Things I learned from this week's Resolution Recipe attempts

[madbaker]

1. Do not attempt a complex, multi-step recipe on a weeknight, especially when work has been extremely hectic and you are leaving late.
2. Do not substitute different cuts of meat "because that's what they had".  Different cuts do not cook identically.
3. You do not know how to fold into liquids properly.  A cake recipe that is only leavened by whipped eggs, when said whipped eggs are deflated by improper dry ingredient folding, becomes a brick.  A tasty brick, but still a brick.

Yes, I did know some of these already.  That makes it worse.