Stupid Kitchen Mistakes?

[Laura's Babies]

LOL! Green cookies? I see nothing wrong with that! I have often wanted to dye my rolls green on St Patty's Day but never have been brave enough to do it.

The color of food has nothing to do with the flavor... I'd have not paid attention to the color at all..

[PJ's Mom]

Probably the dumbest thing I've done in the kitchen is cooking the giblets and the neck in the turkey. Imagine my surprise when I carved the turkey and saw that little bag in there.

[gini]

I have this great recipe for chocolate mousse. You make it in a blender and as the ingredients are blending you are supposed to shove them down the sides with a spatula.

BUT.............I dropped the spatula by accident and it lifted the ingredients and in a perfect circle I had chocolate mousse all over the curtains - the counter - me - on the wall - and back on the other side of the curtains.

I was finding chocolate mousse for years.....................and I still crack up when I remember that day!

[Lady's Human]

Gini,

That's what you get for trying to fit a Moose in a blender!

[gini]

That reminds me of the definition of a "blivet" - it is someone trying to get um...........ten pounds of um..................into a five pound bag.

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

How about adding salt instead of sugar in my applecake, and then serve it to my guests
well, I did, and they did NOT like it...

[Karen]

As well as the breakfast hockey pucks which Lady's Human mentioned, there's the gingerbread story.

When we were kids, my beloved Grandma lived with us for a while after Grandpa died. Well, you know the "too many cooks" thing? Grandma and I liked to cook together, and made gingerbread many times. Then came *that* time. We were out of brown sugar, so made some with molasses and white sugar - not completely successfully, but that wasn't the big problem. We were both doing things too quickly, and as we poured the batter in the pan, I looked at Grandma and said "Did you put the baking powder in?"
"No, she said, "I thought you did!"
"Oh, I said, "I thought YOU did!"
So we measured the baking powder and tried to stir it into the batter already in the pan. Do NOT try this at home, boys and girls! It was awful. It looked like an amateur diorama of some ancient landscape, high in some places, low and gummy in others. We literally didn't gingerbread again for years!