Side Dishes

The First Time I Screwed This Up… I made “salsa” by throwing some canned tomatoes, raw onion, and a sad squirt of lime juice into …

The First Time I Screwed This Up… I made these thinking “cheddar biscuits = mix it all and bake it.” So I melted the butter …

The first time I screwed this up… I grated potatoes straight into a bowl, dumped in egg and flour, and pan-fried them like a lazy …

The First Time I Screwed This Up… I thought Mornay sauce was just béchamel plus cheese—how hard could it be? Turns out, very, if you …

The First Time I Screwed This Up… I thought Bordelaise sauce was just “fancy red wine gravy.” So I grabbed a bottle of whatever red …

The First Time I Screwed This Up… I figured tomato butter sauce was just marinara with extra fat. So I threw canned tomatoes in a …

The First Time I Screwed This Up… I thought white bread was foolproof. Just flour, water, yeast—right? So I dumped everything in a bowl, kneaded …

The First Time I Screwed This Up… I thought Irish soda bread was “just throw it in a bowl and bake it.” No yeast, no …

The First Time I Screwed This Up… I thought focaccia was just pizza dough in a rectangle. So I skipped the olive oil bath, barely …

The First Time I Screwed This Up… I thought pea purée was a garnish—an afterthought. So I nuked some peas, blended them dry, tossed in …