Step Away From the Kitchen
Stupid things I do, food May 26th, 2009Anyone who knows me knows I can’t cook. Never really tried. Didn’t get the gene.
But after enjoying a delicious meal at the home of Kim and Bryan, the bloggers I met last weekend, I decided I might like to try my hand at it. You see, Kim made homemade manicotti, including making the pasta shells from scratch!
I thought it would make a nice birthday dinner for my husband, Dave, and so I slaved away in the kitchen making my own pasta. You do it by pouring a thin mixture of eggs, flour, water and oil in a saute pan and swirling it around like you would a crepe. When the top dries, you simply pop it out on a plate and instant pasta!
I made 15 of those beauties and confidently went on to make the cheese filling and meatballs. Didn’t they turn out nice? Thanks for the recipe, Kim!
I basked in the glow of knowing that if I apply myself, I can pull off a decent meal and no one even has to go to the emergency room to get their stomach pumped.
And then God said "Get over yourself. It was a fluke."
The very next day I made a grilled cheese sandwich in the brand new saute pan I’d bought to make the pasta in, but didn’t wind up using.
When the pan heated, I started smelling something. I chastised my husband for not cleaning some burned food off the stovetop.
But the smell wasn’t exactly burnt food. Oh, no.
It was the smell of stupid.
We had a good chuckle over it, took this picture for proof a moron lives here and I ate my grilled cheese sandwich.
The very next day I was making an omelette in the very same pan.
Hmmmm. What’s that smell?
That’d be the smell of short term memory loss.
You’ll be happy to know I finally took the paper off the bottom of the pan and my house doesn’t smell like burning barcode anymore.
Is this universe’s way of telling me to get the hell out of the kitchen and leave it to the experts?
Yeah, I thought so.
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May 26th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Oh no! At least you do have the “stick to itness gene.” You didn’t give up after burning the paper once.
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May 26th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Mmmmm — I love the smell of burning barcode in the morning.
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May 26th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
I think that the paper on the bottom serves a very important purpose. If you smell that burning, you’ll be sure not to burn the actual food. That manicotti looks great by the way!
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May 26th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Once upon a time, the post office decided to start making self-stick stamps.But I didn’t get the memo.
I took a whole roll back to the post office complaining that they weren’t properly perforated.
Duh-oh. All those years in school do not guarantee practical smarts.
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May 26th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Looks like the “Ultra Glide” feature needed to be put on BOTH sides of the pan… so the label can slip off easily too.
I’ll venture a guess and assume you eat out a lot? Or is Dave the chef?
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May 26th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
OK, that’s pretty impressive.
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May 26th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Hmmm. It seems you also didn’t get the whole dish-washing gene, either! hahaha!
Kathy, did you remove the pastic cover on your lamp shades?
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May 26th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
I pretend I have the cooking gene. I have yet to meet a pan I can not destroy. I even took out a cast iron skillet. Now I can bake up a storm, but don’t ask me to cook something on top of the stove. The house will fill with smoke.
Suggestion to you. Get a crock pot. It is hard to get it wrong.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:32 am
Nahhh that’s not stoopid! Stoopid would be if you folded the paper into the omelet.
Gee honey, this is a chewy omelet!
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May 27th, 2009 at 1:20 am
so that’s what stupid smells like!
)
good to know. ;o)
that really made me giggle…thanks!
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May 27th, 2009 at 3:42 am
Oh well, the food turned out good and that’s what’s important AND you discovered before it caught on fire! Give yourself some credit. I think some people are meant to be in kitchens and others of us just aren’t. I am not a kitchen person either.
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May 27th, 2009 at 4:59 am
Joe — I do, don’t I? BTW, your last blog post title would have been good for my post, too!
feefifoto — LOL. I’m so happy it didn’t burn long enough to melt. The outside of the label was sort of plasticy. Maybe they put that there to protect the stupid. If it were just paper, I would have set my kitchen on fire.
Bryan — Yes, yes it does. I’m so happy the way the manicotti turned out. It was DEE-lish! The meatballs weren’t perfect like Kim’s were. I think I need that recipe too.
