Vege gone wrong!

I fell for it again. Seeing a delicious and beautiful, perfect food created with just a few ingredients and photographed then posted to social media and thinking I could do that!

Some of the recipes even have a video, showing how easily the mango will fall away from its seed, the avocado from its seed, the pineapple, the watermelon, the egg perfectly boiled and peeled. The apple rosette, the olive stuffed penguins.  I try the recipes that look simple enough and beautiful to impress, but they are either gross or a total fail.

I decided to do zucchini chips. How hard could it be? Slice, season, oil and bake. I followed the directions exactly. Epic fail and gross to taste. I ate the first "chip" but it was just chewy and not chip like at all, not puffy and golden as pictured,  but other than it gagged me. Then I thought maybe it was a fluke. It looked kinda like the photo-just flat and black, so I gave it another taste. Spit that out and then I realized most of the problem was the smell. Two days later and I still smell the dang things, the odor lingering like charred popcorn in the microwave.

Spending the day descenting and destroying any and all evidence that I experimented with the vegetable and wish I had just sautéed the zucchini like I usually do and ate it old school.

I don't know what strength of Febreeze is being touted on the commercials that absorbs all odors and the people are blindfolded and surrounded by trash and cat litter unaffected by the odors, but I'm writing the company and calling them out on their bogus propaganda. It isn't working and I'm resorting to spraying the stuff on the ceilings and ovens and my tongue. Relying on the old fashioned bowl of vinegar to suck away the odor of the vege gone wrong!