Two (actually, three since I did one of them twice) things I've done in the last few days have been pretty much absolute failures.

First, the seemingly hilarious project I was working on. Cute? yes. Funny? yes. Do I love it? yes.

Then why, you ask, is it a failure?

I give you Exhibit A:

Hate wouldnt exactly be a strong enough word to describe munch's feelings toward her hallowig. I saw alison over at the blue blog knit one up for her little girl and it was so incredibly adorable and fun I had to knit one up myself. After all--her baby girl loved hers! I used her alterations at first but it came out much too small, so I added 4 stitches to each section. It came out perfectly but it might as well be made out of steel wool as far as Munch is concerned.

I'm still holding out hope that she will come around by the time the weather changes....

Crappiness the second was a quickie desert I tried to whip up one night after a failed dinner attempt (I didnt even get far enough to take a picture...lets just say, it is awfully hard to make baked ziti without pasta sauce and no matter how many times you look in the pantry, it wont magically appear if you didnt actually buy any.) We ended up ordering out and I thought I'd save face by making Frozen Berries with Hot White Chocolate from one of Ina Garten's Cookbooks.

They looked tasty:

I just did everything wrong on this one. Super-cook that I am I thought I didnt have to go actually *look* at the recipe again. After all--the name of the recipe said it all! Berries. check. chocolate. check. heck--it even went so far as to be specific on the white part of the chocolate.

So now, looking back at the recipe, I didnt add the cream to the chocolate and I used strawberries which stayed far, far too frozen to actually be able to eat despite the thawing power of a mound of hot white chocolate. The chocolate topping wasnt bad--but it solidified the second it hit the frozen berries... Mr. Fruitychick tried to humor me by eating a few berries but eventually gave up before he cracked a tooth.

ugh. next time--only slightly frozen smaller berries and make an actual chocolate-cream sauce instead of just melted chocolate. And maybe I'll dig out the cookbook and actually read the recipe....