Culinary disasters.

[katex]

I know ... not known for my cooking . Tonight decides to make a salad to go with my rump steak. Puts it on the hob out of the way. Mushrooms in pan .. turns on the wrong knob .. butter for mushrooms not melting .. salad bubbling ... this is not the first time I have done this! Gonna' still eat it .. the goodness should still be there, shouldn't it ?

Oh, blooming hek ... poured off the thinned Balsamic Vinegar ... tomato wedges plop into washing up bowl.

Come on .. even you with culinary skills must have made a mess at times. !

Oh heck, better go before steak burns...

[shillelagh]

im staying quiet .....

[shillelagh]

just remember one thing kate ..... theres no such thing as burnt - its well done!!!!

[katex]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

just remember one thing kate ..... theres no such thing as burnt - its well done!!!!

Eeew yeh Shill .. good thinking.

How would you prefer your salad sir ? Rare/medium rare/medium/well done ?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes Kate.....if we are honest we have all had those moments.
Mine was a Christmas dinner.......all the family over, everything going like clockwork, and you are smugly congratulating yourself on your organisational skills.......you have been really good, washing up as you go along so that there is no dish/pan mountain to wash up at the end of the meal......You serve your starter, everyone tucks in and enjoys it.......you whisk away the plates/dishes and wash them up in lovely sudsy water....then you decide to make the turkey gravy........you take the roasting tin to the sink and trying to hold the hot roasting tin and the turkey, you try to pour the juices into another pan.......the turkey makes a bid for freedom and plops into the hot sudsy water........EEEK, that isn't on the cooking plan!
You hastily fish it out of the water, pick off the soggy lettuce(from the washed up starter plates) rinse the bird in fresh cold water....put it back into the roasting tin and put it back in the oven to dry out/warm up....you tell your guests that the turkey is just circling the building waiting for permission from Air traffic control to make a landing....and hope that veggies will last until you feel the bird is Ok to serve.

That is one of my culinary disasters

Oh, and at that time I didn't have an open plan kitchen so none of my dinner guests were any the wiser.

[katex]

LOL .. that would have been one very clean turkey Margaret.

I learnt a lesson with spaghetti .. have to drain it in a colander ... not in pan, letting water out through lid and pan .. spaghetti sorta' has the lemmings rush. Still .. quick wash (once you have managed to spoon it out of the washing-up bowl), boil electric kettle, pour water in pan, back on stove ... jobs a good 'un

[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by katex

LOL .. that would have been one very clean turkey Margaret.

I learnt a lesson with spaghetti .. have to drain it in a colander ... not in pan, letting water out through lid and pan .. spaghetti sorta' has the lemmings rush. Still .. quick wash (once you have managed to spoon it out of the washing-up bowl), boil electric kettle, pour water in pan, back on stove ... jobs a good 'un

or even better to save on the washing up kate - buy a pan that has holes in the lid for draining stuff... awt pans have the holes in em!!!

[MargaretR]

Some things I cook in bulk and freeze in jam jars as homemade ready meals.
Amongst things I do this way are -
bolognaise
chilli con carne
minced meat curries
They are often indistinguishable when frozen and I dont bother to label them.

I sometimes eat chilli con carne with spaghetti, and rice with bolognaise and such like
... but one thing goes with all 3 - had baked potato bolognaise tonight

[West Ender]

My elder daughter Jo, when she was about 14, made an apple crumble in Home Economics at school. She brought it home and served it up, very proudly, for our pudding that night.

It must have been at least 10 years later when she told us she had knocked the dish over, in the school cloakroom, and most of the apple and a fair bit of crumble had slid on to the floor. She had scooped it up with paper from the loo and put it back in the dish. We, of course, had eaten it all up and told her how good it was.

[Margaret Pilkington]

what the eye doesn't see..........!

[jaysay]

I once ot one of those lasagna from ASDA, took the raper of put it on a tray gas mark 8 for 40 minutes, close the door retire to watching footy, just ready for half time, me thought, after ten minutes smelled burning, went in the kitchen, it was then I realised I'd turned on the grill instead of the oven, new grill pan required, as handle was burnt, stood back and just said you numpty

[shillelagh]

Posted via Mobile Deviceoh and a little tip for when you burn the bottom of a pan when you let the spuds or veg boil dry let the pan cool, then put half a cup of brown vinegar in fill with water and let it steep for half a day at least. Gets rid of the burnt stuff without trying to scrub it clean and damaging the pan!

[Gayle]

Burnt spaghetti once to the bottom of the pan so had to tip the pan over and use scissors to cut the edible bits of spaghetti off onto plates.

Always forget something with the Christmas dinner and find at least one pan that wasn't switched on or parsnips that never made it into the cooker etc. There's so much to think about.

[cashman]

well if ya can ****** salad up kid, yer in my league.

[grannyclaret]

if you forget that your boiling eggs,you remember when they fly out of the pan,,,..