{"id":22,"date":"2018-01-06T01:36:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T01:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christiniacrippes.com\/food\/?p=22"},"modified":"2018-01-13T01:56:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T01:56:43","slug":"in-with-a-fizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christiniacrippes.com\/food\/2018\/01\/06\/in-with-a-fizzle\/","title":{"rendered":"In with a fizzle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy 2018!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been blogging about food for a decade now, but this is the first time my platform has been my own. If you\u2019re a follower of my work the past few years, the format is going to be mostly the same. If you\u2019re new here, my blogging habits are a weekly adventure in a common theme for a year.<\/p>\n

In the past I\u2019ve done pies, breads, casseroles, and soups and salads. This year I\u2019m taking Mom\u2019s advice, and I\u2019m going to start doing a year using a common kitchen item. Starting with my underutilized sheet pan. (Still taking suggestions for 2019.)<\/p>\n

The point of the exercise, aside from enjoying good food and filling my body with nutrients, is to show the versatility of the cookware already lurking in most kitchens.<\/p>\n

I thought I\u2019d start off with something easy — peanut brittle — and managed to bungle it both times. Alas.<\/p>\n

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Peanut brittle ingredients<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It made me think some about failure, which I might address in a future blog post. But for now, it\u2019s best to just quote the man from Indiana, John Mellencamp: \u201cWhat is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

I feel the same way about cooking, and in particular about this week\u2019s failure. If I had given up making candy the first time I failed at it, I would have stopped trying in about 7th grade, when I determinedly failed to make taffy. And I\u2019ve totally successfully made peanut brittle before; it just didn\u2019t work out that way this time.<\/p>\n

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This picture, while not great, shows not-quite-right peanut brittle. You can see bending of the candy rather than the brittleness implied in the name.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Impatience and inattention have been my downfalls, but you know what, I\u2019ve got a whole year to keep succeeding at sheet pan recipes. Or getting up off the mat and trying again.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here\u2019s what I should have done with peanut brittle and actually listened to Betty Crocker\u2019s sage advice:<\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n