Mistakes While Cooking

At some point in time, if you cook enough, you will make mistakes. I want to share one of my most recent mistakes with you.

I was in Walmart a few weeks ago and spotted some pretzels that had been dipped in caramel and rolled in nuts. Great idea! I bought my pretzels, not the really large ones that they had used but not the really small ones either. Sort of in-between. I picked up a bag of caramel chips, which I didn't know were even on the market, and knew that I had chopped pecans and almonds in my freezer. While thinking about this I decided to pick up a couple of apples and work them into my recipe. So... I cut the apples into chunks, melted my chips, inserted a pretzel into each apple wedge, coated it with my caramel and rolled it in nuts. I also made some like I had seen at Walmart that were just pretzel rolled about halfway up with caramel and then rolling them in nuts.

Of course, all cooks have to sample their food. I have to tell you that the apple wedges with their pretzel sticks were wonderful. And the pretzel sticks were just as good.

Here comes the problem. Pretzels get soggy when wet.... duh! I had hoped the caramel would seal the pretzel and harden enough to prevent this but the moisture from the apple made sure that all of my pretzel sticks fell over and eventually out of the apple wedges. Plus, the ones that didn't have apples attached to them still became soggy and sticky.

So, we all make mistakes and we all learn from our mistakes. Share some of your mistakes and so we can all learn from them.

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