Successes and Failures

I will admit, when I started this "journey" I fully expected to fail.  My mom has told me, out of all of her children, I was the one she never expected to pick up cooking and run with it.  And yet, here I am, cooking away.  

I have another thing to admit though:  after my successes in the beginning, I began to think that I was too good at cooking to fail. But, boy, was I wrong.  Here are some pictures of the successes...and the failures:

This was my first major success...Chicken Parmesan

For my first time cooking dinner for guests, I made my mom's best recipe: Crescent Chicken

And the dessert for my guests? Individual Molten Lava Cakes!

By far my favorite thing (and impossibly healthy too): Peach and Blueberry Cobbler with Ginger and Cinnamon

And of course...there are the failures, such as this attempt at a Spinach and Salsa Omelet

and my biggest disappointment of all...brownies.  The picture on the left is what they are supposed to look like.  Mine looked and tasted gross.

But despite my failures, I have had some pretty amazing successes.  And those small successes, or victories as I like to call them, make this whole journey worthwhile.  Because even when I fail and (in my mind) waste good ingredients on these failures, I know that down the road there is another victory just waiting for me.  Cheesy? Yes.  True?  Absolutely.