Because I'm lazy and I was pretty hungry I decided to try my hand at making:

http://www.netmums.com/family-food/recipes/a-z-of-family-recipes/microwave-mug-cake

Rather than a tasty, microwavable five minute delight what I'm now begrudgingly chowing my way through is a burnt plug of raw matter that could probably be used as an offensive weapon.

I WILL EAT THE ENTIRE THING just to defy the gods of baking.

I really don't know if I can stomach the whole thing.

This sounded like such a good idea on paper.

It might just be me. I think I cooked it too long and the mixture wasn't nearly mixed enough since there's a residue of crispy flour stuck to the bottom of the cake (and I use the term cake very loosely).

I admitted defeat after nearly finishing half. This thing is possibly edible and probably won't kill me but the same could be said about cardboard.

The people on the site are praising this like it's a godsend. I think I have a midas touch with baking wherein no matter how to the book I follow a recipe, it'll always come out as some indigestible mush (or more appropriately due to my fears of undercooking, charcoal).

I'm okay with biscuits. Biscuits I can do. Everything else varies.

I took a photo of the thing but I'm way too tired to upload it tonight. I might keep it as a souvenir when I'm done. It'd probably survive a nuclear war.

Something to eat when we're done with turtle soup, I guess.

That's probably where I go wrong. I like putting things together. Give me a piece of flatpack furniture to knock together and I'll have it up in 30 minutes flat. I'm good with DIY, good with writing software, good with completing jigsaws, good with all things that require a logical series of steps to complete.

Something organic and variable like cooking throws me off when the step by step instructions fail to produce anything that looks remotely like the thing on the packaging. My desk looks good though!

Tonight I will be attempting pancakes. Last time I did this they were an inch thick. This was the thickness I was striving for:



I should have my own cooking show.

Pancakes were actually a success! I didn't follow the recipe to the book this time. I halved the measures since it purportedly made 12 and that's a ridiculous number. So I was hoping for six (which seemed to many anyway). The mixture made 4 in the end. There were lumpy bits in it and a few cosmetic errors with the pancakes but they tasted great.

One crumbled in the middle. I don't think there was enough butter to grease the pan with either. Still, a recipe that was largely successful. I will be attempting it again.

Leaffan20 @ 6/10/2012 23:25

Henry_42 @ 4/10/2012 6:30 just yesterday and the day before that i made hamburgers. bacon, onions, salad, sauce, beef. nothing fancy there. just plain and simple awesome hamburgery I'm making hamburgers tonight, love my George Foreman grill.

Completely off-topic but I always found this hilarious:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foreman#Family

The slogan of the grill is "I'm so proud of it, I put my name on it." The fact he did this to his offspring too is hilarious.