Well, you can't win them all. But two cooking fails in one day? Not cool. I saw this gluten-free "Asian Helper" in the grocery store the other day and I thought I'd try it out. You mix it with pre-cooked chicken, let it simmer, and then scramble a couple of eggs in the pan. Um, yeah. That didn't work out. It turned out like a mushy risotto--not fried rice. I promise, for once, I actually followed the directions perfectly so I'm giving this one a thumbs down. Luckily I did make some roasted broccoli on the side so that made the meal tolerable. How do you redeem a so-so dinner? By making a yummy dessert, of course! I looked up a new recipe for nutella cookies---if there's nutella as an ingredient it can't be all that bad, right? I won't bother with the recipe (they really weren't great) but here were the ingredients: I make two kinds of cookies: some chewy and gooey (for hubs) and some crispy and flat (for me)--that's why some of the...
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