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Originally Posted by Captainzing  Especially chilly |
Oh yes. I've rarely made chili from scratch but the time or two I did, it was a mess and it never tasted quite right. You either have the art of chili-making or you don't. I know my shortcomings and they are many when it comes to cooking. I was pretty good at plain bread baking from scratch, I mean you can barely go wrong there unless you can't knead well or over/under bake it. I can make a mean steak, pot roast, beans, casseroles, fluffy scrambled eggs, fry bacon, do scratch soups but that's about it.
I can't boil a decent egg nor do lasagna from scratch. I'd rather starve than try to do lasagna again from scratch. I'll just drink sweet tea and go hungry for that meal as the work outweighs the results for me. Started lasagna from scratch once and just gave up, threw the messed up dough away and put rest of ingredients, tools up, cleaned up the kitchen and finally ate a PB&J sandwich which I couldn't finish, poured myself some sweet iced tea. Couldn't even manage to pull something ready-made and frozen from the freezer. I was way too spent and demoralized.