The Mother — OMG that’s hilarious! And so something I would do. Thank you for sharing that. We are sisters of the stupid.
Maureen — Yes, I blame the manufacturer. They should have put the label in the pan, don’t you think? I hate to admit it, but we do eat more prepared foods or takeout than stuff like this. But I’m turning over a new leaf. I’m making my first ever lasagna this week. Call the fire department!
Stephanie Barr — You mean my manicotti or the vastness of my stupidity?
Barb WillThink4Wine — Right, I almost never stick a pan in the dishwasher if it can be lightly wiped out with a wet paper towel. Is that bad? Believe it or not, I do remove the plastic from our lampshades. Score one for me!
Phunnieone — You sound like me. Ruining a cast iron skillet is hard to do. I tip my hat to you.
Merrill Guice — I have yet to cook foreign objects in my food, but there is always a first time. You’ll hear about it here.
Puglette — I giggled, too. The first time.
Karen — You’re right. I at least knew something was wrong. But it does kind of scare me that I did it not once, but twice. I think it’s safe to say I’m not a kitchen person either.
May 27th, 2009 at 5:20 am
Kathy, thank you for making me look smart. I’ve done some pretty stupid things in my time. I needed a good laugh today.
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May 27th, 2009 at 6:01 am
Not once but twice? I’m not gonna say anything – really, and I know you can’t hear me laughing
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May 27th, 2009 at 6:01 am
My mouth is watering just looking at the first picture, must make some myself
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May 27th, 2009 at 6:11 am
This reminds me of the time our toaster oven broke and we got our new one. My mom had to take the cardboard out and set it up and everything. I made something then to see if it worked okay. It smelled funny, but we ignored it cause it said it would smell weird the first few times.
Turns out there was a piece of cardboard still in the back.
Oh, and I love cooking!
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May 27th, 2009 at 6:15 am
I’ve been making manicotti that same way for years. I love how easy it is to make the crepe/pasta. The recipe came from a cookbook I was given as a wedding gift 31 years ago! I know you can do anything you set your mind to including taking the paper out of the pan before cooking.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Burning barcode, LOLOLOL! I know that smell!
But I think I achieved it in a different way. I don’t want to remember what it was.
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May 27th, 2009 at 7:15 am
I used to think I could cook too. Until I met someone who could actually do it better. Now I don’t even bother…maybe the occasional chocolate chip cookie…but nothing so taxing as an entire meal.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:20 am
I never knew cooking was so hard! At our house, it seems so easy. From what I observe, you just take out a box from the freezer, put it into the microwave, press a few buttons, and voila! A perfectly prepared meal in under 5 minutes.
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May 27th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Your manicotti looks amazing. I don’t think you give yourself enough credit. I have a similar pan and have never been able to get the paper out.
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May 27th, 2009 at 8:43 am
You are lucky, I would have thought it would have caught fire. Believe me I have done some stupid things a time or two.
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May 27th, 2009 at 8:57 am
YAY! The manicotti looks GORGEOUS, Kathy– way to go. My GOSH, you are now driving places, and touching things and now COOKING STUFF…
(We’re going to ignore the conflagration of your sautee pan… You HAD to do something like that because otherwise the smell of success would be too heady for us… We need the smell of humor… and burnt paper.)
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May 27th, 2009 at 9:11 am
You just experienced the first trying to cook syndrome,lol. Now you will graduate to learning to be a family cook..then an outdoor cook…then if you lucky be the year 2025 you won’t need to use anything you learned, we will use simulators.LOL
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May 27th, 2009 at 10:35 am
You only *thought* that was the smell of burning barcode.
It wasn’t.
It was the sound of the universe righting itself.
BTW, my husband routinely eats the stickers off of fresh fruit… that he’s already washed… and cut up. He’ll just stick out his tongue and remove it. Oops… again.
