Why cooking a bad meal is good!

​Why cooking a bad meal is good.
 
Over the last two weeks I have cooked 2 of the worst meals of my life.  Oh no, I am not kidding.  Tonight’s meal is so bad my son, so desperately tired to eat it, I threw it away and my husband God love him cleaned his plate…. moments later he was upstairs taking ALL of his stomach meds preventing a friggin gallbladder attack. 
 
So why is this good?  First off, failing at cooking teaching you how to fail at cooking.  If you don’t make something that sucks every once and a while that means you are not trying new things.  You can read a million recipes and follow them all step by step, but they can still suck.  Failing teaching you how to be your own cook and better yet how to filter through those recipes on Pinterest that look really good but taste like shit.

Second, it creates a memory.  Over the last two weeks I have added those recipes to the top 5 worst meals.  Meal 1:  Homemade pesto on spilt breast chicken with fresh basal.  You know what happen with that…it catching on fire.  Meal 2:  Broiling meat because it is called a London Broil.  NO!   Meal 3:  Pumpkin cheese pasta with chicken all mixed in.  That’s a hard no!  Meal 4:  Crock pot Lemon and lime chicken in which you leave the whole spilt lemon and lime in the crock pot with the chicken.  Oils burn and bitter the chicken!  Meal 5:  Chicken, mushroom, bacon and shallot with whole coconut milk cream sauce.  OMG! NO! All these ingredients separates are good…together bad, very bad.

Third it teaching you that failing is ok, because that means you are trying to cook whole foods, with fresh ingredients.  It also helps you know what tastes good together and what does not.  It teaching you about controlled heat and when to use fresh spices and when dried is best.  Lastly, failing teaches you to be humble.   Failing often happens when you are trying to follow a recipe to a T and what you have to remember you are not in a test kitchen with a sous chef, prep cook and dishwasher. 
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Now, I’m not going to blow a bunch of smoke and tell you that failing feels great, it is a waste of food and time.  But you have to stay positive…yeah I threw away a lot of unwanted, uneatable, food tonight but I didn’t die or kill anyone….so all and all there’s the upside. 
 
Happy Cooking!  

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