I have posted about this before, but I once made up a fantastic long slow cooked chicken stock. With all the veggies and herbs and chicken bones. It was divine.
Then when I went to strain all the bay leaves and bones out of it, I strained the beautiful chicken stock right down the kitchen sink!
My other disaster was to cook up a yummy sausage casserole for a GF who had just come home from having her first baby. I piped mash potato and everything on top so that it was a "one pot meal". I drove down our drive to deliver it to her house, heard a massive clunk and crash and realised I had left the damn casserole on top of the car and it had flown off as I reversed..........sausage and mash and broken earthenware ALL over the road........
I forgot to put the milk into a pumpkin and ginger pudding that I was making to take to a friend's for dessert, and realised about five minutes after I'd put it into the oven. So I took it out and added the milk, it was a bit lumpy, but not too bad. OK, good recovery so far. But then I wondered why it looked so flat - and realised that the person who'd given me the recipe had just put 'flour' instead of 'SR flour' - there was no rising agent. They weren't too bad with lots and lots of double cream
And a couple of Christmases ago I was cooking my first ever Christmas lunch, my family were all up from Melbourne. I was 10 weeks pregnant at the time. Three courses, turkey, the works. First disaster, the turkey buffe I'd ordered turned out to be a whole turkey. OK, so we dealt with that. Shoved a lemon and some herbs in the cavity, some butter with lemon and orange zest under the skin of the breast - mmmm succulent. Dessert was aforementioned pumpkin/ginger puds (with SR flour this time), and my famous citron tart, which is a labour of love, the custard taking about 1 1/2 hours of stirring over a very slow heat. I made two, as the custard recipe always made extra. Lucky for that, because as I was sliding the second one out of the oven, it flipped and went SPLAT, face down on the floor. Oooh boy did Suse have a little tanty at that point, there was stomping of feet and much cursing.
And then there were my DP at the time's famous geo-pancakes. He was positive that pancakes were made with cornflour...
we have a super dodgy oven at the moment (only REALLY use it for cooking things like oven nuggets, wedges etc) - well, i set it at the same temp ALL the time, set a timer and everything - and one night things will be perfect - next almost charcoal! it's very frustrating as it's mostly happening now that i'm pg! grrrr - when i need to eat, i NEED to eat!
ummm, same oven - was baking a cake that i had been longing for. a simple vanilla cake with a tin of tropical fruit salad - it was looking perfectly done - slid it out of the oven, and went to stick a probe in to check it was cooked through - burnt my finger on the edge of the tray, and dropped it all on the oven door - it wasn't ready - so there was smooshed cake all over the oven door. thankfully i'd had too much cake mix, so put a few serves in muffin tray - i got to eat my cake, but didn't get to share with anyone!
i'm sure there are other things - but can't for the life of me think of them at the moment!
Instead of embarrassing myself, I'm going to incriminate DH, hee hee
I was having a bad day, so he decided to make dinner so I could sleep. He put FAR too much milk in the mashed potato, so decided to beef it up with cornflour. He set it out very nice on the plates, got everything ready, and then woke me up for dinner. I took one look at the potatoes and asked what had happened, and thats when he confessed.
Funniest thing was, he swore blind that MIL always does that if she puts too much milk in - that is, until I made him taste them!
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