99: How to Fix Dinner When You've Messed Up

Didn't I Just Feed You

Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn

Food, Kids & Family, Arts, Parenting

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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We’ve got 99 problems and messing up dinner is one. No, seriously. We mess up dinner, too, and so do the chefs, cookbook authors, and culinary professionals we interview. So this week, we’re going to share how all of us save a meal that we’ve messed up. Too spicy? To salty? Kinda bland? Here’s what you need to do.

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0:32.3	When I mess up dinner, I change the name to adjust expectations. I have, seriously, it really worked. So, you know,
0:40.9	when you burn something, you don't burn it. You've blackened it. Ah, yes. When you, yeah, right?
0:45.5	Like, when you make something too spicy, you just call it spicy. Oh, those meatballs are supposed to
0:49.7	taste like that. Or when I have served bitter eggplant salad I'm like yeah that bitterness
0:54.4	that's part of it yeah absolutely if you adjust expectations people are prepared
0:59.7	and then it seems to taste better plus chances are you as the cook are gonna be a
1:05.0	lot less forgiving of what you've made because you had you knew what it was in your
1:09.4	head when you started your family didn you started. Your family didn't.
1:11.4	That's true.
1:11.8	Your family didn't.
1:12.9	So adjust your expectations.
1:14.8	Let them adjust theirs.
1:16.1	And chances are dinner is a lot better than you think.
1:18.7	You probably didn't mess up that badly.
1:21.7	Welcome to didn't I just feed you.
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