kitchen disasters

A friend of mine gave me some sourdough starter in a sealed jam jar. I can't remember how long I stored it before trying to use it, but it wasn't more than a week. I pulled the jar out and loosened the top just a little and *BAM!* Th entire thing just exploded sourdough starter all over the kitchen. It was in the kitchen drawers, all over the counters and oven! After the initial bang my boyfriend came into the kitchen to see what was going on and you should have seen the look on his face when he saw me standing there with a jar in my hand, sourdough starter ALL OVER THE PLACE and a slightly dazed look on my face!

Did I forget to mention the slightly *yeasty* smell that lingered in the kitchen? :D

So please remember the moral of this story....never store sourdough starter in a tightly sealed container.

LOL! Kat, that's funny. :D

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My mom is famous for her spaghetti sauce, so when I was a teenager I invited my best friend over for Spaghetti! I had been going on and on about how gooooood my mom's spaghetti is *G* and she served us and eagerly I crammed some in my mouth *?!*

"Mom, the spaghetti sauce tastes........sweet!"
turns out she OOPS put TOO much sugar in it! LOL

Once when i was a punk kid I decided to play an April Fool's prank on my mom by switching the salt and sugar in her serving bowls.
Unbeknownst to me, my mom doesn't TAKE sugar in her coffee so the prank went undetected for at least a month!!! She had a friend of hers over a month or so after April 1, and as they started to sip their coffee, my mom's friend got a contorted look on her face, "Laurie, your coffee is SALTY"
LOL God, my mom was mad.

I love to make veggie stir fries, and I am forever perfecting my stir fry technique. One day I decided to make a biiiiiiiig yummy Stir Fry and bought like 6 bucks worth of veggies. I was busy chopping away and then dumped the lot in the wok. I turned it on and walked away for a moment, and like the slob I am, I wiped my hands off on my Tee shirt.
I happened to glance down and there was BLOOD in a bunch of places on it! I had cut myself cutting up the veggies and not noticed! LOL
There was no way I was gonna waste 6.00 worth of produce, so I ate the stirfry anyway!
And hey, I even took a pic of it it looked so good! hehe
http://www.lalania.com/stirfry.jpg

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Originally posted by Lalania
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I wiped my hands off on my Tee shirt.
I happened to glance down and there was BLOOD in a bunch of places on it! I had cut myself cutting up the veggies and not noticed! LOL
There was no way I was gonna waste 6.00 worth of produce, so I ate the stirfry anyway!
And hey, I even took a pic of it it looked so good! hehe
http://www.lalania.com/stirfry.jpg

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LOL - Kinda creeps ya out being a vegetarian and eating human blood, huh? Oh, well, at least it was your own!! Having done the same, I empathize with you!! BTW, your stir fry looks yummy!! I love stir fried veggies, nice and crispy. That's how I usually cook mine. Why is it someone else's cooking always is sooo much more enticing? ;)

LOL :D

pectin, sugar (again), yeast and blood....

just when i thought it was safe to go in the kitchen again.....

and the saddest part is when i go to cook again i am going to remember one of you whenever i eat caramel, pie, spaghetti, sugar, salt, bread, meat and meat by products, when i drink rum
or 'boones farm', (PECTIN??? why everyone knows pectin is on the top shelf of the sugar/spice aisle.....)
who the hell eats pectin??? .;)

actually i am gonna print out this thread and post it onto the
wall of the kitchen....



and btw, isn't 'allergic to milk' the same as 'lactose intolerant'?
for me i plan my day around having a nice bowl of cereal......
and dying the rest of the day!!!!

keep those recipes coming in.....

p.s. no food poisoning stories, thank god!!!!

You come up with the best threads Richard! Cudos to you. Lots of fun. Good idea about printing off the thread...I think I will too!

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Originally posted by Lalania
turns out she OOPS put TOO much sugar in it! LOL

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ugh ... you guys put SUGAR in your spaghetti-sauce ???? Ahum , not my taste ;) :p ;)

I do if the sauce is too acidy tasting...it cuts back on the sour taste. I only use like a teaspoon in a huge pot and I don't use it all the time. I wouldn't like a "sugary" tasting spaghetti sauce...EEWWW!! lol

You guys are funny!!!! Lut, Don't you use brown sugar when you make baked beans or Barb Q sauce? It would be on the same flavor.

Boones Farm! I haven't had it for 30 years! Do they still make it? It was about 99c a bottle then. Went down better than water!

Kohala , How long did you have that ham in your suitcase???????

Lalania, Have I got this right - your a vegetarian but you can still taste blood on occasion? LOL:eek:

Well I can honestly say I'm very glad I'm not the only one who has problems in the kitchen. I'm a complete idiot when it comes to cooking. I can make Mac and Cheese...which at times I still screw up, Ichiban noodles, and an omlette oh and I guess if I really really really really set my mind to it I can make some chicken wngs but I have to really concentrate.

How imcompetant am I in the kitchen you ask? Well let's see..I can't butter bread, it just ends up ripping when I try :o But that's not the worst. Do you know that if you don't put water in cup o noodles that they catch on fire when you put them in the microwave? I found that out the hard way...oh and nobody ever told me that metal wasn't supposed to go in the mircowave. I found that out the hard way as well...like when I set the ground beef on fire in the microwave and when I almost set a wendy's hamburger on fire in the microwave.

See incompetant.

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Originally posted by sammi

Kohala , How long did you have that ham in your suitcase???????

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Less than a day - I just went online to Smithfield hams and found they are deli served, that is, thin sliced. Also, I really think our hams were bad, because the curing process they talk about on the web site says nothing about them being moldy outside! LOL!
Teach me to buy a Smithfield at Walmart! Even in Virginia!

I was making Cheescake in a springform pan in the little see thru oven above the stoved. THhe achol dripped out and started a fire . I kept the door shut and turned the heat off. Cheesecake dead ,me fine but Inever made that cheesecake again. I didn't a sprinform pan for a year.:D

*wince* They should teach some chemistry in home ec. ;)

The only real cooking disaster I can remember comes from a bad set of ingredients. We tried to make salted soft shell crabs, but the crabs were not really soft shelled. We ended up with a bunch of salty chitin (crab shell) and not much else. We got take out Chinese.;)

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Originally posted by smokey the elder
*wince* They should teach some chemistry in home ec. ;)

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True, SmokeyTE - My dad was the one who taught me the most about cooking, and he taught me from his perspective as a chemistry teacher. I learned a lot from him about how ingredients interact. A lifesaver in the laboratories we call our kitchens!