Time to make the popovers! Sadie and I wanted to do something to remind us of Maine. The last time we visited Acadia National Park, we did not go to the Jordan Pond House Restaurant where they make delicious popovers.

We did a little research online and found an authentic Jordan Pond House Popover recipe. It seemed simply enough. After that , we cut a few critical corners and filmed the ill-fated attempt for YouTube.

Spoiler alert. The resulting popovers did not take us on a spiritual journey back to Acadia National Park.

Accordingly, I had to think on my feet and re-engineer this experience as having very little to do with the actual quality of our popovers. Rather, it is the bonding time between Father and Daughter on our quest to recreate Jordan Pond House-style popovers. The popover baking journey rather than the destination.

In that sense, it does not matter whether our popovers remind us of the Jordan Pond House or the Hulls Cove outhouse. Like Deepak Chopra (and maybe Bob Ross) said, embrace the imperfections!

Along the same lines, I quickly realized that even by the flimsy standards of Pinterest, I'd have a difficult time promoting this as a quality how-to-make-Jordan-Pond-House-Style-Popovers-at Home video. Thus, rather than be buried behind popover triumph videos put out by the likes of Martha Petha, Allie from throughherlookingglass.com, Martha Stewart, geniuskitchen.com and dozens of others, we are positioning our video as one of the premier popover fail videos. Allie has the following quote on her website header and I think it's appropriate to recreate it here. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

Please look at our Jordan Pond House-style popovers with a new set of eyes before jumping to any rash culinary conclusions. If Marcel Proust was alive, he would appreciate it!.

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