We had another failure last weekend.  I am on a quest to do something with pasta that has not been done before but that actually tastes good!  I feel that I will have many failures along the way.  This was a failure for 3 reasons: first, the final dish looked gross and we all know we eat with our eyes first.  Second, the things were way too hard to make.  And third, after all that effort they were still only just "OK".   I mean they tasted good, fresh sauce, homemade pasta, and cured Italian meats, how could it be bad?  But the meats were a little too much, it would have been better if they were smaller, thinner tubes with less filling.  Also the goodness to amount of effort ratio was not a good one.  I’m sure if we adjusted this recipe, it could be more delicious, and even look pretty good, but that would take even MORE work and they were already a lot.  I just never think they would be worth the effort.  Because this was a failure, I will not be putting the exact recipes, but they are fairly self explanatory anyways.

It happens to everyone. Some days you just shouldn’t be in the kitchen. There are signs all around telling you it isn’t a good idea, but when you are really excited to cook you sometimes ignore them. Last Friday Mandi and I had BIG plans to make Pad Thai. We have been trying to eat less meat lately so we thought this would be a great meal because you can use tofu as the main protein. We have made a few different Thai dishes including a green curry so we thought this wouldn’t be a problem at all. Click below and see why it was.