As we were sitting on the balcony drinking coconut water while gazing at the horizon…we concluded….
# 1. We do not have a balcony… We pretend our kitchen window is a balcony since it over looks a courtyard & park benches. Occasionally, we hear the echo of a masa nearby. A generous reminder that we were (once again) not invited to a neighbor’s party.
# 2. We do not have coconut water. However, we are experimenting with homemade Kumbucha tea. Yeah, you read that correctly, we’re simply harvesting live cultures to aid our digestive process.
*Disclaimer: We are amatures & do not encourage such tactics. Even if your fellow PCV offers to pay you 25 lei to drink 1/4 of it with a ‘floatie’ of live culture.
*Fact: Someone is 25 lei richer and still feels great after drinking the 1/4 cup of raw kumbucha w/un-identified floating live cultures
# 3. We take pride in our food, But….alas, we are humans. We are not perfect with our creations. After all, neither of us actually follow recipes. One night Demmel mimicked my every move of what seasonings I dressed my food- a little of this… a little of that… a pinch lemon pepper, garlic salt, balsamic vinaigrette, Lawry’s Seasoning Salt, and a dash of some Italian herb mixture from who knows where. Midway through mimicking my every condiment shake, she told me that she’s just following the person who knows best. (Great. This is the blind leading the blind)
This post is to show how we have royally destroyed some dishes to epic proportions. Ah, exposing our tender side for the first time…..reap pleasure in our failures. I would, also, like to note that we attempted to consume all meals, regardless of the damage. But sometimes, one of us will step-up to silently take reigns and makes the disaster disappear.
Angle Food Cake….or crumbs. It still tasted great with ice cream!
So, half the container of red chili peppers ended up in the veggies. Oops! This does not make for a good stir fry
Other failures:
Anything we bake. The oven has one setting: Broil.
Regardless, carry-on, be fruitful, and one day we will write down recipes in an effort to share them with you all…and I have no idea why I cannot remove the italics from this last part of the post. Eh, whatever.
Cheers!
Sfecla & Spice 