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u/tereyaglikedi in 3d ago

Look at my tomatoes 😍 aren't they gorgeous?

I am eating vegan at the moment, so I tried to make tofu Caprese. You need to drain the tofu really well, and then slice and dress as usual. I must say, it is very very good. I would eat it happily even if I weren't vegan (I see the torches and pitchforks already)

I had some epic cooking fails last night and ended up having ramen at nine instead. But I am determined to turn it around and make something out of the battlefield from yesterday.

Did you guys ever have any horrible cooking fails? What happened?

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u/lucapal1 Italy 3d ago

These tomatoes are great!

So bad that I couldn't eat it, rarely.Of course there are things that turn out not as good as they could be!

Occasionally if I follow a new recipe the result can be pretty bad, but usually I adjust if the ingredients seem wrong, rather than follow the recipe religiously.

I do remember a lemon chicken recipe I followed once that came out so sour it was pretty terrible!

I also had a few things that completely collapsed while cooking... falafel was one.You need to be more careful with the temperature than I was.

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u/tereyaglikedi in 3d ago

My mom tried to make falafel once (she is terrible at following recipes so she just made it up) and they fell apart. I told her she needs to use soaked, raw chickpeas. Then she did it again and they fell apart again. I was like, you cooked the chickpeas again, didn't you? She doesn't believe that it will work if you don't cook them first, and she's stubborn as a donkey.