lnikkers52

MY First thanksgiving cooking for my in laws. SO so so so nervous I served pumkin pie my MIL was very nice but she said I have never had pumkin pie with a crust on to . (My first pie ever) Now I know no crust on top

Aussie Quilter

Years ago Nan wanted to make tomato sauce, but didn't didn't think she had enough salt. Came across the street and asked mum if she could borrow 1 POUND of salt. Mum questioned her,but no,that is how much she needed. Mum gave her the salt. The sauce was made. It was as salty as Lot's wife! She brought it over for the chooks. Fortunately dad only gave them half a bottle, but it still killed 2 chooks.

Instead of 1 POUND of salt it should have been 1 OUNCE!

After that, Pop always made sue that HE made the tomato sauce.


(Chooks = Hens and roosters)

MadQuilter

The uncle of an acquaintance was a long-haul trucker and he had a tiny little Chihuahua that accompanied him on his travels. The dog lived in his shirt pocket and was his little buddy. Well, the dog got sick and died. Heartbroken, they wanted to have the dog cremated but they didn't have the money. So they wrapped him up in plastic bags and stuck him in the freezer. Fast forward to the family holiday get-together. Everyone was there and getting ready to set the table when my friend's mother opened the freezer door and was face to face with a bug-eyed frozen dog. She screamed, everyone piled into the kitchen and nobody ate dinner. lol

marthe brault-hunt

We had too many tomatoes from the garden, My husband suggested we make spaghetti sauce. We used the canning pot, a lot of sauce. I added the seasonings, let it simmered and went to work outside. His family makes the spiciest sauce, they called it Diabolo, so he added more spices, especially red pepper. I came back in the kitchen and figured that I should add more spices. no one could eat that sauce.

Ramona Byrd

Another one about my son, the part time chef.

He had read about fried turkeys, so decided that Thanksgiving would be a good time to cook one. He got a nice small turkey, parboiled it and then took it out to put in the bubbling pan of oil over a good fire. One thing is, he forgot to measure the difference between the mass of the turkey plus the amount of boiling fat in the pot. He lowered it into the fat, fat overflowed and started on fire. Huge, old pine tree above caught on fire...

They told me that having several real nice fire fighters for Thanksgiving dinner was quite a good thing since they helped "clean up" some of the other, unburned foods, which were delicious and did not taste like they had been cooked at the local land fill. The turkey itself was not edible.

DebraK

lol! probably happens more than anyone thinks ;-)

DebraK

OH MY Goodness! Great Halloween story ;-)

madamekelly

Ok! OK! You all made me laugh so hard I had to run for the loo! I guess I should 'fess up. Years ago, while dating a nice man I had recently met, I invited him to dinner. I planned to fix Swedish Meatballs over Rice, and a vegetable. Before I go any further, I should tell you that I had never had a 'drink' up to this time. I had dinner on, and just had to make the rice, when he arrived. As he walked in the door, he held up a bag and said, 'I brought some beer for us!" Well I didn't want to be a party pooper, so I had a beer. Then I had another. NEVER get the cook drunk! When I went to serve dinner, The sauce had curdled and the rice was crunchy! I was sure glad I had the vegetables, cause that was all we could eat! The funny part is he married me anyway!

mbunny

We tried to make homemade pumpkin pie from scratch once. Baked the pumpkin then spooned it in the blender in batches. Mom got distracted and left in the spoon. Glass and pumpkin flew all over the kitchen.

Aussie Quilter

Mother in law lived on a farm. Put lunch in the pressure cooker and went outside for a few minutes. Heard a bang and rushed inside. Vent on the pressure cooker had become blocked and lunch was all over the ceiling. Years later you could still see the marks - even though the ceiling had been repainted.