Baking Failure :(

Hey Guys,
Good morning. Hope you guys had a great day yesterday! Thanks for all the encouragement yesterday about my feelings on the meals of other healthy bloggers. As silly as it was, it was wholehearted honesty. It really helps to know that you guys are listening and are willing to offer your words of wisdom! So keep reading! I always like to know who is reading and would love to follow you, your meals and your thoughts! Making new friends for me is what my blog is all about, and I am so grateful to have made a faithful few (Christina, Sarah, Haphazard Inspiration, Laurie and Kelsey) in the last few weeks! :-) You guys rock!

So onto my yesterday...

Notice that I have not been posting many meals on my blog this week like I did last week. That is because I work one heavy week (70 hrs) and a light week (10 hrs). When I work a heavy week, all of my meals usually take place right before work and during work. It's easy to photograph all of them when they are grouped together like that, and I am still getting used to blogging and developing my own style. When I am on my light week, I tend to make dinner every night as well, and usually (very badly) skip lunch....which is something that I need to work on! And when I do eat lunch, it's usually, yep you know me well now...leftovers from dinner. I decided to shake things up a bit! So this week you guys are seeing my experiments with healthy foods at dinner time with my husband!

Yesterday though, I decided that I was bored midday, and wanted to bake something. Lo and behold, Tina had a recipe for Sweet Potato Blondies around lunch time that I decided to try, sounds great, huh?....epic fail.

I got all my ingredients together from her list: EXCEPT that I only had white flour.

Then I looked around and realized that I didn't have the right pan that her recipe called for, so I decided to double the recipe and make kind of a bread of sorts instead of bars (because this pan was waaay bigger).

into the bowl they went...

swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, mix, mix, mix...

into the bundt pan...looks good so far, right? you just wait...it's comin'

yuummy? not quite, hold tight...this is only what it looked like right out of the oven.                    fluffy, doughy goodness...

...then it happened...it fell dramatically in the ten minutes that it was cooling

...and turned into this weird kinda flat doughy thing that fell right out of the pan, and was pretty much uncuttable...I had to rip it up in pieces.

looks ok, but tasted verrrry funky.

I guess the flour choice really does make a huge difference. Lesson learned. On to more tasty things: Dinner!

I had been weirdly craving hot dogs lately (nope, not preggo yet, but thanks for thinking of me), and I literally have not had a hot dog in years and as an adult coming to know what they really are, have grown to be quite disgusted by them....but cravings are cravings...so I decided to try something new for our meatless options: Veggie Dogs!

...and with only 45 calories, no fat and 8 grams of protein, how can you beat that?

I split one for myself on a whole wheat bun, half with mustard and relish, and the other half with some shredded cheese. I paired the dogs with a side salad and some roasted butternut squash. This was the first time we had this also, and surprisingly they tasted a lot like sweet potatoes, with waaay less calories! More bang for the buck, sign me up!

The dogs tasted like a light version of a real hot dog, and smelled exactly like one. So we were very happy, craving satisfied! :-)

This was a nice and light dinner, and a happy ending to my cooking disaster of the day!

My Question for You: What was your biggest cooking disaster? ;-)