Food Blogging Vs. Real Life

Sometimes this happens: I’m cooking dinner, working on something interesting and delicious and thinking about what I’ll write about later on the blog, maybe even imagining what sort of picture I’ll take for the post to illustrate this dinner. Meanwhile the entire family is circling the kitchen like sharks or maybe underfed wolves, asking what’s for dinner, when it’ll be ready, can they have something to eat right this minute right now, when is dinner when is dinner when is dinner. Then suddenly the food is done, its plated up, on the table and then we’re all practically inhaling the yummy food.

Of course in the aftermath of dinner I realized that this is the only evidence of the chow mein we all devoured:

Especially for my blogging friends – has this ever happened to you? What did you do – improvise a picture, remake the dinner, scrap the blog post or something else?