Looks aren't everything
Jan. 4th, 2003 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiSo, as I mentioned in my New Year's post (located over here), one of the things I wanted to do more is cook. At halftime, in honor of the righteous ass-thrashing the Jets were giving the Colts, I decided to cook some chocolate chip peanut butter bars to honor them. And yes, I know this was baking and not cooking. Some people make a distinction. As far as I'm concerned, if it happened in the kitchen and it's not sex, it's cooking. So there.
The cooking went fine, aside from some minor hand cramping (we really need a good mixer, or at least a better whisk). And the bars taste damned good (with peanut butter, chocolate, and sugar as key ingredients, that was kind of ensured).
But they're ugly. Butt-ugly. The picture shows a nice set of cookie bars of uniform heights, with the chocolate spread perfectly on the top. My bars are uneven -- before the chocolate was spread on them, they looked like a close-up of the surface of Mars. And the chocolate didn't exactly spread evenly over them.
But they tatste yummy. And as long as I'm not trying to sell them at a bake sale, that's really all that matters.
But damn, they are ugly. I may have to stick to stews or other things that just aren't meant to look pretty.
The cooking went fine, aside from some minor hand cramping (we really need a good mixer, or at least a better whisk). And the bars taste damned good (with peanut butter, chocolate, and sugar as key ingredients, that was kind of ensured).
But they're ugly. Butt-ugly. The picture shows a nice set of cookie bars of uniform heights, with the chocolate spread perfectly on the top. My bars are uneven -- before the chocolate was spread on them, they looked like a close-up of the surface of Mars. And the chocolate didn't exactly spread evenly over them.
But they tatste yummy. And as long as I'm not trying to sell them at a bake sale, that's really all that matters.
But damn, they are ugly. I may have to stick to stews or other things that just aren't meant to look pretty.
