Never Judge a Dish By Its Appearance
Just not as good as it looks.
Food styling is an amazing thing. It takes an ordinary tasting dish and makes it look drool worthy. The recipe pictured above looks pretty good, doesn’t it? In fact, Joe thought it looked so good that he made me take this photo of it before digging in. Unfortunately, as we started to eat, there were no happy sounds coming from anyone’s mouth. The recipe also looked good in the magazine where I found it. I’ll bet their recipe tasted just as bland. The problem is that this was a quick cook type of recipe, and it didn’t have enough time to absorb any love or flavors.
I’ve always tried to teach this lesson to the girls when they see food on tv thats looks so unbelievably good to them that they want to go to that restaurant RIGHT NOW. Maybe last night’s dinner proved that I’m not a liar when I counsel them to be suspicious of commercials. Then again, did you ever believe your parent’s lessons? Didn’t think so.
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I recently had a slightly opposite experience. I had to quickly prepare dinner for my sons so I threw together some unique available ingredients and basically made a spicy meatloaf. Anyway in my haste to bake it I did not form it as aesthetically as I could have. When it came out of the oven and everyone asked what it was I quickly named “Meat Pile”. Everyone thought it was very tasty and the leftovers were gone before dinner the next night.. I should have took a picture; it would have lasted longer.
Lucky you – nothing like a happy surprise!