VALERIE (V.M.) BURNS: A year ago, I was on a panel at Bouchercon with several other authors of culinary cozy mysteries. The moderator asked the question, "What is your biggest cooking fail." At the time, I didn't have anything too major. One of my fellow panelists needed to call the fire department. So, while I had a few challenges, I had nothing that required a fire extinguisher or calling the fire department. However, I would be lying if I said that everything I cooked came out perfect the first time. Or, sometimes, not even the tenth time. So, today, I thought it would be fun (or maybe humbling) to share our biggest fails or recipes we have yet to master.
In my case, the recipe that I just can't seem to get right is caramel cake. I have a recipe book from a restaurant that I love and that makes amazing caramel cake. I have followed the recipe to the letter, but for some reason, my cake (when I follow this recipe) is dry and my caramel icing just won't come out the way it should. The flavor is great. However, it's usually runny. I have sought the advise of cooking elders and tried stirring the caramel longer. Stirring the cake batter less. Adding powdered sugar to the icing, and a host of other insider tricks. Still, it just isn't right. I haven't tried caramel cake for quite some time, but as I work on the third book in my Baker Street Mysteries and noodle over ideas for the 4th book in my RJ Franklin series, I know that one of those books is screaming for a caramel cake.
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MADDIE DAY: I've had more than one fail, but none were ever fire-department worthy, thank goodness. I'll share one here that was a fun process, but the end result was disappointing, to say the least.
Both my sons (now in their mid-thirties) grew up baking with me. Both still enjoy it. One Christmas eight years ago I asked Allan, my older son, if he wanted to try making a Buche de Noel with me. He was game. I'd seen the chocolate roll cake from bakeries, decorated to look like a beech tree log, and I'm an experienced baker. How hard could it be?
Yeah. Hard!
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VICKI DELANY: I've had my share of kitchen fails. I mentioned one of my biggest last time when we talked about our mother's favourite recipes. I made a chocolate mousse cake for Christmas specially for her. It turned out more like chocolate pudding with lumps of cake. Looked dreadful. Tasted fine. And, considering it was only for family, that was okay. Mom enjoyed it which is the important part, right?
The one thing I'm afraid to make is macarons. The Tea by the Sea Series has recipes in it, for things that are served in the afternoon tea room where the books are set. My character, Lily, is often making macarons. I love them too and think they're as tasty as they are beautiful. I have never dared even try. So if someone out there has a recipe they consider 'no fail' please do let me know.
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PEG COCHRAN/MARGARET LOUDON: It looks as if Edith and I have had a similar experience with Buche de Noel! The first time I made it, it was a success. I made two actually--my daughter's French teacher would give them extra credit for bringing in a Buche de Noel. I made one for her and one for her friend. It was such fun working on them together and my daughter's won! (I went the whole nine yards for hers and even made meringue mushrooms.) The Buche became a Christmas tradition...until it didn't! One year the cake all fell apart when I tried to roll it. I made another one. Same result. Christmas dessert ended up being a trifle made with the broken pieces of cake and whipped cream, which we enjoyed just as much! My only brush with fire came when I was making a duck with lemon bourbon sauce for my mother's birthday. I ended up singeing my bangs when I lit the bourbon!
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LESLIE KARST: One should never try to prepare sauce bèarnaise after more than two cocktails. This is a lesson it took me several fails to learn, when for several birthday celebrations in a row, I attempted to whip up the luscious sauce (essentially a warm, buttery mayonnaise with tarragon, shallots, and white wine vinegar) whilst a bit tipsy.
the steaks to go with the bèarnaise sauce
The problem is, since you’re heating a concoction of raw eggs and butter, unless you’re very careful, it has a tendency to turn into scrambled eggs, rather than the silky sauce it’s meant to be. But because bèarnaise sauce is best prepared right before service, and because it was my birthday, after all—so I was enjoying celebratory cocktails before dinnertime—I would find myself slightly impaired by the time came to make the sauce to accompany our steak-frites.
Lesson learned: switch to steak au poivre, which sauce doesn’t break.
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LUCY BURDETTE: As I write, I'm about to serve my fail to guests! Here's the menu: BBQ brisket with slider rolls, macaroni and cheese, roasted asparagus, and a big salad. This brisket I bought was just large enough to serve 7 people. However, as I trimmed the fat yesterday to get ready for the rub, I found a large (huge!) band of fat in the middle of the roast. By the time I'd cut most of that out, the serving size was whittled quite a bit. I'll have to encourage the guest to move to a plant-based diet and look forward to dessert! Here's the recipe.
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LESLIE BUDEWITZ: Oh, where to start? The time I reversed the amounts of cayenne and chili powder in the lentil stew and had to throw it out? The green beans I was cooking when a neighbor came to the door? Out went beans and pot. (Happily, no fire extinguishers or calls to the fire department needed.) Or the time I tried to whip cream and it just would not set up. While Mr. Right went out to buy some, I poured the cream back into the carton thinking we'd use it for coffee in the morning. Ha! Too bad I didn't know about putting butter in coffee back then! (I'm still haven't mastered whipping cream, though I can whip egg whites and potatoes with ease.)
But all you have to do to get a laugh out of both my brother and me is mention "Mom" and "fruitcake." Our family loved it -- the moist, fruity kind, not the dry substitutes for bricks -- so one Christmas when we were kids, my mom tried a recipe she found in a magazine, using lots of candied fruit, butter, and rum in a Bundt-like pan. In the oven in went, smelling so good! Out it came, looking like pudding. She'd forgotten to add the flour. She had plenty of ingredients left so she tried again a few days later. And you know what? We liked the pudding better!
TINA KASHIAN: I’ve also had more than one kitchen fail. I’m more of a cook than a baker. My mother-in-law is a baker. When I tried to make her chocolate chip cookies, I forgot the salt. A simple ingredient but without it the cookies tasted awful. I also had a fail when I attempted to cook my mother’s Armenian rice pilaf. You would think rice is simple, but not this recipe. I burned it during my first two attempts before I finally got it right. I’m sure there will be more kitchen failures in my future!
