This is what I saw when I woke up this morning. That’s my dye table. Doesn’t look like I’ll be dyeing anytime soon huh? Maybe it’s some cosmic hint for me to take a break for a few days? I think we easily have a foot by now and it’s still snowing!
It’s a good thing I hauled ass over the weekend and finished dyeing all of the Indie Swag and that the post office is on the way to T.’s work. Because guess what? Indie Swag is on its way to you. T. dropped it all off this morning at 7:15am. I can’t believe we pulled it off and got it out so early. If it weren’t for this snowstorm you guys might get your swag before Christmas. (if you celebrate it that is) Maybe you still will. Who knows with this weather. All of the major highways are closed so it doesn’t look very promising. I can’t wait for you all to see it. I love this month’s swag.
We snuck out to to the grocery store before people were on the roads to grab a few things knowing we’d be stuck here all day today and possibly even tomorrow. White Bean Chili will be cooking in the crockpot soon and chocolate peanut butter cookies will be in the oven. If I can’t dye yarn I’ll cook. Hey, maybe I’ll even knit! Yes, Miss Wise-Ass Jessalu. Knitting! Did you not see my scarf I posted the other day? I knit! Shaddup! For anyone who loves to use a crockpot I highly recommend this book. The Biggest Book of Slow Cooker Recipes.
Since I’m stuck here for a while how about you all entertain me? Tell me your most disastrous cooking incident. Write about it here or on your blog. Just let me know where I can read it. Mine? I would have to say it was at my mother-in-laws 15 years ago. I decided to show off and cook my rockin’ lasagne. When it was all cooked and ready to take out of the oven, I proceeded to drop the whole thing on the opened, oven door and the floor. Can you say embarrassed much?
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Write a Comment»Thanks for the recipe link ms. S
Sounds perfect and delicious.
Can I just say? You have stolen our snow.
Minnesota has none and it is currently36 degrees lookin’ to hit 50 today.
Dude. Do not speak to me - I’m trying to not hate you for having snow for Xmess. (just kidding - I could never hate you, hehehe)
There was a scarf? How’d I miss that? Maybe when I hit my head from falling out of my chair in shock of seeing the knitting I got selective amnesia… *g*
At least you had the inexperience of youth to fall back on. My boyfriend did the exact same thing with a huge pile of chili cheese fries last week. (It was junk-food night.)
Mine? Probably the time I used a fringed kitchen towel to pull something out of the oven. The fringe touched the bottom heating element and caught fire. My reaction was to throw it on the floor…sort of…I actually threw it on the kitchen rug, which also promptly caught fire. Thank God for the tile floors - I managed to put everything out with only the loss of the towel, the rug, and my dignity.
Newly married, deep-fat frying chips in our largest saucepan on high heat on an electric stove. I didn’t realise I’d overfilled the pan with oil so that when I’d added all the chips some of the oil overflowed and *WHOOOMP* I had a small, cheerful open fire on the top of the stove. ‘Don’t panic’, I thought. I switched the power off, and briefly considered the various ways I’d heard of putting out a chip pan fire… except the fire wasn’t in the pan, it was on the stove. I put the lid on the pan and moved it away from the flames before testing the first method: smothering the fire in flour. You *know* what’s coming. I’ve no idea if this works with lots of flour, but I didn’t have enough. I got a beautiful cloud of tiny sparks swirling up to blacken the cupboards and a small pile of scorched flour in the middle of the small, cheerful fire. Fortunately the soaked tea- and handtowels worked perfectly.
i can’t think of my most embarassing, so i’ll tell you my most recent–last night.
we have friends staying with us so i pulled out all the stops–roasted potatoes, steak
on the BBQ, corn bread etc etc.
So there were 2 types of steak: Pre-marinated and ones that I marinated myself–pepper steak.
So I;m eating one of the ones that I marinated myself and said something about
too much pepper sauce on my steak and my friend pipes up with “Well, my pork chop is lovely”
I served pork chops and didn’t even know it…DUH.
One night when I was cooking a baked potato in the microwave, I decided to wrap it in a towel to keep it from leaking potato juice all over the microwave. (I know, potato juice? But they do leak.) I set the towel on fire. There was smoke and smoldring towel and the potato was definitely baked. lol Luckily Will is a volunteer firefighter and talked me through dousing the towel.
I also managed to create “crunchy spaghetti” one night when I didn’t quite get it cooked thoroughly before serving it to my boyfriend (now fiance) . We still laugh about that one.
