Why can’t I make a decent chocolate chip cookie? Actually, I seem to mess up a lot of food, but I only have one post, so I’ll limit myself to the chocolate chip cookies. Exhibit A: The plate of cookies I made last night.
You can probably tell from the photos, but here is what my cookies are that they should not be: crispy. They taste okay – but then, they contain loads of butter, sugar and chocolate and even I can’t mess that up too much. Here are a few reasons I came up with to explain my total incompetence:
1. I never give myself the time to linger over anything. Last night, I created my masterpiece while feeding my daughter, feeding my son and cleaning the kitchen.
2. I always think I’m following the recipe correctly only to discover, that I forgot something important, like the eggs. Whatever that ingredient is, I chuck it in at the end and hope for the best.
3. I come up with marvelous ideas about how to change the recipe. Like last night: to not use chocolate chips, but instead smash up my favorite dark chocolate bar and throw that in. “Why not throw that in” being a common theme to my cooking. Okay. So, we’ve established I’m no chef.