I was not in the right frame of mind today when I saw the Steemit Culinary Challenge "Vegan Dishes From Around The Globe." I made so many critical mistakes that did not abide by the challenge rules. Please forgive me, 
Since there's no way in heaven that my submission would qualify for the contest, I decided to write a FAIL post instead.
So, here's how to create a fail submission for any Steemit Culinary Challenge, by 
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(1) Don't bother to stick completely within the theme.
The theme for this week's challenge is "Vegan Dishes From Around The Globe", with a clear requirement for a dish that represents your home country by incorporating typically local ingredients! Now for all those multi-nationality kids out there, they have the liberty to mix and match perhaps. This isn't stated in black and white, so an eye could be closed!
However for me, I failed completely. None of the ingredients I used are typical of Singapore except chicken eggs.
NEWS FLASH: VEGANS DON'T EAT EGGS! (In my defence, I did buy Vegan cheese to grate into my salad)
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(2) Conveniently photograph only a few steps of your recipe.
It's spelled out here.
"TAKE PHOTOS OF THE STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS in preparing your dish."
I typically do this even for my personal recipe posts that aren't challenge submissions. However, this time round, I'm not sure what possessed me. I overlooked the painstaking photography of each individual step!
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(3) Forget to include your Steemit Card Sign in every photo.
As if forgetting to take a photo of every step was not bad enough! I only remembered that I had to include a placard bodyguard in each photo when I was in the middle of mixing up all the ingredients. These two photos that I took before that thought occurred to me look very forlorn, don't they?
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(4) Write down "Steemit Culinary Challenge #38", but leave out your dish name.
No explanation necessary. Look at my title, why don't you? ;)
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(5) Include lots of text, but not the recipe.
I'm not including the recipe because while my Vegan Vegetarian Couscous Salad tasted healthy and edible, I personally did not find it mouthgasmicly good.
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All in all, very badly done, ! Better luck to me next time!
P.S. I am by no means proud of my ability to break so many rules without noticing. Neither am I proud of my lack of accurate knowledge on the vegan diet and what it entails. Nevertheless, I want to share my failure for all (me included) to learn from. It would also be a waste of the photos I made and an hour of cookery if I didn't at least post something.
P.P.S. In my credit, I did create a new recipe of my own, and I used the required tags. Two little yay's for me then! :)