MAYA CORRIGAN: Like Tina, I had one of those failures with a mother-in-law dish. I had been married only a few years when I tried to make Bananas Foster. I'd watched my mother-in-law, who loved to entertain, prepare it. It looked like an easy and elegant dinner party dessert. You cook bananas in a butter, brown sugar, and rum sauce, which you flambé. When I brought a lit match near the sauce, it flared up. I stepped back too late. The flames didn't burn my skin, but they singed my eyelashes. I've always maintained that before that fateful flambé, my eyelashes were twice as long. They never returned to their former glory (sigh), and it was decades before I was willing to flambé anything again.
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LIBBY KLEIN: I'm an adventurous cook, so I've had a lot of failures. Some casseroles were so bad we had to throw them away and order pizza. I've learned to pivot (PIVOT!) with some of my failures. I once made cookies with too little flour. They spread out and covered the entire baking sheet like one huge Florentine. I broke them up and turned them into topping for apple crisp. I've made custards, curds, and mousses that just would. not. thicken. That's why I keep a box of vanilla instant pudding on hand for emergencies. Throw that in your soupy pastry cream and five minutes later - voila! Cupcakes that rise then fall in the middle - I'm shooting those suckers full of cream filling until they puff back up. I don't even want to talk about how many macaron shells I've thrown out in the yard because they were wrong. One year I had scalloped potatoes that wouldn't cook. It was Christmas Day and they'd been in the oven for two hours then the microwave for forty minutes. They were still hard. I still don't know what went wrong, but that's the year my grandmother taught me the tip to bake them halfway first.
My most frustrating failures are the ones where things don't look the way they do in the photo. I always imagine I'm going to make this perfect showstopper, but then I end up with something that looks like a five-year-old has been loose in the kitchen. There's nothing to do in those cases but own it. These were supposed to be blueberry muffins.
MOLLY MacRAE: Oh my. I've been failing for more than sixty years. Jumping into my way-back machine, the first fail I remember happened when I was six or seven. I'd been given my own cookbook and decided to make sugar cookies. My first problem was in the ingredient list. The recipe called for Gold Medal flour and we only had Pillsbury flour. What to do? Ask my older sisters home from college. They set me straight, explaining that Gold Medal was a brand name and that flour is flour. So when next I read "confectioner's sugar" I knew it wasn't a problem that we only had Dominoes sugar. Sugar is sugar. Not. That's the day I also learned that confectioner's sugar is another name for powdered sugar, which is what we called it. Oh well. I've made plenty of mistakes since then, but not that particular mistake. Even better, I never gave up.
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CLEO COYLE: Great topic, Valerie. Marc and I have suffered many a Cooking Fail in our kitchen, and they can break your heart worse than puppy love gone wrong. Like my “no bake” chocolate peanut butter bars. I threw the entire pan out! They never firmed up for cutting and the flavor was awful.
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Then there was my “zero fat" muffin experiment. No butter, no oil, even the milk was skim. Yeah, sure, pretty to look at (thanks to the festive cupcake liners) but ultimately inedible! These things were low fat to the point of disgusting.
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Even worse was when I spied a plastic container of leftover salsa one morning and thought, "Why not give this a go: Salsa Primavera!" Eesh. Bad idea. Really bad. Chef Gordon Ramsay would have spat my experiment into his napkin—and then spat at me. My lesson: never use leftover chopped tomatoes for anything but sauce!
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Finally, and this takes a genius. Distracted while cooking (I was listening to a radio program), I miscounted the number of eggs in my key lime pie. The homemade graham cracker crust was delicious and so was the pie, after I froze it. But serving it thawed was a total disaster. My lesson: pay attention while cooking! Aw, well, nobody’s perfect. And the truth is, if we aren’t failing, we aren’t trying. So here’s to all of us slipping on those banana peels and getting up to try, try again.
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Vicki Delaney. Look up video. BETH’S FOOLPROOF MACARON RECIPE Follow exactly. Perfect macarons. Good luck. Kathy D.
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DeleteMy biggest fail was in high school. I tried to make stuffed peppers. The recipe didn’t say to use cooked rice. My brother called it BB shot casserole.
ReplyDeleteLOL - I hope you are able to laugh at that fail, now. How awesome!
DeleteLOL! That is something you always have to think about in a recipe that calls for rice -- some recipe writers aren't specific.
DeleteThat’s hilarious! We had buckshot spaghetti sauce once, but that wasn’t my fault.
DeleteWhen I cook a turkey, I take it out of the packaging and let it sit in the refrigerator for at about 24 hours. A few years back on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I was late getting the turkey unwrapped, it was about 5 or 6 in the evening. I cut the packaging and the smell about killed me, it had went bad. I rushed to the grocery store to find something, anything, to serve the 7 people coming the next day. Luck was on my side, they had 1, just 1, thawed turkey. sue.stoner72@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteLuck was indeed on your side. My sophomore year in college, my mom was in the hospital and my dad made Thanksgiving dinner. He decided to expedite the cooking process by boiling the turkey before he baked it. You can imagine how that turned out.
DeleteLet me share two of my kitchen disasters. However, I only take the blame for one of them.
ReplyDeleteThe first one was when I wanted to make something very special for Christmas many years ago. I saw this fabulous looking cake on the cover of one of the most popular magazines of the time and decided this was it. Although the ingredients were many and expensive for me at the time, I wanted this cake to say "Look at me - I can bake!". Well, the cake was a major disaster. It tasted like cardboard and despite the expense and time, it ended up in the garbage. The next issue of the magazine buried way in the back pages was a disclaimer that they had misprinted the recipe and the ingredients were wrong. Duh! So that made this mess NOT my fault. :) Why won't you proof and re-proof a cake recipe that is featured as your cover shot? I was unhappy with the cake that I never tried to make it with the correct recipe.
