{"id":13390,"date":"2011-04-18T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T15:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=13390"},"modified":"2011-04-18T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T15:21:04","slug":"flipping-a-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2011\/04\/flipping-a-flop\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipping A Flop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I recently made my first purchase of coconut flour and it arrived in the mail last week.\u00a0 I was anxious to get started using it! I’ve seen others use it in the past and all the claims state that you can use it just like you would regular flour.\u00a0 It smelled amazing and I decided that the first thing I was going to do with it was make something familiar, so I choose pancakes.<\/p>\n

What I discovered was that coconut flour does not in fact, act like regular flour.\u00a0 Different flours have different characteristics and act in different ways when liquid is introduced.\u00a0 I can roll with that.\u00a0 Coconut flour was not playing nicely yesterday.<\/p>\n

My pancake experiment turned into a big gloppy mess.\u00a0 I had to toss the mixture and start over.<\/p>\n

I nixed the coconut flour deciding that I would research it a tad more first and then try and use it when I have a little more information under my belt.<\/p>\n

Instead I made a batch of spelt and buckwheat pancakes (my fave flour combo for pancakes!) but I made them a little differently and got to experiment with an idea that had been playing around in my head for a while.<\/p>\n

They turned out to be one of my best pancakes to date.\u00a0 They were so good that you could eat them without maple syrup, all they needed was a touch of butter.\u00a0 I still used syrup of course, it was Sunday breakfast after all!<\/p>\n

I love when this happens! When something good comes out of a kitchen flop.<\/p>\n

Kitchen flops happen to everybody.<\/strong> This is what creates experience and knowledge.\u00a0 Every single person has a kitchen flop story and some of those people brush it off and move on.\u00a0 Others let it dictate their lives and refuse to cook or suddenly “hate” cooking.\u00a0 All because of one or two flops.<\/p>\n

Flops happen. You can’t learn something unless you have both good experiences and bad.\u00a0 Flops keep us grounded.\u00a0 Flops help us realize that we’ll never know it all and that cooking, just like life, is a constant learning experience. It’s full of ups, downs, and all-arounds.<\/p>\n

Don’t let a flop keep you from cooking. Brush yourself off and move on, because something great could be right around the corner.<\/p>\n

What was your last flop? How did you handle it?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently made my first purchase of coconut flour and it arrived in the mail last week.\u00a0 I was anxious to get started using it! I’ve seen others use it in the past and all the claims state that you can use it just like you would regular flour.\u00a0 It smelled amazing and I decided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3tY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}