It’s my annual recipe disaster round-up!
Some years feel like a string of kitchen misadventures, and 2021 was one of those. Each year I collect the recipes that didn’t go as planned — a lighthearted look at the flops, the near-misses, and the experiments that simply didn’t pan out. I’ve been sharing these annual round-ups for over a decade, which is wild! If you want to see past posts, they’re available as a running series on my site.
This post is just a fun way to celebrate the messy parts of cooking. I test and retest recipes constantly, and with so much time in the kitchen, plenty of things go sideways. Here are the highlights — or lowlights — from this year’s pile of failures. Share your own recipe disasters in the comments below!
The banana bread pictured at the top was clearly not a winner this time around. It’s one of many loaves that didn’t behave the way I expected.