Nothing I cook really turns out well. But I just might try the white ean chili!
Mmmm, white bean chili… I broke out the crock pot today too. It’s Old Fashioned Meat Loaf for us.
You finished knitting something? How did I miss that post?
I’m going to have to try that soup recipe.
Thr most embarrasing for me was way back when as a green bean cook I was trying to
impress my boyfriend (now husband) by making him dinner. I cooked up a huge pot
of pepper beef. It sounded really good and looked good on the recipe card. Only thing
was that little did I know that my boyfriend hated green peppers!!! To add insult to
injury… The meet was super chewy and hard—How embarrasing:(
I’ve also been known for cutting corners and paying for it–last bad incident was earlier
this year when I was frying up some Tempura. I decided I would use little oil and kept
whisking around the tempura in the little bit of oil thinking it would somehow be
healthier. Well this was just asking for trouble right…. I scoup up some of the oil with
the spoon to cover some of the tempura and off the oil went and landed on my hand!!!
Talk about painful first degree burns!@#!
Well well.. come on over.. you made me put up a second post today!
stop on by.. http://www.knitchat.com!
Denise
Oh and Hey— Do you give yourself a well deserved break my dear! We want you happy
and healthy this new year:)
Take good care and happy holidays to you and your family:)
Love your pics from yesterday, can you believe how much snow we have got.
It is only in the last few years that I have started to cook, when I first met my husband
I decided I would cook for him!!! big mistake, I who could’nt even boil water. I
made some kind of pot pie, I had spent all day getting it ready and when I
went to take it out of the oven, it had exploded all over the oven!! There were
pieces of pastry, and vegs everywhere in the oven. But despite my cooking or lack
of it we ended up married.
Girl, you totally held out on me… letting me fall totally in love with Abq without mentioning VAST amounts of snow that tend to fall, heh. ah, well, too late now…
And yes, you DO need a day off to play. Enjoy!
Mother Nature wants you to relax for a bit. ;^)
I was 12. Made pumkin pie in my mother’s country kitchen. Used salt rather than sugar. Everything was kept in clear glass jars. I didn’t stand a chance. Although, I was off the hook for baking for a while. *L*
holy moly!
how is it you, in new mexico, have that much snow and i, in vermont, have absolutely NO snow? it’s just not fair. my kids are so ready to skate and sled and they can’t do it!
You’ve got snow - and we have 51 and sunny! I can’t complain - at least it’s not 70 anymore (like it was on Monday).
I’m wracking my brain for a cooking disaster, and I can’t think of one. I am a damned fine cook. My husband, on the other hand, is also a very fine cook BUT has had one definite disaster. I came home from work one night to the most ghastly smell in the house. He had defrosted some nice tuna filets and chopped up some cauliflower…to make soup. Pureed with our stick blender. It was vomit colored, and had approximately the same fragrance. I gagged on one spoonful and he choked down a whole bowl. I cried because of the waste…he could have sauteed the tuna and cooked the veg with some butter and all would have been well.
He’ll never live down the tunaflower soup. Poor guy. Otherwise, he does an outstanding job in the kitchen.
the clouds must have misread the snowdrop directions - NM, MN. that must be why you have all the snow and we don’t.
I got to fondle some of your swag yarn at Rogue’s Gallery last night. it took a lot of willpower (and a lack of cash and credit cards) to make it out of there without buying it all! (I love having a source for cool yarns like yours just up the road!)
Please send that snow in the direction of Norway!
I hope we get snow before christmas eve here.
I think that’s a hint you need to take a break! Can I come to your house for dinner??
Disasterous cooking - first time I tried to make gluten-free pizza. I used water that was too hot for the yeast and killed it, so my crust never rose. It was translucent and rubbering - we peeled off the toppings and cheese and just ate that. The leftover crust with some sauce on it looked like flayed skin. EWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
Longtime lurker decided to chime in … answer posted to my blog. =)
Mine is similar - I was making a pasta/cheese/sauce dish for hubbo (we were dating), and after I layered it all in there, I opened the oven door, bumped the glass casserole dish, and well, you can guess the rest. Tomato sauce, pasta and glass all over the kitchen. I was still finding dried tomato sauce when I moved out several months later. Luckily, he loves to cook, so this incident hasn’t had to be repeated.
Enjoy your snow - I’m totally jealous!
