Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Ok, I've officially had the worst baking day ever.

I'm actually a really good cook. I am. I swear! You'd never know it today, though, that's for sure.

I decided I was getting tired of eating dry cereal for breakfast. Years ago, I used to make "oatmeal breakfast cookies" - a single-serving concoction of oatmeal and applesauce, sweetened and baked, that was kind of between cookies and granola. I tried to recreate them from memory, and it was a disaster - just like little bricks. Into the garbage they went, strike one.

So I was browsing through fatfree.com, and I decided to try the Blueberry-Oatmeal Breakfast Cake... picturing all kinds of coffee-cake-like goodness. It cooled a little, I cut a piece, and... um, let's just say that "dense" isn't even strong enough of an adjective for this stuff. It was like chewing half-dried cement. Into the trash it went, strike two.

Finally, I decided to make Kree's cobbler, with a mixture of canned peaches (yes, well-drained) and fresh blueberries. Forty minutes of baking goes by, and it's not browned, but a toothpick comes out clean, so I take it out. I let it cool a little, I start to cut into it... and it's nothing but goo underneath. Unbaked, sticky batter-goo. I put it back in the oven for another half hour, and it's just getting gooier and gooier as the fruit breaks down. It's not in the trash yet, but I'm considering that strike three and I'm DONE in the kitchen for one day!

I give up! LOL

I almost put this in the recipe forum, but then I figured it would be better off in here, where more people could get a laugh at my expense.

Actually, I'm laughing too. Just a year ago, I was considering culinary school - maybe I should have gone after all, just to learn the basics all over again.

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