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With so many ingredients, seasonings and specific skills involved, there are plenty of opportunities for your dinner party to turn into a disaster before the guests arrive. That dish or dessert destined for social media fame can easily end up in your trash bin.Although the foodie television boom offers plenty of ideas for recipes and helpful cooking tips, shows like MasterChef often feature experienced chefs cracking under pressure.
Sunday night at the Wedgwood household was always roast night. Prime rib. Roast turkey. Pork loin with apple sauce. Savoury stuffed chickens. Ham and scalloped potatoes. “I would stop short of calling it a dire situation, but it wasn't good,” he said. “I ended up using some phyllo pastry and turned the dessert into cheesecake spring rolls with Toblerone chocolate ganache and ice cream. Mistakes happen, and you've got to be able to roll with the punches.”No stranger to rolling with the punches, small business owner Jenny Rockett grew up punching dough with her grandmother.“She made the best white bread,” Rockett said.
“There was nothing I could do but panic, be mortified and suggest that they move up the cake cutting, which, thankfully, they did. I learned the hard way about the importance of stabilizing the cake tiers with dowels and never again made a summer wedding cake with a soft, creamy icing.”As those stories show, it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to flip a food flop in your favour. Prep, patience and perseverance are key.
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