Ooohh, the swag is on it’s way!! Hurrah!!! My worst cooking goof - well, one night I got it into my head to make a lemon cream sauce for our pasta. Duh!!! You can all guess what happens when you mix lemons and cream. A big curdled mess. (What was I thinking??) I had to throw it out and we had butter and Parmesan cheese on the pasta instead. LOL
We’ve gotten that much snow too - just since about 5 am this morning! We are officially snowed in - so glad Jay didn’t go to work today. You know it’s a good storm when the malls close at 3pm 5 days before Christmas.
My worst cooking disaster was when I decided to make an ice cream cake for Emmy’s birthday. I baked the cake, but then had to go run some errands. Our dog was nearly full grown, but still a puppy then and had been known to steal food off the counter. In fact, a few months before he had eaten an entire pie. So, I put the cake on top of the fridge to cool. Came home from my errands and the cake was upside down on the kitchen floor in about a jillion pieces and the dog had just started eating. I think it slid off the fridge when I slammed the door to the garage. That was the first birthday party that we had ice cream sundaes and no cake
Oooh - I’m very excited - Swag and Christmas, too!
I can’t believe all the snow you have! I live in Ottawa (capital of
Canada - and supposedly the second coldest & snowiest capital in the
world) and there isn’t a flake down! Totally bizarre…
Cooking disaster? Not mine exactly, my poor Hubby’s, who is actually a
phenomenal cook. Old friends on the way for supper, two cooks in the
kitchen, Hubby sets down a glass pyrex on a burner that he was heating
to boil water. I saw the red hot burner through the pyrex and shouted,
he grabbed the pyrex off the burner, but the quick cooling caused it to
literally explode. Everywhere. Including into my legs and forearms - I was
wearing shorts. We had to throw out everything that was cooking, get me
bandaged up and order takeout. Four years later, I would still find a shard
from time to time in the weirdest places.
I made a pumpkin cheesecake for a Christmas party earlier this year. I used gingerbread graham crackers, but I food processed them a little too well. After the cheesecake was put in the oven, the kitchen filled with smoke. And I could not figure out why…the graham crackers didn’t hold onto the butter very well, so it was dripping out of the sides of the springform pan. Nothing smokes quite like butter on the bottom of the oven. So for the party we had special smoked pumpkin cheesecake. (Tasted fine, but the crust was a bit petrified.)
My boss sent us home at 3 yesterday because of all the snow. I love snow, but hate walking on ice packed parking lot/sidewalks. Yuck.
I seem to embarrass myself every time I cook! In home ec in 7th grade I set potholders
on fire when making hot chocolate. I hated home ec and was resentful that I couldn’t be
in shop with the boys making things with saws and nails. Oh, the 80s were so unfair!
Sweet fancy moses! In Detroit we have been snowless so far this season, save the half an inch or so we got one day a few weeks ago that promptly melted! None coming anytime soon either, it’s like 50 degrees out. I don’t mind though!
My most embarassing cookie moments? Well, I’ve got two, and they both happened within a couple months of each other.
1. Some friends I’d never met before (i.e. people I knew off teh Intarwub who were coming through to visit) came over, and I was going to make them enchiladas for dinner. I’d made the filling, and so turned on the oven to pre-heat and began preparing the actual enchiladas. Suddenly I notice a strange smell, and open the oven to discover that I’d been baking a big wooden cutting board that Hubby had decided to store in the oven for reasons unknown. To this day, people comment on my Baked Cutting Board recipe.
2. My best friend was coming to visit with her new boyfriend (who is now her husband), in part so I could meet him. So for dinner the night of their arrival, I made souvlaki. Hubby was working evenings at this time while I was working days. I came home to discover a small cup of cucumber-yogurt sauce already prepared, and so I was all, “Oh, what a guy! I didn’t even have to ask!” I made the souvlaki and served it up with dollops of the yogurt sauce on the side. I sat down with my own plate and took a taste of the yogurt sauce, only to realize it seemed rather odd. I noticed my friend and her boyfriend hadn’t tried it yet. Hubby called then from work, so I chatted with him for a moment and thanked him for making the yogurt sauce, when he informed me, “Um, I didn’t make yogurt sauce.” Finally it all clicked together, and I realized that I’d served souvlaki garnished with cold Campbell’s Chunky clam chowder which was the other half of the can I’d taken to work for lunch that day!
I remember some of the snow storms when I lived there! It is amazing how fast they can pop up. Driving was interesting in ABQ, especially in snow. I can’t believe you will have a white Christmas and we won’t here in Wisconsin!! Have fun with the kids and enjoy some knitting! After all your hard work, you deserve it!! I hope you do your Indie Swag club again, and I hope I am fast enough to get in!!
