zoesmom, I'm just going to follow you around with a knife and fork.

LOL! Better not. It makes you weight close to 300 pounds!

There was I think a Food Network recipe for 'easy mole'. Mole is REALLY hard to make. I thought no way. BUT.....it had like 30-40 reviews and almost 5 stars.

My wife and I are both pretty good when it comes to following directions. Anyhow we made it and it tasted like cr_p. So yeah 'easy mole' was too good to be true.

I am both curious and disturbed by this...

I am pretty sure it was this one:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/m...ipe/index.html

It doesn't sound that easy in retrospect. But for mole it is. We even got the exact chiles and chocolate. It didn't help, it was pretty awful. Maybe you'd have more success though.

Thanks. I'll have to find a day I am willing to "cheat" to work on it. I already know I would cut the peanut butter down. P.B. has such a strong flavor that it easily masks everything else. And I'd probably use unsweetened cocoa instead of Mexican chocolate. That stuff tastes...waxy

A friend from El Paso said they use Dona Maria mole sauce when in a hurry and it tastes pretty good. I think that will be my go to easy mole from now on.

Thanks for reminding me to find new recipes

Flop story:
I found a blog once with lots of recipes for low-carb baked goods.

I tried quite a few of them, did exactly what the instructions said - All of them turned out awful or just rock hard....I'm thinking it was the recipes, not my ability to cook, that was the problem.

I am sure I have dozens of awesome flop stories, but somehow my brain has repressed all my culinary failures. Maybe 1 out of 8 new recipes I try, I really don't care for / am severely disappointed with how it turns out - but I don't regard that as a poor failure rate. I look at it as the price of admission for adventurous cooking. If I can recall any more specific catastrophic failures I'll post again.

Thanks for all the new websites! That tofu-"alfredo" sauce sounds amazingggg.