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I get that Rachel Ray magazine, and it's ok, but I LOVE the one page where people write in and tell about kitchen disasters! Or how something they thought would turn out all wrong turned out to be a neat creation! Have you ever done that? I've had 2 experiences with that so far!
One time, I was making deep fried, beer-battered fish for my friends for dinner. I followed the directions perfectly, but for some reason, the fish fried together into a big, lumpy mess and wouldn't cook through the middle. So we threw it into a casserole dish and added some cheese..bam, fish casserole! HA! It was good, but I was pretty embarrased!
Then, on another group-get together, I made a "breakfast for dinner" kind of menu, and one of the items was bacon and egg lasagna. I used the easter eggs that Em and I had hard boiled in the casserole. Well, some of the egg dye bled into the egg from the shell, so I served a delicious tasting, but oddly colored casserole! It was pink and blue on top! HA!
Anybody else ever have anything funny happen in the kitchen?
At Easter I always make the deviled eggs out of the dyed eggs - they are very colorful - and everyone loves them!
We moved to a very small town for a while, a few years back. No Chinese restaurant - in fact it had only one restaurant. We love Chinese so I tried to make a few favorites. Everything was good except the crab cheese wontons - and they were beyond bad, lol. Not only were they bad but the mess I had after trying to make them was huge. I still get teased about that disaster. Also in this town was a woman who sold Pampered Chef and I had atteneded a few parties. I was usuing one of the spatulas to make my glass candy that I made every Christmas. I was being supervised by Daughter One - she loves the stuff and was wanting to help that year. As I'm stirring with my new spatula and we are chatting she says what's that white stuff? The spatula was melting! Oh my gosh, it was hilarious. Had to throw it all out and start over. She still will tease me when I make it now - hey Mom you aren't using a rubber spatula right? It WAS funny.
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I can remember many.
Once, my older sister added a tablespoon of salt to the brownies instead of a teaspoon. They were awful.
More than once I forgot to poke holes in the pie crust before baking and I got a big ol' puff ball in a pie plate for my crust!
I have, on occasion, grabbed the self-rising flour instead of the regular flour, added baking soda and have my baked item overflow to the bottom of the oven.
Can't tell you how many times the water boiled off of my veggies and they fried to the bottom of the pot. I did that a few times back in the day when we boiled the nipples to the baby bottles. Nothing worse than fried rubber smell wafting through the house. I threw a couple of sauce pans away because of fried nipples.
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