This fig, bacon and goat cheese pizza was a success.
But these mussels were a sandy, gritty fail. They looked pretty though!
Kitchen Lessons I've Learned
-Purchase an oven liner to avoid a feast of dinners past from accumulating on the bottom of your oven. Don't use aluminum foil or parchment paper. Also, put your oven liner on the bottom rack, not the floor of the oven.
-to avoid grit, only buy PEI Mussels. Optional - soak your mussels in cool water with some cornmeal at the bottom before preparation. Lastly, remove the beards from your mussels.
-Find a cookie sheet brand you like and can trust. Use this brand to bake all your cookies for consistency. I like Chicago Metallic and it's cheap. Also, use your silpat.
-Let the cookies cool before removing them from the cookie sheet. It doesn't matter if this is the only cookie sheet/silpat you own :-/
-Be ridiculously generous with butter and marshmallows when making rice krispies. Like 1.5x the recommended amount :-)
And what I'm still learning...
I love steak and have successfully cooked a steak before. However last Thursday I found myself setting off the fire alarm 4 times and coming to close to having a heart attack over fear the sprinkler system would be next. The kitchen was just so smoky! I've been reading about the smoke points of oil and trying to figure out how to avoid this problem in the future. My phone is the galaxy s5 and it often stalks my google searches and suggests I check out things (usually the NC state score on game days). After my mishap, it recommended I read No Grill, No Vent, No Problem. Great, so my phone knows I've been struggling in the kitchen too!
I've had a lot of good days in the kitchen so of course I was due for some bad days. Practice makes perfect!
Chicken Sauteed in Brown Butter and Sage with Parmesan Spinach Orzo.
This was a success. Well kinda. :-) Always room for improvement!
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