The disaster I must take credit for would be my first baby food cake. Can't remember the official name and that's what we always called it. You could change the cake up by using a different jar of baby food pureed fruit. Mom had made it and it was both easy and delicious. With company coming on short notice, I picked this cake to make. You make it in a bundt pan. When the company walked in and trying to rush things, I dumped it before the allotted time and the cake literally fell apart with big clumps falling off the serving platter. Thinking fast, I grabbed a sheet cake pan and put all the pieces in it. When I served it, I made sure to have plenty of whipped topping to cover up the "mess" on the plate. We laughed and said I was the only person that could cook a round cake and serve it out of an oblong one. I will have to admit though that it didn't affect the taste and it was all gobbled up. Lesson learned - follow ALL directions because they are there for a reason.
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Those are both great. I have no idea what happened with the magazine, but I firmly believe there are printing gremlins who a typos to all printed material. No other explanation how those errors can bypass the host of folks who read and reread things before hand. Glad you were resourceful and saved your Baby Food Cake. :-)
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I learned to never cook when angry. I have made several fails that were over seasoned or burned.
ReplyDeleteFor the caramel cake, I can’t get it right either! My mom makes a gorgeous and delicious old southern family recipe caramel cake. I can’t ever get the icing right!
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DeleteThank you! I'm so glad it isn't just me. Maybe your mom will share her secret one day. :-)
DeleteMy disaster was trying to make chili. Of course I was multitasking so instead of using chili powder I grabbed the red cayenne pepper by mistake. Needless to say it was so hot no one could eat it so to the trash it went.
ReplyDeleteTerrie, ouch! Multitasking is never a good thing when cooking.
DeleteMy biggest fail happened many years ago after I was first married. My mother-in-law's favorite holiday was Thanksgiving. Not being a baker (or even much of a cook; that was my father-in-law), she always bought frozen pies. Oh no, I said in horror. I will make the pies. I decided on pumpkin pie and a nesselrode pie recipe from Gourmet. Famous last words. No matter what I did, I couldn't get the crust to roll out. After 3 tries and sobbing in frustration, I went to my mother who made the pie crust for me. Then I tried to make the nesselrode pie. One of the ingredients was gelatin which I had never used. Disaster number 2. I ended up with ugly gray lumps. That recipe went in the trash along with the pie filling. The pumpkin pie turned out fine thanks to my mother rescuing the pie crust and the nesselrode pie recipe was never mentioned. The upshot though is that I was so traumatized by pie crust that I discovered the joys of frozen pie crust. robschatz101@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteOh, wow. So glad your mother saved the day with the crust. I've never heard of nesselrode pie. I might have to try it. But, I will absolutely be using frozen pie crust. I've made crusts before, but it's a lot of work. Now, the only pie crust I make from scratch is graham cracker. Thanks for sharing. Good luck!
DeleteThinking about pie crusts reminds me of our childhood neighbor who said when she tried to roll one out, it always came out looking like Idaho! For a pie crust, you want Wyoming or Colorado. :)
DeleteBaking chocolate chip cookies one day, my oven decided to set itself to self-clean rather than 350. I had to call the fire department to make sure only the oven was burning. They threw my now cookie pucks into a flower bed outside. When I moved three years later, they were still there.
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DeleteSara, I work at an appliance manufacturer so I know self cleaning gets to 900 degrees and the door locks and doesn't open. WOW! That is a funny story. The new owners may never figure out why there are hocky pucks in the flower bed. :-) Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteOh, gosh, Sara, your hockey puck cookie disaster is hilarious. And, Valerie, 900 degrees! Wow, no wonder those cookies ended up carbonized (and still in a flower bed three years later).
DeleteI cannot get meringue to be fluffy. It almost always ends up flat no matter how long I mix it. I have managed to do it right once and was so proud that I didn’t want anyone to cut into the lemon meringue pie. 😂
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I love lemon meringue pies. There's a recipe in Murder is a Piece of Cake. I can totally understand not wanting to cut a perfect pie. Thanks for sharing and Good Luck!
DeleteI had to teach myself to cook my first year of marriage. I made many a burnt offering. The first time I made meatloaf I read the temperature for baking meatloaf wrong and burnt it to a crisp. I since have learned and now make a good meatloaf. Anita Allgood. Email Allgoodanita@yahoo.com. Thank you for the giveaway. The books are on my to be read list for this summer.
ReplyDeleteAnita, that is a great story. Glad you've mastered meatloaf. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteI have had SOOOO many cooking/baking fails. But the first fail that comes to mind didn't actually have anything to do with my culinary skills. It was our first Christmas in our first, new home. We had family visiting: my sister and her husband, my mother, and my mother-in-law. I was preparing our first dinner together and went into the pantry for I can't even remember what ingredient, and discovered...bugs. In just about everything! I think I could have handled it if it had just been my sister and mom, but in front of my new mother-in-law! No. I was mortified and crushed. We had to throw out just about everything (as we didn't have a lot of money, that in itself was crushing) and it put a serious damper on dinner, as we ended up going out to eat.
ReplyDeleteThat is absolutely not your fault. I'm sure it was a bummer, but thankfully it was family. Thanks for sharing.
DeleteOh, I can relate. Your story reminds me of the time I was visiting a friend in Florida and baked a big batch of cornbread for him. I left the plate on the counter with a paper towel covering it. Well, he didn't warn me about the palmetto bugs. The next morning, I lifted the paper towel to find the beautiful cornbread covered in those creepy crawlies. Needless to say, into the garbage it went!
DeleteThere have been a few. One time I got a new cookbook so I picked out a rutabaga and Gruyère casserole recipe. Don’t ask me why! Well, it came out if the oven and smelled so bad we had to open all of the windows. Needless to say we went to the diner that night 😂
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Wow! I don't know that I've ever heard of that combination, but I can imagine the smell. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteWe have a double oven. I put the chicken in and turned on the wrong oven. An hour later we ordered pizza. sgiden at verizon(.)net
ReplyDeleteLOL - I have done the same thing. Darn those double ovens! :-) Thanks for sharing and good luck in the drawing.
