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Newlywed turkey trouble

hmsweaver — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:53:13 -0600

Yes, I cooked a turkey with the bag of giblets still inside! It was my first Thanksgiving married to my hubby (12 years ago), and we still laugh about it now! Glad to know I'm not the only one.

You can read the whole embarrassing story, and maybe you'll feel better about your own cooking!

Heather
Musings of a Modern Mom

Roasted Ambitions

Bad Home Cook — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:46:53 -0600

Thanks, Elisa! I will.
And I know, it's supposed to be easy....that's just what's so maddening!

Baked vegetables is one of my stand-bys, Bad Home Cook

Elisa Camahort — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:51:59 -0600

Email me, and I will happily share my typical 'recipe"

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.org

Roasted ambitions

Bad Home Cook — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:40:27 -0600

Food Fiasco? My whole blog is about food fiascos. Follow this link (which I can't seem to hypertext in this comment box), to an all-too-typical misadventure.
http://badhomecooking.typepad.com/bad_home_cooking/2007/09/roasted-ambit...

One snafu after another

mamarant — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:20:39 -0600

First, I tripled instead of doubled the pumpkin pie recipe and had to thrown out the partially made batter and start over.

Then I nearly burnt the pumpkin pie. (I had to cook the crust at 400 and forgot to turn it down to 350 for the pie.)

After than I turned off the oven BEFORE trying to bake the cookies.

Then the fudge never set.

But it was a wonderful meal. The adults all enjoyed it. My mother-in-law was thrilled with all the gluten free dishes I made including the pie, the stuffing, and the gravy. My husband even complimented me the next day on the wonderful meal. (You can see recipes for everything at http://www.thismamacooks.com/2007/11/my-complete-tha.html.)

But I couldn't get the kids to eat it - well barely - and they refuse to touch the leftovers. Fine, eat Campbell's soup. See if I care.

Dessert Turned Me Into a Liar

Dating Trooper — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:39:47 -0600

I made the mistake of attempting to bake my very first pie for our Thanksgiving Dinner. Let's just say the disaster that followed caused me to tell (and sustain) my first lie. I'm just hoping my boyfriend the foodie doesn't find out...or at least understands when he does! I wrote about it here:
http://www.datingiswarfare.com/2007/11/sweet-deception.html

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

Dating Trooper
http://www.datingiswarfare.com

Uh oh.

Joy Johnson — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:08:55 -0600

I wish I would have read this post before I headed out to Whole Foods yesterday. But I didn't, so my plan to try Tofurky this year will go forward. I'm actually kind of excited to try. I'm also hoping they have refined their recipe in the past 12 years. Fingers-crossed!

I'll let you know how it goes!

Joy

Another very large turkey

Kalyn Denny — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:27:05 -0600

I just laughed over this post about a VERY large turkey at Christine Cooks.

Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen

A very large turkey

IAAdmin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:25:32 -0600

One year, the turkey I brought to my sister's house was too large for her oven. We ended up driving the turkey to her mother-in-laws house and cooking it there. Then we had to transport it back to my sister's house for the main attraction, Thanksgiving dinner.

In case you're wondering, the turkey was almost 30lbs.......................:)

Lisa

Torfurky...Yikes!

Lovebabz — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:05:29 -0600

When I met and married my husband 12 years ago I was a vegetarian. So that first Thanksgiving I had this idea to have a vegetarian holiday. I bought and made a Tofurky with it's own gravy. Oh my GOD it was the worst thing I have ever had in my life. My husband gracously ate it and didn't complain--ok I didn't hear any complaints until several years later. Now that we are divorcing we still laugh about that Torfurky. I am cracking up as I post this.

Love,
Babz
www.lovebabz.blogspot.com

Thank Goodness for Traveling for the Holidays!

Shash — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:39:16 -0600

I don't have to cook this year, and the family is very grateful. Frankly, so am I. :)

Shash

Diary of a Crazed Mommy

Fiasco?

Denise — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:22:19 -0600

Not me but my son is a walking disaster area at holiday dinners.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Fast Times @ Homeschool High & Flamingo House Happenings

Question of the Week: Have you experienced any holiday food fiascos?

chris — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:37:35 -0600

My misadventures in the kitchen are legendary, so legendary in fact that my family has just come to expect them as the inevitable fact of my cooking.

Let's see there was the time I cooked the turkey with the plastic wrapped neck and gizzards still inside. But who hasn't done that, right? Let me see a show of hands. Thank you, I feel better.

Then there was that time I put the turkey in the oven frozen thinking that surely it would defrost as it cooked. I pulled out a golden looking turkey that was still frozen in the center. Maybe if I had cooked it in the oven for another 15 hours, until the outside was charred black dust, the inside would have been edible.

Or the time I made soup and put it in the soup tureen on the table well in advance of the rest of the meal being done. (A meal which was late getting on the table because I had not mastered the food timing juggle.) When we sat down to eat the soup was iced cold, prompting this infamous quote from my mother-in-law, "Food just doesn't stay hot the way it used to." Ah yes, because we know over the past 50 years the Laws of Thermodynamics have changed dramatically.

Oh, and there was that one year we were dog sitting for our friend's black lab over the holidays. They told us that he would eat everything he came across, but the full extent of this tidbit came on Christmas morning when the dog got into our walk in pantry. A pantry where I had put all the cakes, pies and desserts I had slaved over for an entire week.

The dog ate them all. Every last bit of delectable dessert gone in a few moments. And then he vomited it all back up all over the previously mopped kitchen floor, the horror of which I am not sure I can fully express. I did empathize with all those kids who have ever had to say the dog ate their homework.

I almost forgot about this one. I'll offer it up as a tip to you from me, because I am nice like that. Should you want to make festive rice crispy treats for your family as an easy child friendly dessert, go with the green food coloring. The red food coloring make it look like a plate of raw hamburger meat. Although the disgusted looks on the faces of your family while you pretend you are eating raw meat are pretty priceless, so maybe not quite a fiasco as a way to gross ouot your friends and family on a holiday.

Wow, it really is a miracle that any of family ever come over and expect to eat at my house, isn't it?

So how about you? Please tell me you have food fiascos to share? Tell me I am not alone. Please?

Post it on your blog and come back to add your link.

When Chris isn't blogging about her life at Notes from the Trenches or impressing her family and friends with her mad cooking skillz, she is working to rescue her house from a century of neglect and bad taste.