On 2014-01-02 16:33:09 +0000, Ophelia said:

>> I can interpret recipes well enough to know whether I should bother
>> with making it or not. So, no, I wouldn't have made it in the first
>> place and there would be nothing to rescue. :-)
>
> Of course as would I, but not everyone can.

It's just a question of cooking more. The more you do anything the
better you are at recovering your balance when you lose it, finding
interim solutions to interim problems, and so forth.

As I've said many times, it's not until I hear my wife say "oh hell" in
the kitchen, that I realize I'm going to get something more creative
that either of us likely expected. And it's almost always good!