Using What I Have Journal Entry #3: The Blondies That Didn't Go According to Plan

Things don't always turn out the way we want. I had a meeting at work and, as the person leading the meeting, for reasons I won't go into here, it was seemingly a time to bring treats. I had some bananas that needed using, so I made a new-to-me recipe for vegan banana blondies.

They were a disaster. They said to underbake them, so I did; I guess I underbaked them a bit too much. It also said you could use regular all-purpose flour, though it called for gluten free; that turned it into more of a denser-than-one-wants cake than a fudgy, blondie texture. (Or perhaps the original recipe was going for that. I don't know.) And it wasn't even very sweet--more of a breakfast item than dessert.

So I apologized to my colleagues, went to work empty-handed, and proceeded to make lemonade out of my lemons and ended up making three good breakfasts out of these blondies.

If I microwaved the blondies a bit, they didn't have raw patches, which was nice. I cut a few up into chunks and put them in a bowl with some non-dairy yogurt, peanut butter, and Cara Cara orange slices. This was fine with some herbal tea--neither super exiting, nor sad.

I was also eating bits of these blondies as snacks, and they seemed dry and not-sweet-enough, so I tried one with some tart cherry butter. This was great, and inspired the next breakfast.

Here we have clementine segments with kiwi chunks, more non-dairy yogurt mixed with chocolate tahini, some decaf spice tea with soy milk, and some blondies with tart cherry butter. Of all the breakfasts I made with my failed blondies, this was probably my favorite. Still, I was up for trying something new, too.

So for my final blondie morning, I made sandwiches with the blondies, filled with tart cherry butter and mixed nut and seed butter. I had those with non-dairy yogurt on the side and some herbal tea (not shown).

Ultimately, I got through the blondies and I didn't waste things, which was great. It was sad that I didn't get to bring snacks to my colleagues, but you can't always have everything go perfectly. Maybe I shouldn't have tempted fate by using a new recipe.

However, I used up some bananas, had several breakfasts and snacks, and avoided grocery shopping for the sake of making desserts for people, so maybe this is really a win.

And on the "teaching myself to accept getting low on things" front, I am also now nearly out of flour. That does feel a little weird, but I also know I can get more easily, and I am having pretty good success with reassuring myself about that. Flour isn't that scary--I can get that basically everywhere--so that may be why. Go figure.

So here's to failure and success.