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Posted on 08/09/2023 6:00:01 PM PDT by beachn4fun
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PING
I get to go first.
My latest kitchen mishap was hitting the brew button on the Keurig single-serve coffee maker but forgetting to put the cup underneath.
Coffee was everywhere but in the cup.
This is gonna be fun!
Good evening night owl ((HUGS
I’m heading to bed.
Have fun.
Nighty-night! Thanks for posting this for Ms B….wherever she is. LOL!
My In-Laws gave my wife and I a pasta maker. A novelty item to be sure, but I was intrigued with it and began playing around with it.
After a while, I got pretty good, I could get the consistency just right...I was able to make batches of excellent fresh pasta, ziti, linguini, fettucine. I would put portions in zip locks and when I wanted some, I could just pull it out and have fresh pasta!
My in laws were having a big party, so I offered to make the main course of fresh pasta...my father-in-law, the Italian guy he was, would make the sauce, and good sauce it was. I was really going to impress my in-laws.
The night before, I worked for several hours making enough pasta to feed 20 people. I carefully laid it out, placed it gently in zip-locks and placed it in the freezer.
Then next day, I came over with all that pasta. My In-laws have the biggest pasta pot you can imagine...it must be 25 gallons (in reality...maybe 10 I am guessing...:) so the thing took a frikking hour and a half to boil (or so it seemed)
When the water is boiling, I start throwing the pasta in, but...something ain’t quite right. It isn’t separating normally and is kind of...sticking together in great big huge ziplock sized globs.
Apparently, my clever little scheme didn’t scale up well, and the weight of the pasta on itself in the bags just pressed it all together.
Well...they had a good laugh at that, and my father in law mentioned he had boxes of pasta in the cellar (doesn’t everybody?) So...we dumped out the pot, threw away all that homemade pasta, refilled the pot and started heating the water again. An hour and a half later (again, so it seemed) the water was boiling, so I rip the top off the boxes and pour the pasta in.
I am watching it cook, dutifully stirring it, and I see all these little black specks and think “Hey...I didn’t put any pepper in there...”
And then I realized the pasta had been infested by weevils.
Well.
We threw it all out, and there was no pasta at that party!
Her family talked about that for a long time...:)
I’ve made quite a few, but non really recent!
My worst one was I forgot and totally DESTROYED a rack of lamb. I just put it in the oven and ...
Well, my hubby gave it last rites when I pulled it out of the oven!
LOL
He looked at it for a moment and said “What WAS it?”
I’m right here, Sissy!
LOL!
Sounds like it was doomed from the beginning!
Thanks for sharing that!
There you are.
The worst mishap that I can remember was:
I was making divinity for a Christmas party, but we were in Georgia where it is VERY humid, so what I ended up with was divinity soup. LOL!
We ate it with spoons. But I didn’t take it to the party.
Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))
Thanks for tonight’s thread. There will be a lot of laughs!
I can just see the look on his face. LOL!
Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
My Favorite thing to make for dinner is...
RESERVATIONS.
I tried fudge once.
ONCE!
I dunno what happened, but the spoon we were stirring
with had fudge stuck to it.
I mean, you could lift the whole POT with that spoon
still stuck in it!
LOL
Now I’m hungry for a grilled cheese sammich…..without the wrapper. :D
I also made “14 Clove Pork” one night, and that was a historic disaster. It was inedible...:)
And it completely stunk up our fridge, too.
And the trashcan.
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