DeleteMy biggest fail was a two-fer fail! A lovely chocolate cake in one of my cool Bundt pans for dessert at a friend's house! It toothpick tested correctly after the required cooking time and after that cooling period on the wire rack, I inverted it to cool out of the pan and it proceeded to flow out like the most amazing lava cake! Okay, let's try again since I MUST have done something wrong, but second time was not the charm. Same thing happened! The problem ~ I needed a new oven! Bakery item purchased to bring to a friend's home! PS I now own an oven thermometer! sharonrizzo!hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteSharon, Bummer of a way to learn the problem was the oven. An oven thermometer is a great idea. Thanks for for sharing and good luck in the drawing.
DeleteI have had multiple fails. I experiment with dinners and I will ask my husband what did you think. He just answers not your best and I know not to make it again LOL. As for fire department vists, I have never had them visit but one year the fire department called for donations and was reminding everyone to check their smoke detectors. I said yes I do check it. When it goes off I know dinner is done. He thought that was the best answer he had heard. Enjoy all your books and thank you for all you do for us readers! hsdh1525@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteHeather, I love that response. I might need to steal it. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteMy cooking fail was a beef Wellington. It looked great but tasted terrible. In my almost 30 years of marriage this was the one dish my husband threw out. We always talk about it. It’s become Connie’s beef Wellington legend. Lol. Cakikta@aol.com
ReplyDeleteOnly throwing out one dish is 30 years is a testament to your skill. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteI made a pan of Hello Dolly Bars and as I took them out of the oven the pan fell on the floor. What a mess and I did not even get to try them. My first attempt at Beef Stroganoff well instead of reading the ingredients I just started making it. I did not have sour cream so I decided to substitute tomato sauce bad was not the word. I ended up throwing it out. deborahortega229@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteDeborah, I actually made smashed potatoes for the MLK blog and dropped the entire dish. Fortunately, I got a picture before the catastrophe and my poodles enjoyed the treat. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
ReplyDeleteLOL, Valerie. Yay for the poodle snack save!
DeleteI loved these stories - especially since I am not really a good cook. I remember trying to make donuts for my brother when I was a teen. I'm still not sure what went wrong but he used one as a doorstop for our heavy front door.... aprilbluetx at yahoo dot com Thank you for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteSounds like the cake I made when I was 12 that came out as hard as your doughnuts. To add insult to injury, I'd used food coloring to turn it a nauseating shade of green! Even the birds wouldn't touch it.
DeleteMy biggest fail was making dippy Eggs for the very first time. Not only were they undercooked but way to runny to say the least to this day I have yet to master making them.
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I've never heard of dippy eggs? Do you mean soft boiled? Reminds me of the time I boiled a dozen eggs to color for Easter and in a late night daze, proceeded to peel them all!
DeleteCrystal, I had never heard of dippy eggs either, but I guess its soft boiled eggs. It seems like my biggest fails involve eggs. I'm actually writing about one of those fails in Baker Street Mystery book #3. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteYes soft boiled. I guess that's how us country folk talk here in Pennsylvania.
DeleteI haven't had a major one yet. Once trying a new recipe I read it wrong and switched up the amount of spice in the cake and the frosting, leaving a kind of bitterness to the frosting, but still edible. Could have been worse- I remember in high school my friend was banned from her kitchen after ruining three plates trying to heat up a piece of pizza. And the pizza was still cold! She's become a pretty good cook and baker now though. Just took some practice.
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Alicia, I'm amazed how your friend managed to ruin 3 plates but still manage to have cold pizza. She's got skills. :-) Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteThese are all great and make me feel better about my goofs. Mr. B is an intuitive cook and can take ingredients out of the fridge and pantry and make something wonderful. I try this and end up having cereal or making popcorn for dinner. It always seems like it will work out but I tend to follow a recipe and tweak it a bit to make it my own. I have found that following some recipes can lead me astray, especially the apple pie recipe I use. I switch steps 1 and 2 otherwise I'm placing a slab of caramel on top of the latticed crust if I do the butter melt, add sugars and flour then do the apple slices in the bottom crust and add lattice to top. The butter/sugar mix is no longer liquid to pour over the pie. It's a slab of caramel and doesn't quite work. I've also done the baking while tipsy making my first pumpkin pie from scratch with a real pumpkin...no fire extinguishers needed but canned pumpkin from now on.
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Baking while tipsy is bound to result in either a brilliant meal or a catastrophe. Good luck in the drawing.
DeleteScalloped potatoes with ham, I just can’t get this right no matter what recipe I try. Thanks for the chance to win this great book contest. Rose- roseb2007@verizon.net
ReplyDeleteScalloped potatoes have been my Waterloo as well. I've learned to almost double the cooking time the recipe calls for.
DeleteSome of these are funny.:-) I had so many fails early in our marriage that it became a joke that when the fire alarm went off it meant dinner was ready!
ReplyDeleteVera, it's a lot easier to laugh at fails when some time has passed. So, I'd agree with you. They are funny now.
DeleteThat’s so cute, it was a standing joke for my mom’s cooking - smoke alarm meant dinner was ready too.
DeleteFirst time I ever made biscuits- they were hard as a rock. Thanks for the chance to win!
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I think I might have had that same biscuit fail. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteMy biggest, and most expensive fail, was when I attempted to make enough seafood gumbo for 8 people. It was not fit to eat and I was so embarrassed. 3labsmom(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteYikes! Seafood is expensive. When my fridge broke and I had to toss a package of salmon and a bag of shrimp, I nearly cried. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteI am not much of a baker but would love to be able to make a pie crust. Tried once and didn’t work out well. Thanks for the chance to win your books. lhallson@shaw.ca
ReplyDeletePie crusts aren't easy. I tend to go the easy route and buy the frozen crusts. Not as tasty, but a lot less work. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteA home baked birthday cake which was stuck in the bundt pan. I had to scrape it out. I salvaged it as it had baked nicely so I cut up the cake into squares instead of slices and put it into a pretty dessert bowl with a pudding topping. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteThat's so creative. I would have tossed it. I'm impressed. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteMy biggest kitchen fail was spaghetti carbonara. The recipe I was using didn't mention tempering the eggs, so when I stirred them into the sauce I got spaghetti and scrambled eggs. UGH. I found out about tempering the eggs much later, but I have to confess I was so traumatized that I've never tried that recipe again. Thanks so much for the generous giveaway! aut1063(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteI hate when recipes assume you know things like, you have to temper the eggs. Sorry, you were traumatized, but thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteI have too many fails to count. The corned beef with way too much gristle, brownies that never cooked inside and overdone outside, steak that was raw in the middle (think steak tartare) and shoe leather on the outside. I have a theme going lol. These are just to name a few. Thank you for this chance. areewekidding(at)yahoo(dot)com
ReplyDeleteRobyn, As I read everyone's fails, I'm reminded of tons of fails that I have blocked out. So many meals uncooked inside and burned outside. How is that possible? Oh well, thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteThere's the turkey for the first Thanksgiving with my in-laws. It was partially frozen when it went in the oven. They were starving by the time dinner was ready. My lemon pie that was lemon sopa (soup). The cloverleaf rolls that broken apart were perfect ammunition to use on the barky dogs that lived behind us. The time I confused espresso powder and ground espresso and had cookies with extra crunch.
