Worst nightmares in of/from the kitchen....

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joanietoo

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I was asked to take a dish along to a 40th birthday this w-end.

I made an orzo, lentil, feta salad. Very yummy but then I thought I'd also make a cake.

After much deliberation I decided on "Ouma's Apple Pie" as it is very quick and easy but I'd use crushed pineapples and walnuts instead.

I made it late in the day so it would be warm when serving...IE hot to take along, last minute BIG MISTAKE.....

The cake is a batter made with self-raising flour and then the fruit is put on top, baked then a sauce of cream and sugar is poured over the hot cake...I add rum to this.

Anyway, I made the cake and it came out FLAT?????

Two days before I had tried the recipe for "festival" the Jamaican fried cakes...they were very doughy...didnt think about it...2 days before that I made little upside down pineapple puds with the same flour but the grandies helped me and they were rather flat but I put it to the young uns not doing it right.

NOW the cake came outta the oven as we were to leave and it was ridiculous....I took it anyway and 3/4 had been eaten by the time we left but I was shame-faced about this offering. The saving grace, I think, was the rum and fruit.

Today I used the flour with baking powder and the cake is fantastic...The flour in the "Self-Raising" flour tin CAN NOT be self-raising....

 
Joanietoo, I feel your pain. I once made a carrot cake and the d8&% thing never set. The only thing

I can think of is I left out the eggs.

 
My first Thanksgiving turkey EONS ago... actually came out quite beautiful and golden...

Went to slice it and this funny bag of stuff came out of it's insides -- no one had told me that the innards had to be removed!

When I was 12 I decided to make a pie for granny who was coming to visit so I made a lovely apple pie. Knew how to make crust and everything by then. It cut into perfect slices and I watched granny take a big bite -- then make a really screwed-up face. Turns out, in my excitement, I had forgotten the sugar... ah well!

 
Repeat without percent sign. I once made a carrot cake and the darn thing would

not bake properly. My only thought is I may have forgotten the eggs. The cake was meant to be a very special birthday cake. We had store bought instead.

 
The disintegrating blender. I made a soup for some guests once. I was cleaning up before they

arrived and I could not find anywhere the rubber ring that sealed the blade part to the canister. I became convinced that it had somehow been chewed up and was now part of the soup. At the dinner table I took one taste of soup and of course all I could taste was ground-up rubber; my partner says my face blanched and I looked stunned for the whole course and could not utter a word. Everyone else, of course, loved the soup and chatted merrily. Except one of our guests that night died a few months later. He had a terminal illness, but to this day I swear that rubber ring sent him to an early grave!

 
OH! The guilt!!!! My best friend made a pecan once for an older friend who was visiting -

the next day she got a call from his wife that he had a heart attack and was in the hospital. Just to show what a wonderful personality he had, Judy went to visit him and when he saw her he croaked out "It ... was.... the.... pie...". Then collapsed in a fit of laughter. To this day she's not sure if it was her pie or not, but she's Jewish so she's used to doing guilt really well anyway...heehee

 
Mine happened just last year. I told friends about this wonderful Greek baked fish and

they flew over from another island JUST to have dinner because I talked it up so much. This is one of Evelyn's wonderful Greek dishes and I've made it very successfully a few times.

This time I chose to save a few pennies and picked an Atlantic frozen white fish to use in the recipe- something I hadn't tried before. Recipe calls for chunks of fish with other wonderful things, baked until done.

The fish literally DISSOLVED. Turned to foul-tasting mush. I could not even turn it into something else at the last minute. It was so horrible I had to dump the entire roasting pan down the disposal. So embarrassing but mostly it amazed me that it could happen. I've forgotten what kind of fish it was but I know I will only use fish I understand from now on.

Good thing we had a lovely Greek salad, bread and dessert because that is what we all ate. Lucky these were good friends.

Here is the recipe- made with decent fish it is very, very good.

http://eat.at/swap/forum28/163_Athens-style_Baked_Fish

 
All these um, upsets, are horrid CathyZ I am sure the food still would .....

have tasted OK
but Metal screws in the food ...OH dear.....
Shaun, it wasn't the rubber, LOL!
Cheezz...that has happened to almost everyone even if they wont admit it...smileys/smile.gif
Oh sorry Slyvia.....
But we survive inspite of it all.....
OOOPS


And the worst thing one of the young at the party called me for the recipe....she is 16 and a great cook but she said the flavour was divine (perhaps it was the rum)!

 
my garbage disposal clogged up 1/2 hour before 12 ladies were coming to my house for bookclub. gaah

I found out that I had plumbing skills I never knew I had! a quick fix was to move the over-the-sink cutting board to that side of the sink. if you cna't fix it, hide it.

 
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