The Odessa Record -

Recipes do fail. Recently I tried a recipe for orange cake with fresh orange syrup. It was circulating the Internet last December. Taking into consideration different tastes among folks, this recipe still falls in the flop category. You won’t find the recipe repeated here, and it will soon disappear from my Pinterest “To Try” board.

It is very, very heavy, dense, overly sweet, yet lacking flavor. You can eat it, but it’s not worth wasting calories on, nor time figuring how to improve the recipe.

Crispy Baked Shrimp Scampi was a great success. The recipe comes from the site www.cafed...