She may be a two-time best-selling cookbook author of Dinner and Tonight plus the founder of beloved food blog RecipeTin Eats, but that doesn’t mean Nagi Maehashi is immune to kitchen disasters. She recently took to Instagram to let her followers know she was having a day after having trouble with a mango recipe she was developing.
“I cannot remember the last time I lost my mojo so badly,” she said in an Instagram story, revealing what appeared to be an impressive, mango-flavoured cake. “Oh, today has been a disaster, disaster!”
According to Nagi, the cake ticked all the boxes except the most important one: taste. A caption on the story read “Looked great, filmed great, photographed great, tasted average.” It’s “NOT BLOG WORTHY,” she declared.
Luckily, all was not lost. Dozer was assigned to clean up duty, happily munching away at slices of fresh mango that hadn’t made it into the final dish.
While it may be back to the drawing board for Nagi on this particular recipe, we know its moments like these that make the recipes she publishes so good. “Reality of what I do is that some days are successes, others not so much … Yesterday was a particularly unsuccessful day and I was so despondent I was genuinely worried I’ve lost my cooking mojo,” her Instagram post began. “But then, I woke up today with renewed vigor and inspo hit!”
Her relatable kitchen confession couldn’t have come at a better time, and is a motivating message to keep in mind as the new year kicks off. “Can’t win ‘em all!” she wrote, adding “When you hit bad patches, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES and keep going.”
