Uh-Oh....I think I blew it!

[ksmybuttons]

Every holiday, I make a Cheese Horn for breakfast. It is a wonderful little "good morning" roll with a cream cheese filling.

My son absolutely adores them. He asked me to make them for him for Thanksgiving, so I am.

When I went shopping yesterday, on a whim, I decided to get whole wheat pastry flour.

I just mixed them up and the texture is all wrong, I can tell, even before the rising.

I am going to disappoint him. I just know it...


Thanksgiving day food failures. Make me feel better. Share yours.

 

[DarkAngel]

I once left a turkey in the oven and forgot about it till we were puttin git out with the fire department.

 

[Aphrodisiac]

My mom used to make home made flour tortillas which we all love but then she got alll healthy and started making us "wheat" tortillas and we are all like ... "icky ....

 

[ksmybuttons]

Horrors. My mother in law was making the gravy and it wasn't as dark as she wanted. Not having Kichen Bouquet, she decided to add red and green food coloring. She added the green, reached for the red, and there wasn't any.

This happened when my husband was a child. Every holiday the family would bring up the green gravy and laugh.

You never get to live it down.


I can already hear it: "Remember when mom made the hard rock cheese horns? We played catch with them in the street? They wouldn't break when they hit the wall?...They were great hockey pucks, though."

 

[DarkAngel]

Horrors. My mother in law was making the gravy and it wasn't as dark as she wanted. Not having Kichen Bouquet, she decided to add red and green food coloring. She added the green, reached for the red, and there wasn't any.

This happened when my husband was a child. Every holiday the family would bring up the green gravy and laugh.

You never get to live it down.


I can already hear it: "Remember when mom made the hard rock cheese horns? We played catch with them in the street? They wouldn't break when they hit the wall?...They were great hockey pucks, though."

Sounds like my moms biscuts.. We did play hockey with them..

They were also very good for teething

 

[Neftoon_Zamora]

I make a chocolate raspberry truffle with cream and Bakers semi sweet chocolate. Last year I had other things on my mind when I did the shopping, and I bought the unsweetened blocks of chocolate instead of the semi sweet. I never noticed it until I had it all put together and licked my finger. It was the first year in about 15, that there was no truffle at the Zamora household.

 

[Cheyenne]

Thanksgiving day food failures. Make me feel better. Share yours.

Smoked pumpkin pies.

 

[DarkAngel]

Re: Re: Uh-Oh....I think I blew it!

Smoked pumpkin pies.

*snicker*

i thought we went over that..

 

[bknight2602]

How about a chees cake that didn't rise!

 

[Nora]

Cheese cake's supposed to rise?


kmb, you ain't had a kitchen disaster 'til you've accidentally left the eggs out of a cake. mmmm...choco-projectiles!

 

[ksmybuttons]

The rolls are baked. They came out yummy. Disaster diverted!

 

[ksmybuttons]

Re: Re: Uh-Oh....I think I blew it!

Smoked pumpkin pies.

I bet your pies are tummy pleasing yummy, too. A little overflow is not a bad thing.

 

[Chantal Marchon]

well, last thanksgiving, I stuffed my turkey with a huge bundle of sage for flavor. It wasn't bad. Just interesting.

Bad was when my mom made catfish fajitas-

 

[ksmybuttons]

I cook very rarely. It is the husband's job. I cook holiday meals and the occasional Sunday dinner type thing. I did do most of the cooking for the first 7 years.

The really bad uh-ohs always seem to happen on a holiday...

 

[MNGuy]

My pizza arrived cold.

 

[Soblue]

This is not my blunder, but I had to taste it none the less.

One year my son made brownies and used 1/4 cup of salt instead of 1/4 teaspoon. Trust me, you have never tasted anything so horrible.

 

[Guest]

New to the New World where giblets come in plastic bags inside the turkey.....believe me, turkey roasted with plastic-bag stuffing....not good!

 

[Sensua]

I cook very rarely. It is the husband's job. I cook holiday meals and the occasional Sunday dinner type thing. I did do most of the cooking for the first 7 years.

The really bad uh-ohs always seem to happen on a holiday...

This is SOOO us! Guru has been cooking for the last 20 years of our marriage. He's great....the boys used to think I didn't know how to cook...they even said they needed to learn so they could "get a good wife"! *grins*

Well...if they learn to cook like Guru...they will get *good* wives! Ones who aren't "too tired" for evening activities!

 

[ksmybuttons]

Nice to meet you, Sensua!

So you are cooking todayor Guru? We just put the chicken in the oven. Got a 7 pound free range. Prefer chicken to turkey. The beans and brussel sprouts are ready. The salad is in the spinner. Just a little break here before I peel the potatoes. Good music playing. I am going to peel potatoes and then go into the hot tub for a bit before I shower and finish up my ablutions for the day. At 1:30 no less.

It's good to just be the family now and then.

 

[ksmybuttons]

New to the New World where giblets come in plastic bags inside the turkey.....believe me, turkey roasted with plastic-bag stuffing....not good!

Oooo! That is bad. I can smell it now! My chicken had no giblets...the neck is still attached...

 

[Blindinthedark]

This didn't happen to me or on Thanksgiving but it's still funny

A friend of mine tried to bake a chicken but
1) He didn't season it at all
2) Forgot to thaw it
3) Forgot to pull out the pack of gizzard inside

Just straight out of the package into an oven that wasn't hot enough.
He's not a great cook. I think they had burgers that day.

 

[Cheyenne]

Re: Re: Re: Uh-Oh....I think I blew it!

I bet your pies are tummy pleasing yummy, too. A little overflow is not a bad thing.

Yup, they were yummy! Even the kids in the family are starting to learn to eat pumpkin where they turned their nose up in the past at it being "icky."

I have a piece I brought home for breakfast tomorrow.

 

[curious2c]

I have been doing most of the cooking around our house for the last...twenty years...today I did a stupid one...deep fat fryed a turkey...decided to let it go about three or four more minutes...should have pulled it when I had the chance...a bit...dry...shrunk...and crusty. Had just enough for everyone...but was quite embarrassed. (It was the first time frying a turkey though.)

 

[Sensua]

I saw a bit on TV about how dangerous those deep fryers can be. The ones with three legs are unstable, and it's impossible to tell how much oil to put in BEFORE you add the bird. But I'lve been told by those who know...that it is absolutely fabulous when done right.

<snip>Nice to meet you, Sensua! <snip>

Nice to me you too, ksmybuttons!
And YAY! Guru did the cooking. He barbequed the bird, and I think it's the best we've had yet! No guests, just us and the boys...so no pressure to please. I did, however, bake the pumpkin pie....psst, don't tell my boys pumpkin is a vegetable. They think they didn't have to eat any yesterday....*grins*