poorly people make poorly food

Never cook when you are poorly. I must remember this and stick to it. I couldn't even read the recipe with any clarity let alone taste anything.
Yesterdays cook-cock-ups consisted of two failed pastry tart cases, a medicinal flavoured lemon meringue pie filling and a runny and rather tasteless Tiramisu. Why I didn't stick to the simple cheesecake I thought I would make I will never know. Is it because I along with many others, still associate cheesecake's with the shop bought ones; solid margarine tainted base with a gloppy topping of citric lard? I think it's these awful reproductions that have destroyed our conceptions of some good old fashioned puddings.