- Before Isaac and I were even dating, when I had known him for only 3 weeks, I burnt toast for him.
- When I first married, I was afraid of rapidly boiling water. (It actually took me several years to get over this, and only this last year have I learned to saute on the stovetop.) Anyway, I made a dinner with rice for Isaac, and planned to serve it at 9:00pm. Because I refused to rapidly boil the water, the rice wasn't ready until after 11:00!
- I made brownies from a mix for Isaac and some of his high school friends. I forgot to add the water, and one of his friends had to tell me what was wrong! (Way to impress him, huh?)
- A few years later, this same friend and his wife were coming over for dinner after we all went to a football game together. I proudly had a soup all ready in the Crockpot for when we came home. However, I was out of evaporated milk and had substituted sweetened condensed milk. (Those products cannot be substituted for each other!) We had to throw away the whole pot and order pizza instead.
- I messed up hard-boiled eggs just a few months ago and didn't boil them hard enough. They were runny and I had to throw the whole dozen away.
- A few other meals that I've tried have simply tasted horrible. We suffered through most of them, but we did have to dump a few of the more notable disasters (mushroom-barley soup and the lemon chicken I blogged about previously).
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Cooking Mishaps
I was whipping up brownies this evening (from a mix) and started thinking about some of my cooking mishaps. Here they are, for your enjoyment, in no particular order:
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so i have to admit that it makes me feel good inside that you mess up. although i know you, and know that you are not perfect, sometimes i feel like you are. (this is a compliment as i think very highly of you and look up to you and isaac).
i'm pretty sure that most have heard my cooking mishaps but here's the one that sticks out most to me. i once burned the outside of of some bread rolls and when i cracked them open the roll the inside was still dough... and a bit runny at that.
Off the top of my head, just recently I put 1 TABLESPOON of salt in a pancake recipe. I was doing it from memory, and somehow the amount that came to mind was a tablespoon.
Needless to say, we threw them out.
I forgot about another good one. I was making Nut Goodie Bars, really delicious with REALLY expensive ingredients. I didn't know that "2#" meant two pounds, and kepts using cups instead. I threw out two entire batches before my mother figured out my mistake.
I've forgotten water in the brownie mix before too...we chiseled them apart with a knife. It was embarrassing.
Apparently water is my weak link. Another time I was making gravy from a mix, and for some reason I read '2 quarts' instead of '2 cups' of water. Oops!
One time I made a meatball dish but forgot to drain the grease before I added the sauce. Yeah - that was kind of gross.... And then I gave up cooking. :-)
Been there on the evaporated milk - sweetened condenses milk mix-up. The Wild Rice Soup I was making tasted awful! Plus the wild rice hadn't been cooked long enough either.
Just last week I was making scones for our bible study, and I had told them instead of sweet, I'd try to turn them into garlic-cheese. Well, I was just going along with the recipe and dumped in the sugar right before I veered off to experiment and dumped in the garlic. (Nasty!) Only I double-messed-up and grabbed the wrong package, so it was cornstarch instead of garlic. (What a mess!). So actually, they were fine, other than a little starchy.
Yikes! Those are not fun. I am more the type of person to strain something over the strainer in the sink when what I really wanted was the juice I was straining not the chunks left in the strainer. Lately smoke is my problem. I have set the fire alarm off, no joke, four times in the last month. Now that the house is closed up for cooler weather that bacon grease and random sauteing on the stove is scaring Seth that we need a fire station out back!
I've attempted to make my mom's chocolate pie at least 5 times and the result is always chocolate soup inside a pie crust. I've since given up. I'm also known for my gourmet blackened grilled cheese and also my extra crispy crunchy bacon. When we were newly married, I was determined to try out some new recipes, as all good housewives do, right? So after consuming just 1 of my homemade sweet and sour meatballs (and I think I made at least 30 of these things), Ben looks at me and says "These are really, really, good, but you don't have to make them again."
Wow, there are a lot of cooking mishaps shared here. My latest "mistake" was when I made spicy spaghetti. Jen made it very clear to me that spaghetti should never ever be spicy. I still think it was some of the best spaghetti I ever made.
I do remember making a loaf of bread that was more of a rock of bread. As I recall, I used "rye" flower instead of normal bread flower. I figured that flower is flower, and just substituted rye 1:1 for another recipe. Aparently all bread flower is not made the same.
Last night I wanted to make beef and spinach burritos. I'm currently dairy free, so I already had to eliminate the cheese and sour cream. I didn't have any spinach either, so I used kale (much stronger taste.) After I had done everything but add the salsa, I realized I didn't have any salsa either so I dumped in a can of corn.
We suffered through it. :(
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