My wife and I decided to make some completely home-made pizza last night. The closest we'd come before was store bought shells and store bought sauce.

We found a sauce recipe we liked and I made that, and we found a dough recipe that looked good and tried that.

First time in the dough was a disaster. Whether the internet sourced recipe was a dud (which is unfortunately too common. Speaking of internet recipes, many try to immortalize themselves by modifying a common recipe slightly, adding their surname on it -- e.g. Dennis' Pizza Dough -- and casting it as their own. Just an observation there), or one of the ingredients was wrong, a mess emerged from the bread maker's dough cycle.

It was getting late (remember that the dough cycle takes 1 hour 45 minutes), and the easy option would have been to run to the store and buy a premade shell, but inevitably that would have meant that we would have soured ourselves on home-made dough. So instead we gave the kids something different for dinner, found another recipe, and tried again. This time the results were much better, and now we can modify the recipe to make exactly, precisely the dough we want. Wonderful. I can't wait to try all of the possibilities (and we'll probably make it tonight as well. I'd love to try a calzone as well)

We got back on the horse after it kicked us off.

The same thing happened when we tried making Nanaimo bars. Time after time the chocolate/egg mixtures started terribly clumping into a disastrous mess, but we kept trying. Eventually we got the right speed and temperature, and made some amazing little treats, opening up lots of options for us in that realm as well.