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Talk About Having Junk in the Trunk!

GiggleSugar — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:00:00 -0700

Let's Dish: What Recipe Have You Totally Screwed Up?

partysugar — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:45:37 -0800

Readers, I have a confession: sometimes I'm a failure in the kitchen. Take, for example, the picture below. My father recently watched Tyler Florence make the most delectable Spanish tapa where a raw egg is wrapped in jamon serrano, placed atop béchamel and toast, and baked in the oven. TyFlo made it look exceptionally easy.
However, when my dad and I went to recreate the dish, the ham wasn't strong enough to hold the eggs. The eggs rolled off the slippery white sauce and onto the baking sheet. After wasting eight eggs, we managed to get three nestled inside the ham. Then, when we removed the final product from the oven, the toast and eggs were stuck to the pan! Our breakfast was a complete disaster.

While we laughed it off, and managed to take a couple tasty bites of the mess, I got to thinking about failed recipes. Have you ever gone through a similar experience, where the recipe doesn't work? What recipe was it and how did you handle the situation?

Fail: The Video

GiggleSugar — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:12:25 -0700

Failure is the new success, at least on the Internet. Even if you don't watch this whole thing all the way through, definitely watch until you get to my favorite part. That would be when the woman kicks her would-be mugger's ass on the elevator. I love that surveillance video footage! Owned, indeed. (For more fail-related posts, click here.)

Here's the unedited original with some grody animal acts I figured I'd spare you.

Embrace the FAIL

GiggleSugar — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:00:00 -0700

You win some, you lose some. If we did everything perfectly, the gal next to us wouldn't get that oh so refreshing mid-party shower. We'd never see some dude's head stuck in some other dude's underpants. We would never get electrocuted during a drunken night out on the town. Failure is part of the fun, you see. (Want more failure? Visit MMOABC.) Source

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Cakes Minus Parchment Paper = Fail

YumSugar — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:43:31 -0700

Whenever I make a cake, I usually use a bit of parchment paper on the bottom of the pan. This way the cake won't stick to the pan and I'll have nice and even surface to work with. I either cut out a square or circle to fit the bottom of the pan, or I create a parchment-paper sling.

Unfortunately I said usually. To find out what happened when I didn't, read more.

The other day, I was trying to make petit fours for a game-night party. I set aside enough time, prepped all of my ingredients, and even came up with a clever design - I had planned on decorating them like dice. However it wasn't enough. For some reason I had decided to skip my trusty parchment-paper trick. The recipe I used didn't mention it, and I figured butter and a light dusting of flour was going to be enough.

Sadly, after I took the cake out of the oven and let it cool, I flipped it over and nothing. So I gave it a whack, turned the pan over, and yalped out loud. My cake was ruined! One half of the cake was on my plate, and the other half was left in the pan. I was mortified. There was no way to turn this into petit fours. Weird but delicious cake morsels, yes. Dice-shaped treats, no. In fact after scraping the cake out of the pan, I had to give it a long soak before the pan came clean.

Moral of the story is, be patient, use parchment paper, wait for the cakes to completely cool - this also could have been a problem - and when all else fails, it's okay to pick up dessert at the store.

Has this every happened to you? If so what did you do? Were you able to save dessert?

If you have pics of your failed treats, post them to our Savory Sights Group and let us know what happened!

Introducing: Fail Dogs

GiggleSugar — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:00:00 -0800

LOLCats has taken the Internets by storm, but they bettr watch out. There's a new breed of funny in town and they ain't in the mood to play games. . .cuz they never really win anyway. Forget all them fancy misspellings and talk of cheezburgers, cuz Fail Dogs do it differently. They fail. At just about everything. For more, visit Fail Dogs.

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Failure: The Only Option?

GiggleSugar — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:00:00 -0800

Whoever compiled these images needs an attitude adjustment. They're not content to see the world simply as a glass half empty, but rather as a glass whose liquid has spilled all over your head, broken, and with its shattered shards in your naked feet. Having said that-enjoy! Source

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Sign Fails

GiggleSugar — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:00:00 -0700

It would be sooo hard for me not to do the same thing!

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Product of the Day: Fail Stickers

GiggleSugar — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:07:54 -0700

The folks who created these great fail stickers suggest one possible use: If you "stumble across an epic fail," instead of just taking a picture of it and putting it on line, just slap fail sticker on it! I don't know how much I trust these guys, though. They put a fail sticker on a dude with an amazing mustache. Fail.

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Casa Beta: Izola Faile Shower Curtain

CasaSugar — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:01:50 -0800

Welcome to Casa Beta, where we test out all sorts of home products before recommending them to you!

My friend Richard started a company called Izola, which prints whimsical patterns, photographs of international destinations, and limited edition artwork onto shower curtains. The curtains have been on my radar for some time now, but I wasn't convinced of their coolness until he sent me a curtain printed with artwork by Faile, an international artist collective known for their contemporary stencil graffiti. According to my pal, "Faile has recently in the past six months become an unusually hot commodity in the art world, with works selling at Sotheby's starting at $48K and hanging in the same galleries as Basquiat and Warhol. The last Faile show sold out entirely, selling well over $1 million in works."

I was very thorough in reading the directions which came with the curtain, which said to rinse before installing. Good thing, because the vinyl was very potent at first. The smell subsided within a day and now I'm just excited to have a serving of art-pop culture with my evening showers. Also very important: it does a darn good job of keeping the water off of my tile floors. I'm just hoping one day they'll commission Banksy to bring his stenciling graffiti to my tub. My assessment: 4/5 stars.