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Pat, those are awesome! Thanks for sharing and I love the rolls as ammunition. Good luck.
DeleteMy husband is English so I make some English dinners for him, there is one that I failed very bad on and that would be a Christmas pudding, the directions looked very easy, they are suppse to be black but both mine were a gray and hard as a brick! Hubby didn't say much LOL
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DeletePenney, Every time I read The Adventures of the Christmas Pudding or Watch Theft of the Royal Ruby with Hercule Poirot, I consider trying a Christmas pudding. After reading your fail, I think I'll skip it. Your husband was kind (and wise) not to say much. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteMy dinner group was meeting at a friend's house. I prepped my pad thai sauce, soaked the noodles, assembled the garnishes, so all I had to do at the last minute was toss everything together and heat it up. Friend provided her wok, and I set to work, only to watch in disbelief as the noodles and sauce turned the color of black ink. Fortunately, we had a generous menu and plenty of food, because the pad thai looked repulsive. (The couple of us who dared taste it found it perfectly normal.) Though we did a lot of post-event investigating the only explanation we could find was a reaction between the sauce and the wok metal.
ReplyDeleteWow! I'm not sure I would have been brave enough to try it. Glad it tasted okay. Thanks for sharing.
DeleteI’m a terrible cook, but the worst of the worst was making lefse, a Norwegian flatbread. It’s basically cold mashed potatoes, flour, cream, butter, sugar, salt. No matter how hard I tried, or how much flour I used, I could not get the dough to do anything but stick to the rolling pin. I tried just patting them out and frying them on the griddle, but because I’d used so much flour, they tasted like… well, flour. Fortunately, my daughter has mastered the art!
ReplyDeleteJoni, I've never heard of lefse, but now I'm looking them up. Glad your daughter has the touch. Thanks for sharing.
DeleteIf you haven't had kitchen failures, you haven't been in the kitchen!
ReplyDeleteLeslie-One of my earliest was make a cake from my "Boys and Girls Cookbook" from Betty Crocker. I wanted only one cake layer, so I made half the recipe...except I used the full amount of liquid with the 1/2 flour.
Peg-I want your recipe for duck with lemon borbon sauce!
Libby-My puddings (puddings, pie fillings, Welsh rarebit, etc) don't "pudd". The most famous example was a choclate pudding pie I made. I seemed to have set, but when I cut a slice and attempted to move it to a plate, I had an empty pie crust with a trail of pudding glopp between the pie plate and plate. We hurt ourselves laughing over it.
Cleo-regarding your banana peels--maybe you can get together with Maya's banans Foster.
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Libby - LOL on all, and poor Maya's singed eyelashes...though bananas Foster is so good, it may have been worth it!
DeleteWhat terrific stories -- we're all laughing together! Keep 'em coming!
ReplyDeleteLike so many others, my biggest fail was a Thanksgiving dinner. I thawed out the turkey ahead of time and cleaned it that morning, but there was only a neck inside the bird. I dug around looking for the packet with the innards, but nothing, so I stuffed it and put it in the oven. having always used the gizzard, heart and liver in the gravy, I was concerned about how it would taste, but oh well, onward. After I finished extracting the stuffing, my brother-in-law started carving the turkey. He got to the point of splitting the breast bone and surprise, there was more stuffing back there, along with the missing packet! It was there all along. Nobody ate stuffing from that bird! Another time I was making chocolate chip cookies and forgot to put the baking soda in. Can you say hockey puck? Into the trash they went. Happy cooking, ya'll! makennedyinaz(at)hotmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteMarcia, I have made those same hockey puck cookies. I never dreamed baking soda (or is it baking powder) could make such a big difference. Thanks for sharing. Good luck!
DeleteThis is something so simple but one of my cooking fails is hamburgers. I remember making them and my husband and I put our hamburgers together with the condiments. We sit down and take a bite and yep, its not done. We had to take them apart to finish cooking and then remake the burgers. susanbichell@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteSusan, I have had to recook a burger or two. So easy to do. Glad you had a relatively easy fix. Thanks for sharing and good luck.
DeleteThese comments are fun to read, LOL. I've had many baking disasters. I've had cakes not rise and flat as a board cookies. I remember the first time I made homemade biscuits. They turned out hard as a rock!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the chance!!
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I agree the comments are great! You are not the only person to make rock hard biscuits. The first time I made bread, it came out great. The second time, not so much. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteI have to brag - I was an excellent cook.
ReplyDeleteMade meals for rehearsal dinners, kept
my food-loving husband happy for 45 years.
HOWEVER, I could not fry chicken for
love or money. It came out greasy or
over-done or else not cooked enough.
In 80 years, I still can't fry chicken. Glad
there are restaurants. thanks for
offering a great prize.
txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com
One thing I never ever do is deep fry anything. I am simply too afraid of the hot fat.
DeleteMary, I have had a lot of fried chicken fails. I can't seem to keep the breading from coming off. However, I refuse to give up. I'm determined to master that one. Thanks for sharing. Good luck!
