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What was your biggest cooking snafu?
Every time I make my gravy for pasta I think of the time I thought that Bay Leaf and Basil were the same thing.
I was about 19/20 and making a pasta recipe that called for chopped fresh basil. I only had dried bay leaf so I chopped up the required amount and added it to the recipe. Needless to say, it sucked.
So what was yours?
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Re: What was your biggest cooking snafu?
omg amy!!! that is terrible!!!! that poor guy! nothing as bad as you two, but i tried to make a fancy soup for my fancy bil and sil and put in wayyy too much pureed basil and olive oil. the soup turned green and tasted gross. sil was pg and starving and ate just bread. dh made pasta because he felt bad.
I hate salt.
The first time I made a cake from scratch I didn't put the salt in b/c, well, I hate salt. It tasted ok, it just looked really, really bad
When I was a young teen, my sister and I made a chocolate birthday cake for my Mom. After putting the chocolate frosting on the cake, we wanted to decorate it. We'd never watched Mom make her frosting, so we guessed at what she did. I loaded Mom's pastry decorating tube with Marshmallow Fluff.
My hand shook so bad, I couldn't believe that my Mom was able to pipe these beautiful designs with this tube! I managed to get a "snowflake" onto the cake before giving up.
The cake wasn't pretty, but it tasted wonderful. Mom laughed when she saw what we did! She taught us how to make her frosting after that: confectioners sugar + crisco + vanilla + water... and made us clean the pastry tube really well to get all the sticky fluff out of it!! (fortunately it dissolves/melts pretty well in hot water)
Hi ladies!
I don't post much but I needed to add my cooking snafu because it is sure to get a few chuckles out of everyone.
So I was home alone and wanted to make some of that fancy ramen soup stuff, the thai noodles kind. So I added the spices and stuff to the plastic container and put it in the microwave. Then I ran outside to take the dog out while it cooked.
When I got back in it smelled like my house was on fire.
I neglected to put water into the (dehydrated) soup.
I melted the plastic container it was in. The smell was AWFUL. And my house smelled like that for DAYS!
It's a real good thing that my DH is a fabulous cook!!!
-Haley
I've been MIA for a while as work has kept me hectic so I've been reading posts when I can, but I had to contribute here.
I have 2 hilarious ones:
1) When I was around 7 or 8 I think I tried to make peanut butter cookies from scratch for my uncle - he loved them, and I wasn't allowed to bake at home. I mixed up tablespoon and teaspoon for the salt and sugar, so I put a tablepoon of salt and a teaspoon of sugar (The recipe called for a tablespoon of sugar and a teaspoon of salt) so the cookies were AWFUL!
2) When I was a little older (12 or 13), I was home alone one day and wicked wanted popcorn, but we were out of the microwave bags. We had kernels, so I decided to make it on the stove. I didn't realize that corn syrup is different from vegetable oil and tried to use that....ha ha. NO. Not one pop and it ruined my mom's pan - it like burned kernals and corn syrup tar to the bottom of the pan. To this day I don't think I've ever used corn syrup again for anything. My mom still talks about this. I blame it on her though since she wouldn't let me in the kitchen or teach me to cook.
I cut the tip of my thumb off making chicken soup for a sick boyfriend in a snowstorm when I lived alone. It was fun driving to the ER in the snow with one hand all wrapped up!
A few years ago I asked my husband to add fresh rosemary to a crockpot pork dish when he got home, since he used to work earlier day shifts. He added like the whole bundle I got from the grocery store (seriously - a huge bunch of it). It tasted like Pine-Sol.
It took 5 failed IUIs and a failed IVF, but our FET worked!
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What's "engagement chicken"???
It was something silly from Glamour magazine. "Chicken so good he'll propose" Howard Stern even promoted it, haha
http://www.glamour.com/magazine/2006/07/engagement-chicken
Obviously I wasn't looking for a proposal just trying to cook a good Valentine's Day meal. Oh boy did it turn on me, haha.
I obviously did something wrong because it didn't cook all the way through, and tasted too much like lemon for my taste.
EDIT: Oh and we didn't fight because the chicken was awful. My husband would eat dirt and tell me it was good if I cooked it. This just added fuel to the fire. Didn't want you to think my husband was an asshat!!
I have managed on not 1 but 4 occasions to BURN the outside of a 'fresh' turkey and the inside didn't cook. It's gotten bad enough that my husband says "What's for dinner" I say "Turkey" and he says "Awesome, Pizza for dinner".
And no, please don't give me suggestions on how to fix it, the damn bird just fvcking hates me no matter what temp/time I cook it for. Next time I'm deep frying the sonofabitch.
1st. If I was a dude and my lady prepared me the "engagement chicken" I'd run away. It looks like it's birthing, if you ask me.
2. I don't think I've ever had a snafu really, and not in that "I don't make mistakes" type tone. I've made stuff that tasted awful, but it wasn't my fault. There was some chicken crockpot recipe that was on Pam's site that I tried.. and holy hell.. it just looked and tasted like you were eating puke Alpine chicken I think it was? It's off the site now.
hahaha, gross!!
Ha! This just reminded me of what my husband did just a few weeks ago (and he is an amazing cook) On vacation he was making pancakes for M, got out the bisquick, read the directions on the box and couldn't figure out why the batter looked so strange and they weren't cooking right. So he tried again. same thing. He finally realized that even though he was holding the bisquick box and reading it's directions he was measuring out a cup of regular flour instead of the mix, so basically he had made a flour & milk paste. yum. He can be a total space cadet sometimes.