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This was another Bon Appétit week, though with new job stuff taking up more time than I had anticipated it was not a big cooking week. I started with the White Chocolate Cupcakes with Candied Kumquats (if you're snowed in on a Sunday afternoon, why not bake?) and then made the Roasted Red Pepper Soup with Orange Cream (yay for my hand blender - see the soup picture here). Unfortunately these, like the other recipes I tried this week, were not as good as I expected them to be. The cupcakes were trying to be too many things at once (white chocolate, coconut milk and candied kumquats all together) and didn't live up to the hype. The coconut totally disappeared into the other flavors, and the cupcakes themselves didn't have the moist texture I was hoping for. Fortunately the wonderful icing and the candied kumquats almost totally made up for it. While I might not use the whole recipe again, I'll definitely use these two components. I especially love the kumquats - I've always loved them, just popped into my mouth as a little wake-up - and now I actually have something to do with them.
The soup had some of the same problems, but it somehow lacked the depth I was expecting. Though it had the zing of orange zest worked into the cream and the freshness of basil, the basic soup was kind of flat (and tasted entirely too much of jarred red peppers - though I don't know why that surprised me).
So what's going on? Have I lost my ability to pick recipes? I guess all I can do to find out is the same thing I always do after a bad week in the kitchen - just keep cooking.
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Posted by: Cassie at February 17, 2006 10:03 AM
I have had the same experience of cooking something that did not meet my expectations. I think you are becoming even more discerning and asking "why did this not work as I hoped?" Thanks for sharing what you learned. The kumquats are indeed very pretty!
Posted by: Andrea at February 19, 2006 12:48 PM
