Kitchen Blunders

[cjsmith]

OK, what's your worst, your funniest, your most obvious, your cleverest recovered, etc... kitchen blunder?

I have three to offer. You all know the brisket story already.

1) Carrot cake without the flour. OOPS. I remembered shortly after putting it in the oven, and fixed it. Took a while to live it down though.

2) I can't take credit for this: Bouillabaisse without shelling the shrimp. That was Amit, a guy known in our living group for... creative... cooking explorations. (Favorite quote: "Does it need more oregano?")

3) Fig bars from a mix, when I was something like seven. I added two cups of water to the light brown stuff and three tablespoons of water to the dark brown stuff. OOPS. I tried a couple of creative (for a seven-year-old) solutions to the gloppy crust mix. I set it on the warm spot on the counter above the dishwasher. Nope, it didn't get any drier. I put it in the oven. The bottom of the (plastic!) bowl started to mold itself to the rack and I got it out of there. Then I mixed the light brown stuff and the dark brown stuff together and made drop cookies.

OK, what are yours?

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[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Well, let's see. There was the time my ex and I tried to make Persimmon Jam. We made two errors: 1) we used a mixed of the two main types of persimmons, one of which MUST have the skins removed--but we didn't know that, and 2) we got interrupted, and put it in the fridge for a day or two before getting back to it. The result, once we got back to it, was sooooooo incredibly astringent and nasty that we declared it to be a biohazard, and made notes on our recipe card to never ever ever try this again. And we didn't.

Then there was the time that I made shortbread, and forgot the sugar. Coating it with chocolate was NOT helpful.