Learning to be a beekeeper is a constant struggle. I keep reading books and asking for advice but I think it is true that you learn best from your mistakes. Or do you …
This is not a bee story but it is a story of learning and it makes me laugh every time I recall it.
Neither Heidi and I are very good cooks … but we do own a lot of recipe books and one day Heidi decided to learn some “signature dishes”. She chose to make a lemon cheese cake but when I got home even I was surprised at what I found. Heidi evidently did not know what lemon zest was. She had unpeeled the lemon and painstakingly picked out the white pith on the inside of the lemon skin and added that to the ingredients. It was too late. The cheesecake was in the oven. Despite my concerns, she proudly served up the cake to my unsuspecting parents insisting the pith was softer than the outerskin of the lemons so surely it must be better. To be fair even stringy cheese cake is surprisingly edible.
Anyway, I thought Heidi had learnt from this and she now knew her zest from her pith. But when she made fish cakes last week I realised she still did not fully appreciate where the zest ended and the pith started. Yes, the fishcakes contained the zest of lemon but the lemon was now bald and the fishcakes also contained all the pith on the lemon.
So maybe we don’t always learn from our mistakes but I find these cooking episodes rather endearing.
On a similar note, this is a carrot cake she made recently:
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