Dishes gone wrong

This from Business First:

http://louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2009/08/17/focus7.html

Anybody have any others to add? Either those you created or those you've experienced.

Deb

I decided to make Paula Dean's "Tomatillo Enchiladas" one day. You have to simmer the tomatillos in a mixture of spices and chicken broth and then put it in the blender to puree it. However, I did not let the sauce cool enough before putting it in the blender and when I hit the button..even holding the top which is VERY hard to get off the blender, the thing exploded and a rush of hot green goo erupted out all over the kitchen and myself. I screamed and my husband came running in. He had to help me get the hot stuff off of me. That was 3 years ago. Every once in a while you'll find some little green speck in the kitchen from it. The worst part is it went down in the crack between the stoven and cabinet. never again.

I made hot browns during the holidays a few years ago at my mom's house. After assembling the individual browns and topping them with mornay, they went into the broiler to brown a little. As I was pulling them out, two fell over and spilled boiling/broiling mornay sauce on my hand and arm - very very bad burns, and that cheesey/roux sauce just would not come off.

We salvaged the meal, but I was in serious pain for days.

This from Business First:

http://louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2009/08/17/focus7.html

Anybody have any others to add? Either those you created or those you've experienced.

Deb

I ran a blackened swordfish with raspberry coulis once....looked like burnt toast and jelly.

My father once attempted a pizza in the oven. Only, he set it on broil. You can guess what happened. Charcoal briquette.

- edit because I can't spell on Monday.

Hey, it's all I got.

When I was in High School, I came home one afternoon to the my sister propping the doors wide open and smoke billowing out of the house. Upon rushing into the house to see if there was anything left, I found she tried to bake a cake on broil. We all still laugh about it.

Two things -

I made 2 Chocolate Chip Pecan pies for a family reunion at my great aunt Ethel's house. At the time I was strictly dieting and did not taste the filling. It didn't look quite right, but everyone said it would be fine. At the reunion, I decided to treat myself to a sliver. One pie was already gone and the other was over 1/2 gone. I took a bite and I had put salt instead of sugar in the pies. She kept a gallon pickle jar full of salt on the counter...

First time I made biscuits (8 years old), they were like hockey pucks.

my ex's mom dieted a lot and was always trying out diet-y recipes. she once made a batch of paula deen's peanut butter cookies using splenda. i think they were for diabetics because the recipe actually called for splenda, not sugar. the texture and flavor of the cookies reminded us all of a doggy biscuit and that's exactly who wound up eating the rest of the cookies!

Hey Michelle - I did the same thing only with a trifle. Thankfully I tasted the filling just to get some of the yumminess and I let out a big scream (with a word I won't put here). My husband came running down the stairs and the off he went to buy more limoncello and mascarpone. It ended up being the most expensive dessert I've ever made (make that remade).

My brother and I once cooked a whole meal at My Uncles house using sugar as salt. My aunt was keeping sugar in this sicilian salt glass jar for some reason and we used it on everything. I'll never forget my Dad commenting on how sweet the fish was. We were all passing the salt shaker and did think it was strange but we really didn't put it all together untill the following morning when we saw my uncle putting "salt" in his coffee.

My sister once baked a whole batch of chocolate chip cookies without butter. They were horrible, and we wouldn't let her bake cookies for a really long time. She's come a long way, though, and is now a pretty decent home chef.

Try a pumpkin pie without sugar.... there is not enough whipped cream in the world to cover that up. We still give my wife grief about that.

Three Thanksgivings in a row my brother left the giblet bag in the turkey- the taste of waxed paper and liver cannot be described. He now makes ham.

i was part of a 'potluck' supper with people i used to work with (and for). all in attendance were bonafide foodies and even the chef (who is amazing) prepared some dishes for us on a burner right in the center of the family-style table.
i tried preparing a a dish that id never made before... artichokes braised in white wine with garlic, shallots, and chopped prosciutto. the chokes were way too small and ended up being not much more than inedible leaves and thistle.
as a safety net, i decided to make some olive oil/almond muffins that id made 100 times before. but i made a BAD decision. i used some amaretto to enhance the almond flavor (which id never done before) without adjusting any of the wet ingredients or lipids and ended up with the driest, crumbliest things id ever seen.
REALLY wish id known before people started peeling them from their wrappers.

bright side was there was plenty of wine, everything smelled really good, and we all had something to laugh about.

Three Thanksgivings in a row my brother left the giblet bag in the turkey- the taste of waxed paper and liver cannot be described. He now makes ham.

Quite the fast learner, isn't he?

Deb