First things first. I was watching sponge bob with my nieces and I saw a funny commercial.

It’s moderately horrifying, actually:

There were others!

Stupid advertising.  Now I want some!

Nextly!

It is my sister Elena’s birthday on Tuesday and I made her dinner tonight.  She wanted chicken and rice and a fruit tart.

EASY PEASY LEMON SQUEEZY!

I made rice with chicken stock, simple, flavorful and delicious!

I made King Ranch Chicken! MUAH! (I’ll post that recipe later since our family has changed it a bit)

I hunted around the internet and found a recipe for Brown Butter Fruit Tart. I even watched the video!  It looked SCRUMPTIOUS!

This is how it's supposed to look!

Neither did it look complex! I bought peaches and blueberries and cooked and when I took it out of the oven it was lovely.  Still looked a little watery, but I though, hell, it probably needs to cool.  So I left it alone.

We ate dinner, went to eat it and THIS IS WHAT WE GOT!

Delicious Fruit Soup

W.T.F?

I am a competent cook.  I may flatter myself to even be a GOOD cook.  And YES, I can bake!  So what the fuck did I do wrong?

We tried it and it TASTES marvelous- but it’s runny!  It’s like soup!  It puffed up gloriously souffle like as the recipe said it would. But then? This.

Elena was sweet about it.  When I got worried that it was still liquid I took a frozen chocolate pie out of the freezer and much good eating was had by all.

I did go back to the recipe page and the reviews were…. Not great.  Had I read them  I might have thought twice about it.  I’m going to try it again and I’m going to add more flour next time.  I think that might be the problem.

So yes. I killed something I cooked and I killed it in a dramatic and horrifying way.

I knew you’d all love to hear my disaster. Tomorrow I will bake the shit out of a new tart.

Bastard.