- Using 1.5 tablespoons of salt instead of 1.5 teaspoons for chicken taco meat
- Forgetting to add the mandarin oranges--the best part!--to my teriyaki pasta-spinach salad
- Adding 1 cup instead of 1/2 cup of water for a peach cobbler, then baking it longer to cook some of it off, only to have the dish turn out very gummy
- Using parsley when the recipe called for cilantro, making for some very weird-tasting enchiladas
My husband doesn't understand how I keep making such mistakes. When he rather unwisely asked why I put extra water in the cobbler, I gave him a look of death and snapped, "I didn't do it on purpose."
I'm really a very detail-oriented person, so I don't know why I can't follow recipe instructions. Am I alone on this? I guess I'll just have to keep plugging away...
4 comments:
You are definitely not alone on this. I am always messing up recipes by not following them exactly. Aaron is always making fun of me!
We are cut from the same cloth, cousin! I am also very detail oriented (remember my letter to our catsitter?) - but I always mess up recipes. Hence the reason I have perfected about 8 or 9 dishes and keep doing them over and over and over again. I hate to fail as well...
Oh I am so the same. Even a dish I have made multiple times I mess up on. Once I have made a dish it seems I can never get it right a second time. I must not be detailed oriented. ;)
I wonder if this heat/humidity is doing a job making us do more of these strange actions??? My neighbor said that her mother-in-law acts strange in summer.
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