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100 Words on Love, by Joanna Schroeder
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I started cooking for Thanksgiving on Wednesday.
Rebekkah and I drank beers and chatted while I accidentally cut twice as much butter than I was supposed to into the flour for pie.
When we looked into the little window at the baking crust, it was a sludge of bubbling grease.
I pulled it out, mixed in more flour, and hoped for the best. What I got was something close to the worst, so we abandoned the idea and converted the materials into cobbler.
I was disappointed. But when my husband came home, he looked at my sad mottled mess of dessert and said, “It’s perfect.”
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More love, in 100 Words
More love by Joanna Schroeder, all in 100 words
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Photo: Flickr/Daniella Segura
One of the most useful arts a home cook can learn is how to salvage a screwup. I’ve been teaching my oldest daughter that skill over the last year or so. We both have at times found it interesting that sometimes the results after salvaging, is tastier that what was originally planned.