Real Life at the Jeongs

Today,

I was going to make homemade biscuits for the first time.

I lined up the ingredients real nice, so you could see everything that went into my biscuits...

And then, pleasantly surprised at how fast I got done, I stuck the two trays in the oven and turned on a Friends rerun to watch while waiting.

Three minutes into baking, my oven started smoking. And suddenly, I noticed that our whole apartment looked hazy and smelled like burning wax.

I yelled for YS, and just as he ran the 5 steps from the bedroom to our kitchen, the fire alarm started ringing. Great. A visit from 911 to start off our vacation.

Thankfully, it wasn't a fire (whew!) and we were able to turn off the alarm by wildly fanning the air under it with our pillow; and I rushed my two trays of half-baked biscuits outside to cool off.

What is the lesson you can gain from this? You probably should not use wax paper as "cookie sheets" when lining your baking trays, especially when the baking temperature is quite high (like 450 F). That's the only thing that burned and smelled, so I assume that was the problem.

When I started this blog, I resolved to share both the goodies and the mess-ups of my life - recipes included. So here you are: one major mistake that you should learn from and not repeat.

There is a time for second chances, though! I will re-try these tomorrow morning. From the half-baked biscuit that I tried (and then spat out at my husband's command), the taste was promising! Maybe tomorrow I'll add some herbs and garlic... Stay tuned!

Now if someone could just tell me how to get rid of that awful burning wax smell...

::Edit: I just realized that my laptop deleted the 2 photos that I uploaded from my camera, after I deleted the photos off my memory card. Ah, well. Tomorrow will be a new day for photos too.::