2011
• 2 Comments.

I’m curious how you generally react when something you try to do fails in a big way. For example, I really enjoy baking and usually, when people ask Dan and I who cooks in our relationship, we’ve become accustomed to saying that Dan cooks and I bake. I actually try to bake something once a week – breads, pies, cakes, cookies, etc. I’ve come to accept that not everything I bake is going to be our new favorite recipe or anything** but when something doesn’t turn out well, for reasons that I don’t understand (if I burned it, I understand that less time in the oven will usually fix the issue), I usually toss the recipe and just move on to something else. But, I’m willing to bet that the people who publish recipes have a lot more experience than me, so logically it’s probably not the recipe’s fault that I messed it up. And yet, I reject it and move on to another. In other, less specific life situations, I tend to do the same thing. So I’m curious – in a similar situation, what do other people do? Are you a try-try again type? Or a try something else type?

(I bring this up because the lemon cake I made tonight is a hotttttttt mess. It’s a Martha Stewart recipe and when I went online to see if people had written reviews for it, the recipe online is totally different from the printed one I have from one of her magazines…WTF Martha?)

In other news, “NaBloPoMo” is…now. Look at me starting on June 1st! (Also, can you believe it’s June? Where the heck is this year going?!?) So this month, I’m going to try to post everyday and get back in the swing of writing for a month. I know I’ve delivered you these false promises before, so I can’t blame you if you don’t take me seriously. (I sound like a bad boyfriend cliche – it’s not you, it’s me! I just need some space!) Anyway, I’m going to try, because it’s just embarrassing how inactive our blog has been lately. Please encourage me by leaving some comments. Nice ones.

See you tomorrow.

**Even though I totally feel like an idiot after I’ve put the time and effort into baking something and I mess it up. For the most part, I burn things. Bottoms of cookies, sides of cakes. I have accepted that I have a crazy, inconsistent, old oven, so I keep the temperature down and reduce my cooking time. I have an over thermometer so I’m not relying on the oven’s temperature gauge. And yet, I burn things. SO FRUSTRATING.