That's like the ultimate kind of like Rorschach test of like, you know, what personality type you have, like who are you blaming?

Yeah, when something goes wrong.

Well, I blamed the recipe and then called in a podcast to help me figure it out.

So what does that say about me?

Well balanced.

Hey there, listeners, future callers, and cooking enthusiasts.

Welcome to Dinner S.O.S.

The show where we help you save dinner, or whatever you're cooking.

I'm Chris Morocco, food director of Bonapetit and Epicureus.

In order to properly introduce you to this week's caller, Aaron, I'm going to have to take you all the way back to Thanksgiving.

We did Thanksgiving with a group of friends and I'm not a huge fan of like traditional

Thanksgiving food and namely pumpkin pie is just a no go for me.

Okay did I already like go on a pumpkin pie tear? You did and I appreciated it. Like I appreciated it deeply. I always say like

pumpkin pie looks like you already ate it. That's why I don't like it. So not a pumpkin pie girl, but I was trying to be, you know, still festive and

celebratory and whatever.

So Aaron, with her perfect taste in pie,

that just so happens to align exactly with mine.

But whatever, signed up to make a lemon meringue pie instead.

Now, I've never made a lemon meringue pie before, but I'm very familiar with lemon curd.

Like that was a huge thing in my house and I've made all sort of riffs on curd of all kinds. And I love

meringue. I like to do Pavlovas for my birthday. I I've made Morang a lot.

So I felt confident, like it's two things that I know pretty well.

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