DeleteI had a crockpot fail. Put dinner in it and turned it on but forgot to plug it in. I was not happy when I got home from work.
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I love this topic. So many great stories.
ReplyDeleteI've also had plenty of failures. One that stands out in my mind was a Carmel apple cake. I had just gotten my Kitchen Aid mixer and thought I could make anything. When I took the cake out of the oven, it was hard like a rock. My plan to take it to work the next morning ended up on the trash.
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I work for the company that makes KA stand mixers. So, I've heard quite a few baking fails. The KA stand mixer hits 69 points on the bowl, so most people overmix. The nearest competitor only hits 19 points. I have to admit, I love my Kitchen Aid stand mixer. Mine is candy apple red! LOVE it. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteThere was the time I left out the baking powder/soda when making gingerbread and it looked like marzipan. Not good. Then there was the time I was trying to throw together a Mediterranean dish without a recipe and going by what I could remember from watching a cook on TV. I took one bite and threw it out and I never throw out food. And there's the infamous tunafish salad that I made when I was on the old Stillman diet back in 1970! I couldn't use mayo because it had oil and sugar, so I figured I'd just use yellow mustard since it was a condiment like mayo. NEVER DO THAT! LOL I was only 16. My sister still teases me after half a century!!!
ReplyDeletesssusieqAThotmailDOTcom
LOL - Sisters! Gotta love them. Mine has a memory like an elephant too. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteI have yet to get a cheesecake to work in a Springform pan. I collar the pan, but it breaks apart instead of releasing it
ReplyDeleteCandydaulton56(at)Gmail(dot) Com
Cheesecake can be tricky enough without a springform pan adding to the issues. I hope you find the key. I love cheesecake. Thanks for sharing and good luck.
DeleteWhen I was a teenager I made Wackey Cake and instead of baking chocolate I used Nestle Quick. I had to throw it out. It was awful.
ReplyDeletekaye.killgore(at)comcast(dot)net
ROFL - Nestle Quick! That's a good one. Thanks for the chuckle. Good luck!
Deletemy grandmother's mac and cheese - though nobody in the family has been able to replicate it.
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One of my fears is that family recipes will disappear. I hope you find the secret ingredient. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteI think we have all had our fails through the years. The more you experiment, the more likelihood of failure. I remember the first time I tried making homemade bread. I added too much flour and kneaded it too long. I was so disappointed. To this day, I am still intimidated by it so I tend to buy bread usually rather than make it myself. cherierj(at)yahoo(dot)com
ReplyDeleteCherie, I am intimidated by bread or more specifically, YEAST, too. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteI’m not the best cook in the world so I’m sure there have been many fails that I have just blocked out. Two that I remember specifically were both “no bake” recipes. The first was Chocolate Eclair Cake, which is layered graham crackers, vanilla pudding, and chocolate frosting. I was going to make it for Thanksgiving. It’s very easy but the one thing I forgot is that it’s supposed to be made the day before so it can chill and set up overnight. It was edible but very runny. The second was No Bake Chocolate cookies. I followed my mother’s recipe exactly but the cookies would not set up. The flavor was good, but we had to scape the cookies off the waxed paper with a spoon. cking78503(at)aol(dot)com
ReplyDeleteChristi, I've blocked out a lot of fails that are coming back to me as I read the fails of others. So, I'm sure you're right. I've not tried no bake cookies, but at least you were able to scrape them with a spoon. I'm sure they would work well in a bowl of ice cream. :-) Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteI can not make a good gravy from scratch.
ReplyDeleteI've had gravy challenges, too. Thankfully, I've found gravy in a jar that I like.
DeleteWhen I first got married my poor husband had to eat many many bad meals. By the time our boys my cooking has gotten better thank goodness 🤣😂
ReplyDeleteI'll bet your husband really appreciates your cooking now. He's lived through the evolution. That's great!:-)
DeleteDon't remember ever burning a meal or makkng a bad dish. I have been cooking since I was 8 years old. My mom taught me well 😊. Thanks for the giveaway. strgth4yu(at)hotmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteThat's impressive. Good luck in the giveaway!
DeleteI’ve had minor mishaps like having the marshmallows on my sweet potato casserole overrun the edges of the pan and drip into the bottom of the oven, or accidentally boiling all the water out of the pasta or veggies and they stick to the pan. I can’t think of any major fails, though. dolphingalsmurphy(at)yahoo (dot)com
ReplyDeleteBeen there. I was making a simple syrup for my hummingbird feeder last week and got distracted. I remembered when I smelled the burned sugar. Both mishaps are easy to do. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteMy biggest fail was the undercook turkey I tried to serve my parents on Thanksgiving when my son was a baby. They were very patient and forgiving. The rest could be reheated later.
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Linda, Glad your family was patient. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteNot a major fail, but I am still trying to recreate Christmas cookies that my family got every year from the same bakery. And every time they aren't quite right, which feels like a bit of a failure. c85516246
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Wow! That can be frustrating. Hopefully, you're getting closer with each attempt. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteFoil wrapped chicken. They came out half raw. I hadn’t preheated the oven long enough.
ReplyDeleteWskwared(at)yahoo(dot)com
Oh that's frustrating. Raw poultry is certainly a problem. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteAt 74 yo, I haven’t cooked for so long, I’ve forgotten the many falls😃
ReplyDeleteBut the funniest fail of my mom’s was one Christmas. She made several pies, and took one of the pumpkin to her best friend’s family (my Godmother). After our dinner, we dug into our pies. Mom selected a piece of pumpkin, took a bite and had a horrified look.
She called my Godmother, and asked if they had dessert yet… Mary’s response was hysterical laughing, and finally said, “yes… we know, you forgot the sugar!😆😆😆
Oh that is funny. So glad your godmother was able to laugh about it. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteMy bread baking has been a disaster in the making. It is getting better
ReplyDeleteNot my biggest fail but the one most often recalled in my family... the first time I ever made a gallon of iced tea for my family, I failed to use the correct number of tea bags. I don't remember how many, but the tea was barely colored water with sugar. My brother took one sip and poured his into the sink with the (now) oft-quoted line "back to the ground from which you came, water." The family was much more amused than I was.
