{"id":193,"date":"2010-03-22T12:51:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neophile.org\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2010-03-22T12:51:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:51:25","slug":"kitchen-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/22\/kitchen-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s something no-one likes to admit to. When you follow the recipe and&#8230; you fail. <\/p>\n<p>I was looking forward to some nice tangerine and lime marmalade and, instead, I have lime\/tangerine soup. Or maybe a marinade or glaze&#8230; but not something you can spread on toast, or crumpets, or whatever. I even tried opening up the jars, reheating the contents, adding liquid pectin to the soup&#8230; and it&#8217;s still soupy.<\/p>\n<p>Failure is something even the best cook in the world will face, and I am far from being the best. How you recover from it marks out the difference between being competent and being good &#8211; can you honestly tell me that the first cr\u00e8me brul\u00e9e was <strong>meant<\/strong> to look like that?!? No, some clever chef decided to call it &#8220;burnt cream&#8221; and make a feature out of their culinary fail.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time, I have 5.5 pints of tangerine lime soup. Maybe I will make a marmalade tart and call it &#8220;tarte au marmalade&#8221; or some other clever name!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s something no-one likes to admit to. When you follow the recipe and&#8230; you fail. I was looking forward to some nice tangerine and lime marmalade and, instead, I have lime\/tangerine soup. Or maybe a marinade or glaze&#8230; but not something you can spread on toast, or crumpets, or whatever. I even tried opening up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,27],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-fail","tag-oops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}