Ever see a recipe online that you think looks good, but when you make it for dinner it’s really quite disappointing?<\/p>\n
Yeah, that was me, last night.<\/p>\n
I won’t go into the gruesome details of what it was, but here are the essential facts…<\/p>\n
Facebook shows people pages their friends have liked on the chance that you might like it, too. Friday afternoon it showed me a recipe from a site that several friends had liked (the site, not the recipe), and the picture looked quite appealing. It was a regional pasta dish I’d never heard of, but there are lots of things I’ve never heard of. “I’ll give this a shot!” I said, printing off the recipe.<\/p>\n
The grocery list was fairly simple, and during A Prairie Home Companion<\/em> I went to work. It was straightforward. Saute this, brown that, dump in a jar of tomato sauce, put in a baking dish.<\/p>\n It didn’t occur to me that the recipe called for no seasoning whatsoever. If I had realized, I would almost certainly have used some, because when I took the dish out of the oven it was bland and lacking in flavor. The judges on Chopped<\/em> would chop this without remorse.<\/p>\n Putting some parmesan on top helped.<\/p>\n Of course, now I have seven cintainers of this in my refrigerator, so I’m set on dinners for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n Yay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ever see a recipe online that you think looks good, but when you make it for dinner it’s really quite disappointing? Yeah, that was me, last night. I won’t go into the gruesome details of what it was, but here are the essential facts… Facebook shows people pages their friends have liked on the chanceContinue reading “Dinner Time Disappointments”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4613],"class_list":["post-31077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-cooking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}