Weekly Photo Challenge: Wrong

KatharineAugust 10, 2012October 11, 2013Homemaking, Photos, Who's the mom here?Cooking, homemaking, photos, postaday, rolled sugar cookies, WRONG!

Again.

I am so accustomed to being wrong. People tell me I am wrong all the time.

They say I pronounce words wrong, and I shrug.

I am a linguist . . .

They say I load my dishwasher wrong.

I offer them the job . . .

But in the kitchen, I am usually right. I love to cook from scratch and invent recipes. I love to eat and watch others loving eating. Since all my kids are spoiled with extraordinary food, they all have learned how to cook, at least the basics of my secrets, and have begged for my recipes, freely given, before they would move out — even all four of my sons.

So-o-o-o, when I get it wrong in the kitchen, I am miffed at myself. No excuse. You know how to do this and you just didn’t do it.

That’s how I talk.

How ironic that since I believe in no excuses in the kitchen, today the photo challenge should be “wrong”. Sighs.

Today I burned a whole pan of rolled sugar cookies. These are the fiddly ones you bake only when the grandkids are present, but I volunteered to donate these for a charity function, so had a nonchalance that proved expensive:

What can I say?

I could make excuses about an important phone conversation,

but I know to take the timer with me on such occasions.

But I didn’t.

Published by Katharine

Katharine is a writer, speaker, women's counselor, and professional mom. Happily married over 50 years to the same gorgeous guy. She loves cooking amazing homegrown food, celebrating grandbabies, her golden-egg-laying hennies, and watching old movies with popcorn. Her writing appears at Medium, Arkansas Women Bloggers, Contently, The Testimony Train, Taste Arkansas, Only in Arkansas, and in several professional magazines and one anthology. View more posts

9 thoughts on “Weekly Photo Challenge: Wrong”

Myra GB says:

August 10, 2012 at 11:27 pm

I love burnt cookies! We always set the timer a little later than usual because I like the crisp slightly-burnt taste. These cookies still look yummy and definitely edible!

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1. katharinetrauger says:
  
  August 10, 2012 at 11:37 pm
  
  Oh, I agree, Myra, and we will eat them, but not donate them.
  When I was little, I would pretend the slightly burnt ones were chocolate. The flavor was close enough for me, since we seldom got any real chocolate. 😉
  
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2. bats0711 says:
  
  August 11, 2012 at 7:39 am
  
  I am in total agreement with Myra’s comment!!!
  
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  1. katharinetrauger says:
    
    August 11, 2012 at 8:41 am
    
    Do you think they taste chocolate-y?
    
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Veronica Roth says:

August 11, 2012 at 9:12 am

Aw, bet they taste great! Lovely little story with your image. 🙂

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1. katharinetrauger says:
  
  August 11, 2012 at 10:19 pm
  
  Thanks so much for this kind comment, Veronica, and Welcome to Home’s Cool!
  Hope you enjoy your visit and return often.
  I think they taste good, although they are not perfect. 😉
  
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Kate Kresse says:

August 15, 2012 at 5:35 am

hey, i know this won’t surprise you but….i talk to myself like that, too! Ha! Don’t be too hard on yourself. next time you’ll hit it out of the park!

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1. katharinetrauger says:
  
  July 28, 2015 at 11:27 am
  
  No surprises, here!!!!! 😀
  However, these cookies were hard enough to hit something that far . . . 😉
  
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