I am in the Southern Ontario snowbelt and we have NO SNOW either. Seems the ol’ belt has shifted south this year.
Worst cooking incident? Well, did you know that you can’t make Kraft Dinner macaroni and cheese with chocolate milk? Yeah, neither did my husband.
He’s a great cook now though!
Mine was the time I tried to make beans. White beans with ham hocks or some such. You know, the beans start out dried, you soak them overnight, then cook them forever? I had library paste! Haven’t tried that again!
I’ll have to run down your link to the white bean chili, and see if I can do that!
My daughter used to run out into the backyard and then stand there looking at the house whenever she saw me put the wok on the stove. She said she hated the sound of the smoke alarm. oh. My cooking skills are not the best.
Most embarrassing cooking moments–there are so many . . . let’s start with the fact that I burn pizza bagels EVERY TIME, and I can’t microwave popcorn without burning it either. It’s downhill from there, as far as me in the kitchen goes!!
The smoke detector is ALWAYS going off . . .
I’m so excited that the Swag is coming! Too bad I won’t be here when it arrives
I’m trying to think of a cooking disaster but it’s difficult to come up with anything. Not because there are so few, but because there are so many - I worked in restaurant kitchens for a few years and there were plenty of incidents that left me crying in the middle of the dinner rush. I guess I’ll have to think about it and maybe make a post telling my story.
About 18 years ago, we spent a few months living with my husband’s grandparents. Since they were providing a roof over our heads, AND daycare for our now 20 year old son, I felt it was only right to do as much of the cooking as I could manage while working a full-time job in a town an hour away. So one weekend I went to the store and bought fixin’s for a fish dinner. I bought orange roughy, and was warned by the fish guy to cook it simply and to take care not to overcook it. So I went home and prepared dinner carefully cooked my fish and prepared to serve it. I had decided to cook it in packets of foil dressed only with a bit of lemon juice, so when it was served, each packet was placed on a plate. When you opened the packets, the fish looked really good, perfectly cooked and flakey. Then you stick your fork in…………..Well, the fish guy never told me what would happen when you overcooked Orange Roughy, even just a little. It basically disintegrates. I was serving something that had the consistancy of fish OATMEAL. I still get the willies when I cook fish!
I have a story for you over on my bloggy to entertain you. Sorry that you are buried under snow. I will still move over there by you :), you have beautiful weather most of the time.
Hmmm, probably my best disaster was when I was making a caramelized apple tart for a fancy dinner with friends. I’d made the same recipe before and it was fantastic, so I figured I’d repeat my success. Well I was short on prep time, so I cut up the apples in the morning, and tossed them in some lemon juice so they wouldn’t be all brown when I got home. Well, the recipe involves putting down the apples with lots of sugar and butter and super heating it until the sugar caramelizes on the apples, and then you put a crust on top and bake it in the oven for a bit. Well, I hadn’t thought of this, but lemon juice + butter + sugar = curdled butter and no caramelizing. Basically I pulled it out of the oven and flipped it out of the pan and the whole top was completely black. And the thing tasted rancid. Next time I’ll chop the apples right before I use them.
You have more snow than we’ve gotten this winter!
As for disasters, let’s go with my first. I was 6, maybe 7. Loved melted butter on toast. I got smart: toast, add butter; rinse, repeat. Same bread, more butter, super crispy! On the third time through, the toaster caught on fire and scared the hell out of me. That was the end of that.
I have two big disasters that have occurred in my kitchen.
The first has to do with me making my signature dish, which is macaroni and cheese. I make the kind with sour creme and cottage cheese, which is a great combination. You mix everything up and then put in the noodles and then bake. I was making it for a church function and got it ready and popped it into the oven while I was getting ready. All should have been well with it and it should have been ready, but it wasn’t fully cooked and still runny when I checked it. Oh yeah.. I forgot to add the noodles. Yeah.. I’m naturally blond!
The second was a total Duh JP moment. I was transferring a whole package of dry grits into a new container and the bag that I was getting them out of had a hole. Basically, I had about half a pound of grits in my sink before I realized it. I, being the brainiac that I am, turned on the sink. Grits expand. Not good. That plumber who came to fix my sink thought it was hysterical. Needless to say, I don’t buy grits anymore.
I hope that these little glimses into my insanity made your day!
I made the White Bean Chili last night and brought t to a friend’s for dinner tonight. It was a big hit!
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