Humble Pie

For some, the mediocrity of Friday Night Experiments would be enough to call off Saturday Afternoon Experiments, but life lived with that mindset isn't very interesting. For instance, making BIG mistakes teaches us things, like how nice nonstick cookie sheets are!

Recipe for humble pie: Great aspirations. Three zucchini sliced very, very thin. Put the slices in a bowl with some olive oil, salt, and pepper, then bake at 450 for half an hour. Have fun scrubbing the carbon-covered cookie sheets!

Once again I am reminded that it is a gift when an idea or recipe comes out the way I want it to, not something to be taken for granted. The first big lesson of this was the three attempts at making kiwi gelato (I have since given up). The Poet Mraz reminds us all how blessed we are to even have food; the ThankfulFor blog reminds us how blessed we are to hear. Not to pretend like I own a soapbox, but I think that agriculture should be an integral part of everyone's formal education; I think gratitude should have a much larger role in our lives.

Question for readers: how does one fix tasteless hummus? Is the tahini really that necessary?