So you have a food blog. That's awesome. Really, it is. I admire your creativity, your adventurous spirit, and your commitment to finding ways to make things like quinoa and kale taste halfway decent. On all those points, props to you food bloggers.
But, you know, maybe you're feeling a little pressured. Maybe it's Thursday night at 11:45pm, and you have only blogged one other time this week, and you really need to come up with some fantastic post for people do read during their workday on Friday, because let's face it, everybody wastes time during their work day on Fridays.
So, you quick whip something up, because their is NO WAY you are going to miss another day of posting. It's now midnight and you toss your Buffalo Chicken Blue Cheese Cajun Quinoa Lavender Kale Eggplant Truffle Bake in the oven, and you are psyched. This recipe is new. It's innovative. It's edgy. It's going to be great.
Except that it's not.
Maybe the spice balance wasn't quite right, maybe it just didn't have very much flavor, or maybe you realized that buffalo chicken and lavender just don't compliment each other that well. But now you're in a panic, and you know it's wrong, but...
...you post it anyway.
"It's ok," you tell yourself, "maybe nobody will even read this post. Maybe nobody will ever try it."
But then, you wake up on Friday morning and your comment feed is filled with things like "Awesome! SO trying this tonight," and "looks yummy- can't wait to give it a go!," and "DYING. I AM TOTALLY GOING HOME TO MAKE THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!!."
And before you know it, your sub-par recipe is all over Pinterest, and some poor sap like myself notices it, thinks to her self "yummo," and pins it for a rainy day. Then the rainy day comes and she dredges up that old pin, goes to the grocery store, and spends $75 on ingredients to make your Buffalo Chicken Blue Cheese Cajun Quinoa Lavender Kale Eggplant Truffle Bake.
She gets home, she makes it, and she discovers your dirty little secret: this recipe is terrible. Not just underwhelming, or bland, but really, truly awful. And now, although she only knows you by your blog name 'Super Nummy Biteykins' she hates you. She hates you for wasting her time, and her money, and that casserole dish she ruined trying to make your pile of dung recipe, and YOU food blogger should be ashamed.
So you made a recipe that tastes a little like cardboard. We get it. It happens to the best of us. But please, do us a favor and keep that craptastic thing to yourself. Resist the urge to hit "publish," and save the world from your terrible food creation. We promise, we'll love you for it.
-alison