Lessons in Failure
This week I'm taking a break from sharing recipes because I want to discuss developing recipes, particularly the failures that teach. I have quite a few recipes written and ready to share. Almost every time I make one of the recipes I've already written, I find some small tweak that makes it a little better. This is why I'm often reluctant to share a recipe. I don't think a recipe is ever "perfect" for everyone. I have better recipes and even the best-for-the-time-being recipes. It's not unusual for my husband and other taste testers to disagree about whether or not a particular recipe works or could be better. Let's talk a bit about failure.... Cooking involves failure. There I said it. Many of the recipes I decide to share have undergone numerous attempts and therefore failures before I share them. Now, I have two choices with each of these failures. I can give up or I can learn from what went wrong. Sometimes a recipe just never works, but I ...