ReplyDeleteKellene, that's funny. The perfect sweet tea isn't as easy as it looks. Thanks for sharing.
DeleteMy biggest fail was trying to make a 2 layer chocolate cake. I didn’t know I had to wait til both rounds we’re completely cooled. I put it together and stated icing and my cake split right down middle right after I had iced the whole cake!
ReplyDeleteJess
Maceoindo(at)Yahoo(Dot)Com
Oh wow! I hope you were able to have pre-sliced cake. Thank you for sharing. Good Luck!
DeleteAnything that come in a box with instructions. I've failed a time or 2. cheetahthecat1982ATgmailDOTcom
ReplyDeleteLOL - That's funny. Thanks for sharing and good luck.
DeleteCooking was never been one of my favorite things. Needless to say, I'm not a great cook. I think my worst fail, though, had to do with baking. I decided to attempt a chocolate cheesecake for Christmas one year. Not good. The chocolate all hardened up when it baked. It was like eating a candy bar with cheesecake surrounding it. My mom and husband kept saying it wasn't that bad, and they ate some. I think I ended up tossing the rest of it away. cd0228@aol.com
ReplyDeleteCathy, that's awesome that your family was willing to eat it even though it wasn't perfect. Honestly, I'm thinking a candy bar with cheesecake doesn't sound bad. :-) Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteA new friend was stopping by the house. He's a wonderful cook and this was the first time serving him food. I made my (usually) fabulous blueberry cake with cinnamon-sugar crunch topping. You probably know where this is headed. Salt instead of sugar. In the batter, in the topping. I was mortified! The cake was absolutely inedible. I don't think even the crows would eat it. On the flip side, my COVID challenge was to learn to make macarons. 26 failed batches, but the 27th was perfection! My go-to: Mimi's No-Fail Macaron recipe. Note: even failed macarons are still tasty!
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Beth, I am sure even your friend has made the sugar vs salt mistake at least once. I admire your perseverance to master macarons. Great job! Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteSome of these are so familiar. Cooking fails? Let me count the ways. Took forever to master gravy without lumps. The time we had company and the stove wouldn't work so I put the roast in the microwave and forgot to turn it on. The one thing I have never been able to master? Praline & penuche. We had a friend who loved making penuche. My daughter just loves them. Rebecca passed on a few years ago. We had worked with her in the kitchen making them. But when I tried it on my own? Once my fail was used as ice cream topping and was poured over a pound cake. Another time it just crumbled and we stirred it into pudding. Burnt once, no saving it. Not sure how it happened but just too awful to eat. Someone suggested I try Penuche fudge it's similar and easier she said. Well. That didn't go so well either. Last time I tried it? We ate it with a spoon. bess deepotter 84 at gmail dot com
ReplyDeleteOh those are great. Sounds like you are extremely creative. If nothing else, you've discovered lots of ways to serve penuche. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteThank you for sharing your wonderful stories! I have had several fails in the kitchen from a burned peanut butter cake made with the new microwave, remember when they first came out, I was six. There was the Italian dish that my husband jokingly calls exploding spaghetti, I had just moved and used a glass bowl to cook noodles insteaf of a pan, it split and cracked as it cooled. It was also the first meal I ever cooked for him 🤦♀️. My most recent struggle is with croissants. I am determined to get it right and have layer upon layer of flakey, buttery pastry. Fingers crossed and thank you for your generosity! tracy.condie@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteOh those are great. Good luck in the drawing and with the croissants!
DeleteWOW...so many "fails" :-) Most of the time we (cooks) are too critical of our own creations, but to the eaters it is fine:-)... My epic "fail" was when I attempted to make oatmeal bread and it came out as a brick. Keep on cooking/baking...practice makes perfect they say, and I am perfectly happy to be the Guinea pig to eat any of your creations!
ReplyDeleteLuis at ole dot travel
Luis, I agree that practice makes perfect. Thanks for sharing your brick oatmeal bread experience. Good luck in the giveaway!
DeleteOh how fun to read everyone's fails. Not all of us are meant to be in the kitchen. LOL I got Epilepsy. I still have it at age 64. But I wanted so bad to learn to cook. My mom was a great cook. But she didnt want me in the kitchen. I get it. I really do. But I wanted to learn to cook. Finally in high school mom let me make Kraft Mac and Cheese. I knew she wasnt far, but oh my goodness I was in the kitchen, I was so excited. Sigh. Well I got distracted and the water boiled away and the pan burnt. LOL I guess mom gave me the old pan on purpose. LOL Mom tried to let me help in the kitchen, but even with her in the kitchen, with how much medicine I was on, sigh, it just didnt work out. When I got married, I tried very simple things and "stayed" in the kitchen only doing my cooking. By the time our first came along, I was so much better in the kitchen. And when our second came along, I had improved so much and baking was now my favorite thing to do. LOL My mom was still a huge help, but she felt so confident in me being in the kitchen now. That meant so much to me. And my husband could not have been more encouraging and helpful. He would actually take the two kids and they would cook dinner for me. quilting dash lady at comcast dot net
ReplyDeleteLori, that is very encouraging to read about where you started in the kitchen and where you are now. Glad you had so much support and encouragement. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteI have been cooking since I was a child and I love making great food! I think my first kitchen fail was when I cooked my first turkey. I was sweating getting it fully thawed to roast it. After cooking the turkey, I realized that I had not taken turkey neck and the giblet bag from the frozen fowl's nether regions! As a newly wed, I took a cake decorating class. Our tiny kitchen had little storage space and I put a decorated cake on a plastic cutting board in the oven. I forgot all about that when I started preheating the oven to cook dinner. It must have been the smell of melting plastic that drew me to discover the ruined cake and the melted cutting board in the apartment oven! It was more of a serving disaster when I met my future husband's parents for the first time.We had cooked a family favorite meal for them - spaghetti and meatballs. We plated the meals in the kitchen and were carrying them a couple of steps away to the dining table of the tiny apartment. Their elderly dachshund, Gus, dashed up right under my feet. I stopped instantly and the momentum of my sudden stop sent the full plate of spaghetti, loads of sauce, and several meatballs slipping off the plate and right on top of a very surprised dog. My face was as red as the spaghetti sauce, and the cleanup wasn't very fun, either!
