Sunday I made a thing I'd made before, a white bean, leek and escarole gratin. Previously? It was this delicious hearty cheesy comfort food. Sunday? Sad greens topped with cheese flavored sawdust. Part of the reason, I think, was the recipe called for ingredients by type - 1 leek, 1 head escarole, and the proportions got screwed up.
Something I find interesting with recipes are the ones that take you through the failures to get to the success- if version 1.0 had too many peas, v2 was too spicy, no one talks about v3, etc. It not only takes you through the process (admittedly, "food" and "too much detail" are pretty much my hobbies), but can also help understand the end result better. Understanding *why* there's only 1 cup of peas and not 1.5 is usually entertaining, and also gives me a base to put my own spin on whatever you did.
Also, I appreciate anything that shows the process so the messaging isn't "made this for hubs and YUMMO", it shows that food recipe development is both work and, at times, absolutely infuriating.
Sunday I made a thing I'd made before, a white bean, leek and escarole gratin. Previously? It was this delicious hearty cheesy comfort food. Sunday? Sad greens topped with cheese flavored sawdust. Part of the reason, I think, was the recipe called for ingredients by type - 1 leek, 1 head escarole, and the proportions got screwed up.
Something I find interesting with recipes are the ones that take you through the failures to get to the success- if version 1.0 had too many peas, v2 was too spicy, no one talks about v3, etc. It not only takes you through the process (admittedly, "food" and "too much detail" are pretty much my hobbies), but can also help understand the end result better. Understanding *why* there's only 1 cup of peas and not 1.5 is usually entertaining, and also gives me a base to put my own spin on whatever you did.
Also, I appreciate anything that shows the process so the messaging isn't "made this for hubs and YUMMO", it shows that food recipe development is both work and, at times, absolutely infuriating.