How often do you mess it up?

[tim]

After 'warming up' the cooked Papads for friends, last week, & leaving them in the hot oven for 10 mins - what next?

Easy! Doing a homemade Wiltshire Plait from scratch today - so engrossed in making the Sausagemeat & the plaiting that I forgot the Cheese & Apple.

Oh, well - just cooked it beside the sausage roll!!

[tim]

[1066]

Yup I've left things in the oven - turned off - and found a day or 2 later, usually something along the lines of bread etc

As to really messing things up check out my cauliflower soup recipie  :-X

[kt.]

My first attempt cooking jam this year... I burnt 4lbs of strawberries and sugar.  Had to bin the lot.  Luckily the 2nd batch was ok.

[Borlotti]

My Victoria Sponge is not a sponge but a biscuit.  I can cook fine when it is only the two of us, but if I have to cook for other people panic and it goes wrong, think it is because they talk to me whilst I am cooking and can't be doing with it.  I can do a good salad.  ;D ;D ;D

[chriscross1966]

Not often these days, but I made an absolute mess of a stuffed italian crookneck squash earlier this year.... too dry by a long way, squash undercooked and to top it all the neck end of the squash was bitter.... thankfully the other end was edible but it wasn't one to bother with keeping the recipe..... 

chrisc

[grawrc]

Put the beans on to cook (having soaked them overnight) and then totally forgot all about them. The smell of burning alerted me later .......

[jennym]

I can't cook fish fingers. Dunno why, theres just something about them. We don't have them that often.
Was recently embarrassed to learn that eldest son now in Australia, and youngest son (school age) had a discussion on the way I cook and present fish fingers. it went something like, "Does Mum still serve em up burnt side down so you can't see the burnt bit?"
Afraid youngest son said "Yes"

[Sparkly]

There are plenty of things I can't do, but my cooking is normally one of my high points. One thing I can tell you not to try is to substitute strawberry yoghurt for plain yoghurt in a curry. No, although you can put fruit in curries and get them tasting good this does not work!  ;D

[saddad]

Most of the time....  ;D

[Ninnyscrops.]

At least once a year for the past 32 years!

The most simple thing like a rice pudding - I could start a new line in paving slabs!

Why can I not cook one?

Dearest OH said his grandma could make such a creamy one with the brown bits on the top (his favourite), I've tried making it with added cream, or less milk and more butter, longer and lower temperature.

There's got to be a failsafe recipe out there somewhere ???

Linda

[landimad]

We would not all be human without our faults now would we.
As I used to be a chef for various people I got things wrong some if not all the time.
I must say that cooking is a trial and error some of the time and luck the rest of the time.
To try is to suck seed ;D

[Flighty]

Often enough, and usually with the simplest of things!  :-[