Diva Disasters

So what disasters and mishaps did I have over the last five days?
Well, lets go over that. :).
Day 2-went grocery shopping. on the way to the store-five feet from my house I get stopped for going through a red light (did not see it turn red-cop acted like I was a leper-love Boston city cops...) $150.
Day 3: first day of baking, first batch of cookies in the oven. Orange almond slices. 100 cookies per sheet in the oven. Get distracted and burn them. Try to think they aren't that bad. Ask Jeremy (the distracting contractor) to taste them. he spits them out. OK, all in the trash.

Day 5 (day three of baking:
have a couple of the diva ladies over-totally distracted. First I mess up the melting moments-somehow the doubling of the recipe created a problem with the cornstarch-will never do that again. then I use the wrong pan for the Caramel on the rosemary/caramel bars and it looks like wax-start over

Day 7: perhaps the funniest. On very little sleep I attempt to start baking without even having a cup of tea first. Why you ask-well because I am obsessive. But nonetheless-the result is pretty funny.

First, I get two bowls out to separate four eggs and end up carefully cracking them all into one bowl. Ok-put the eggs aside to use later. Do over

About 10 minutes later I decide a cup of tea is probably best-so I get the tea pot
AND POUR THE TEA IN THE EGGS! yes, a new recipe is born-egg and tea all in one-why wait to make the eggs and drink the tea? just put them together and down the hatch!

Then, I am happily making the dough for the nut roll and Donna and Paula and Sydney are yakking away. SO absentmindedly, I use the whisk attachment on the mixer instead of the bread dough hook and realize my error when I am staring at the whisk and thinking-"why isn't this climbing the bread hook?" Oh yeah-didn't use the bread hook.

Start over making the dough (although I did a new thing with the "bad" dough. I cooked it in my lecruset. We'll see what it tastes like. It looks gorgeous. But it took a while to rise and it was very thick. not light and beautiful like the other dough.

SO those were the major disasters. Funny & time consuming-but just like going to the airport and counting on traffic-you have to assume there are going to be disasters along the way when you are making close to 5000 cookies and 26 nut rolls.

All in all - every thing turned out very well. But thought you might like to know-disasters happen to all of us. And don't think everything goes well on the food network either. I love to watch and see the edit point at exactly where they went off camera with something! I always know where to look. and then you wonder why yours doesn't come out right....