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allibrary (at) aol (dot) com
Nancy, Oh my. Those are epic. I can only imagine a dachshund covered in spaghetti sauce. That story reminds me of one New Year's Day. I invited my family over and cooked for them. My dad was fixing my washer and his plate was on the dining room table. When my back was turned, Cash (toy poodle) climbed up in the chair and started eating my dad's dinner. I was mortified. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
DeleteHollandaise sauce I love eggs benedict and other foods using hollandaise sauce but I fail with every try people tell me I 'm a great cook and baker but no one has ever witnessed my attempts at making hollandaise sauce. I'm now in my sixties and still I fail at making hollandaise sauce. Kat
ReplyDeleteOh, I don't even try hollandaise sauce. You are a brave woman. :-) Thanks for sharing.
DeleteThe fail was forgetting the baking powder or soda to a cookie recipe. Therefore the cookies were extremely flat.
ReplyDeleteOne of my first fails was when I made a cherry pie to enter in 4-H. It looked beautiful but when the judges cut into it, it ran all over the place. She asked me if I forgot to put the flour or cornstarch in the filling. I stood there and realized I had forgotten. She did tell me it tasted fine. Several years ago I was making hard cooked eggs and forgot about them until I heard an explosion. The water was gone and there was egg all over the ceiling. Learned the hard way eggs can explode.
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I make Fideo (like Mexican/Spanish Rice with vermicelli). It always comes out great. Way better than Mexican/Spanish Rice. But the last time I made it, it was horrible. I do not know what I did wrong to this day. I had to throw it away. So, I have made Hubby Dearest make it since then. Well, he made me help him make it the other day and it turned out fabulous. madspangler@comcast.net
ReplyDeleteMy biggest fail is in making cakes. They are always lopsided. No matter what pan I use or if I use a box or make them from scratch. They usually taste fine, but they are never pretty. 1girlkitty@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI made a sponge cake for 4-H competition that defied description and NOONE has ever figured out what went wrong.
ReplyDeleteI called the home advisor and asked if I should bring it. Her answer was it can’t be that bad, bring it!
I did.
The judges looked at the cake, they looked at me, they looked at the home advisor and said they had NEVER seen anything like it!
It raised about 4 inches, and when cut there was a perfect two inch custard lined tunnel all around the inside of the cake!
No one has ever figured out what happened and it has never happened again!!
The U of I judges wanted to give me an award for the biggest failure in cooking history!
For years I have tried making Paska, Slovak bread made at Easter. I’ve used my mom’s recipe, rewrote it following my brother making the bread just fine and still I end up with a flat rock! Yeast bread is not my friend. kkertes@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite foods is salmon croquettes, but I have tried too many times (years) to make them not falling apart. I loved my mom's, and now my husband's recipe, but I am done trying. Sometimes accepting defeat is a high road.
ReplyDeleteWhen I got out on my own, I knew very little about cooking. My first husband knew a lot about cooking and taught me all he could. Years later when it just myself and my young son, I invited his Day Care teacher and husband to dinner one time. I had spaghetti and cheese cake for dessert. I didn't have enough spaghetti sauce and had to run next door and borrow some. I have always had trouble getting cheese cake to come out right and this night was no exception. I was so embarrassed. I eventually over the years got the cheesecake right. conney.parkhurst@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI have never been able to master fried chicken, which is one of my favorite things to eat.
ReplyDeleteMine was brownies that never set. lindaherold999(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteI put a pot roast in the slow cooker with potatoes and carrots and added onion and other seasoning. The recipe called for alcohol, but we don't have any, so I added beef broth. It smelled good all day as it cooked. When it was time to serve, the meat was stringy and mushy, the only thing that was edible was the carrots and potatoes! pucasmom@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteVisiting my aunt (who was not a cook) I tried making box Mac n cheese and misread the directions and added way too much salt (I was a kid). Totally inedible. Well, some salesman or something knocked on the door, my aunt sent him on his way, then said "we should have invited him in for dinner". It would have been hilarious. Mean but hilarious. Jhteague at me dot com
ReplyDeleteI had to leave early for a meeting, so my mother had me make a fish dish in the microwave oven. She said to put it in for a certain length of time. What she didn’t tell me was to take it out, turn the pan and put it in again for the same amount of time. Half cooked fish is yucky
ReplyDeleteLove reading all these comments as well as authors' kitchen mishaps!! There are so many sweet (and maybe not so sweet) memories, and lessons learned!! I didn't have the opportunity to learn cooking or baking from my mother as she passed away when I was in middle school. My father then ordered some catering service as he had to work. I am lucky to married a man who loves to cook and bake. He follows almost 99% of the recipes,- especially for baking, and he hardly eyeballs the ingredients. If he shorts of certain ingredients, he would goggle for substitution. Hence, he seldom has kitchen mishap, just a few times he forgot to add baking powder /soda, the baking still came out good, except not so fluffy.. A couple times he didn't read the recipe properly, and he messed up with some steps, but food seemed to turn out ok.
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I absolutely loved reading all about the cooking mishaps. I've had many. I'm seriously adhd and tend to forget about things. When I was pregnant with my son a million years ago , I was having a taco night and burned the shells. I was so pregnant and cooking for my inlaws . I stared crying and we ate them anyways and called them chocolate tacos. We still joke about it. Angelagillooley@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI absolutely loved reading all the cooking fail stories. I have many. I am seriously a squirrel and get so distracted. One time when I was pregnant with my son( a million years ago) I was cooking for my husband and inlaws. I decided on a taco theme . Well ,with my son I was sick basically all day everyday. I had to make an emergency bathroom break and burned half the meal. It was edible but the taco shells were brown. I cried they felt bad and ate them anyways . We called them chocolate tacos. It stuck my husband still teases me about it . Angelagillooley@gmail.com
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