Monday, October 22, 2012

Pinterest: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

A series of post of the successes and failures that have come from my recipe ventures through a little phenomenon you have probably heard of called Pinterest.


The Good
I had a wild hair and decided to try this rosemary bread. It was a tasty addition to our hearty bowl of soup and made really delicious sandwiches for the week. I pinned it thinking I would make it in the crockpot as mentioned in the notes of pins but the recipe called for the oven, so I made it according to the recipe but I suppose leaving it in the crockpot to rise and bake would be a worthy experiment.
One other note, I was expecting this to taste like the bread at the Macaroni Grill but due to the whole wheatiness of it, it wasn't quite the same. I will sacrifice for the healthy factor.






The Bad
I've realized my usual pinterest flops are due to elevated expectations. This is one of those that the pictures were so good that I was sure it was going to taste just as good as it looked. And it was easy. So I really wanted it to be eyes-rolling-back-in-my-head good. It was just ok. Kind of just tasted like bananas, sweetened condensed milk, graham crackers and cool whip. They didn't mesh. I am sure if I had made from-scratch whipped cream and made my own crust that it would have been much better. But I was wanting a mindless, sit down and flip through my magazine easy kind of recipe. I guess that's just unrealistic.

This wasn't BAD, just disappointing... again makes me think I did something wrong. I do see a pattern developing in my bad category.






The Ugly 
This rendered me speechless. I can't decide if I am in love or horrified.


1 comment:

chereemoore said...

The GOOD -- I have been considering the crockpot bread I keep popping up. I may have to give this recipe a shot.

The BAD -- We make the caramel pie but not with bananas -- we like to add chocolate chips to ours.

The UGLY -- I did a bacon wrapped turkey for Thanksgiving a couple of years ago (I didn't basket weave the bacon though) and it was AMAZING. Best turkey I have ever had.

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