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Another ketchup explosion

accidents, ketchup, mistakes | January 25, 2013 | By Jessi

I don’t get it.

I’m no stranger to messes and kitchen accidents. I’m not even a stranger to ketchup explosions.

What I don’t get is why they keep happening! It’s not like I’m being careless in the kitchen. I’m not a klutz who is constantly knocking things over. And I certainly don’t go intentionally making messes because I hate cleaning them up.

No, they’re just complete randomness. It’s a box that breaks. A bottle that builds up pressure and I’m the one who opens it first. Someone putting an opened container back in a cabinet upside down.

And who gets to clean it up? Me.

Who also gets to post the messes online to counter all the perfectly cleaned, properly posed, professionally captured food pictures that all the other bloggers put up? Me!

Hey, it’s something, right? :P

The ugliest bread I have ever made

accidents, bread, dessert, edible art, mistakes, quirky creations | December 14, 2012 | By Jessi

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Unfortunately, the picture above is the PRETTY version of it, after I tampered and tweaked it into something a person could actually tolerate looking at…and maybe consider eating it.

Let’s go back to the beginning to see how this “masterpiece” started, though. I believe this is from the time I tried recreating the adorable panda bread.

Adorable bread that looks like a panda when sliced

It totally looks like that, right? :P

Anyway, I started with all the appropriate proportions of colored bread dough:

I went with a lovely blue because I didn’t want it to be exactly like the panda above and I thought the blue would make a nice sky instead of grass behind it.

Unfortunately, the bread dough recipe I used decided that not only was it going to rise….but it was going to rise and rise and rise some more, so that it didn’t come out like a flat loaf at all.

It came out as a monster! And oversize, lumpy (albeit, fluffy and tasty) monster of a loaf!

There was no way it looked like a panda inside, of course, and didn’t even look like a pretty swirl. Even I didn’t want to eat it. So instead, I thought it would look cool as a bread pudding. Then it would be more swirled and cool, right?

Wrong! Ew!

Okay, as a last resort, I figured I could slather it in icing. How about a lovely blue to bring out the blue flecks in the bread pudding?

Seriously?

What the heck happened?? That is the nastiest color ever and no where near blue! It’s just gross green stuff. Ew again!

Swirled blue icing - Earth in swirly motion

Thankfully, when I stirred it, you could tell that it was really blue underneath. I’m not sure what’s going on with that dark green.

When sliced, the bread pudding *did* look kinda cool. It’s not a panda, but the girls thought it was neat…even if maybe a little bit weird.

And hey, with appropriately blue-colored icing, it was actually pretty edible, too!

Another one bites the dust OR Don’t cry over spilled spaghetti

2009, accidents, mistakes, spaghetti | July 19, 2012 | By Jessi

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It’s a great thing I have this habit of taking pictures of everything. Otherwise, you’d miss out on the glory of my mistakes. In this case, it was a full box of spaghetti that someone opened on the bottom and then put back in the cabinet right-side up. Oops.

Actually, now that I think about it, I’d forgotten just how many times I’ve shared our spills and accidents already:

Broken oil on concrete