Welcome to a very special edition of Sometimes Healthy Kitchen Disasters.
I’m your host, Jamie, and I generally fail more often in the kitchen than I succeed. But after each epic failure, I garner inspiration from one of my childhood heroes, Michael Jordan.
As Mike once said:
Well, Mike, I think I’ve lost plenty of “games” in the kitchen at this point. So, as long as I’m abiding by your formula, eventually I shall achieve greatness, right?
Last night, despite being without an oven for one more week, I was excited to show everyone how I could make a delicious meal using only the crockpot and microwave. The brilliant plan was to re-make a crockpot meatloaf recipe and share it with the blog after taking some fabulous pictures. I also planned to make some corn bread and steamed spinach in the microwave.
Anyway, I chopped, mixed and, worked my little healthified meatloaf into a pretty little ball and waited for the spectacular results.
Around 5:30 before removing the meatloaf from the crockpot, I threw together a recipe for microwave cornbread, thinking it would be impossible for anything to go wrong.
Welll, let’s just say the spinach was the only worthy contender on this dinner plate.
The meatloaf wasn’t horrible, but it truly wasn’t tasty enough to share with you readers. Despite my constant humor and digs at my food photography, I really do take pride in this blog, and therefore, any recipe that I post is something I truly feel is good enough to share with others.
I think I put a bit too much worcestershire sauce in the meatloaf and didn’t leave it in the crockpot for long enough. Thus, it was falling apart and didn’t quite feel “cooked” enough. The flavors were there, so I hope to share a recipe for Skinny Crockpot Meatloaf with you soon!
And, the cornbread. Well, there’s not much to say really. It had weird holes, looked foamy and tasted like cardboard. It was the dreaded word I hate to use when I cook: inedible. Sigh.
Alas, just like Mike, I decided to make a go at it AGAIN. I had seen a blurb about banana sushi in the most recent issue of Food Network magazine, and I came up with some fun Sometimes Healthy Twists to kick it up a notch.
Basically, you smother a banana in nutella or peanut butter, sprinkle it with nuts, cut it evenly, serve it with chopsticks, and voila, you’ve got faux sushi.
I decided to get creative with some sprinkles, chocolate chip shavings and pulverized cupcake Goldfish (yes, I totally went there…it felt oddly cruel throwing those cute Goldfish into the blender…).
This was SUCH an easy recipe – how could I possibly mess it up?
I couldn’t wait to share it with all of you and present it as an easy, Sometimes Healthy way to serve up dessert.
Yet, the bananas made it to the plate, and sushi-lookalike, it was not. At least I had an excuse to eat a bunch of Nutella…
I think the key here is using ingredients, like pistachios, that give the bananas a more realistic “sushi-like” coating. I still stand by this brilliant idea, but for those that really want to make it work, check out this blog.
This is what banana sushi should really look like ya’ll. See it IS possible. It clearly just requires a level of precision that I was not capable of last night.
Oh well, you live and you learn.
There is one thing I DID manage to get right! This Countdown to LOVE Workout. I’ve mentioned before how much I love countdown workouts because I find myself more focused on the exercises than the clock. Well, this countdown workout (Valentine’s Day themed, clearly) works your whole body in a short amount of time!
On that successful note, I’m off to start my day with a run! (No matter how many times I fail in the kitchen, I can ALWAYS win with my run!)
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Hahah this made me laugh! I DEFINITELY have days in the kitchen where things just really, REALLY don’t work out ;). I had a disaster with peanut brittle that turned in to setting off the smoke alarm and having our security company call and demand a password which I didn’t know… Good times š
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