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May 27th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Oh Kathy! That made me really laugh. Mainly because I don’t know who’s worse with the label thing. You or Mo! We still have pans and bowls that Mo has cooked with that I now can’t get the stupid labels off, they are burned into the surface forever! Though I must add that they are usually small and on the side ;O)
As far as the meal is concerned, it looks delicious – Well done! Oh and a belated happy birthday to Dave!
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May 27th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
You crack me up. I’m never coming to your house for any meal. We’ll take you out. Bwahahahahahaha.
Have a terrific day.
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May 27th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Okay, now we know TWO things you & I can’t do together. No road trips, no cooking. We would get lost & then burn down the house.
You are so much like me! I think it has more to do with being all not involved with dumb details than anything else.
But, I think for our own safety, we can only be ‘net friends.
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May 27th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
That is way too funny. Sometimes the simplest things give us the hardest time. My mom bought a Keurig coffee maker (cause I have one and she loved it) but she was having problems working it. Even though she turned it on, the computer screen kept saying the same thing. After getting a return authorization from Keurig, she realized that there was a little clear plastic pre-printed film-like cover on the screen. When she peeled it off, she could see the screen underneath and it was working fine. Scary huh?
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May 27th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Hahahaha! That’s totally something I’d do. I have a reputation for burning toast…every freakin time.
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May 27th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Are you going to share that recipe??? Looks deeeeelicious! (And much tastier than what I’ve been up to this week!)
Viveca
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May 27th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
As much as I’d like to mock your ineptitude, I myself am guilty of throwing a frozen pizza in the oven with the cardboard tray still attached. Once it burst into flames, I realized my error.
Of course, this has happened about four times in my life . . . so there’s your short term memory issues again.
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May 27th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Chris Casey — You know by now that I provide a service here. Anytime you wanna feel like a Rhodes scholar, just swing by and read me.
Grace — Hmmm, I thought I hear someone giggling earlier today. Now I know where it came from.
Karen at Blazing Minds — There is something so wonderful about fresh pasta. Tasting how good it came out makes me want to make everything fresh. As long as I don’t burn my house down.
Regan — I remember hearing about that near disaster. Do you think we have the firestarter gene in our family? Maybe you can break the cycle!
Data Entry Services — I never would have thought it was so easy. I literally stood there, rejoicing aloud that I was actually making my own pasta! I’m a believer now.
Jenny Penny — I’ll never forget the smell now. Very distinctive. And I’ll also learn not to accuse my husband of messing things up in the kitchen. I should really just assume it’s me.
Henson — I’m like you. I always marvel at the cooking skills of others. I’m in awe of how easy they make it look. While I enjoyed making the manicotti, it did take a long time and I can’t believe people make their own meals day after day.
Daisy the Curly Cat — It IS hard! But it gave me confidence that I can do something like make my own pasta. Yes, more often than not, we eat something that came out of the magic microwave machine. You are a good observer, Daisy. Maybe Harley will teach you how to be a spy cat!
Anne — Thank you. We quite liked it! And doesn’t everyone take pictures of the food they make?
grannyann — If I’d left it on a little longer, it would have. The paper got kind of burned. Yes, twice burnt.
Jenn Thorson — I know! Look at me! Doing all kinds of new things. There’s no stopping me now. Next up? I learn to sew!
AuntieE — Oh! Oh! I was the grill cook at our Memorial Day picnic. I almost punched my brother-in-law when he came over and smashed the burgers flat on the grill. No, no! You wait for the juice to run clear and you certainly do not smash them! I am a Grill Master.
Midwest Mom — Yes, it was. The universe is smart enough to realize I don’t belong in the kitchen. Although I think it’s patient enough to wait for me not to do great things followed up with stupid things. My husband eats fruit labels, too. Long-standing problem. I can’t help him.
Babs Beetle — I was really lucky that the label peeled off OK. At first it came off in tiny little pieces. But I managed to grab another end of it and then it all fell off. The meal was wonderful and Dave had a nice birthday. Thank you.
Comedy Plus — I will take you up on that. Probably safer for everyone and no one has to go to the hospital. Good deal!
Wendy — LMAO! You hit the nail on the head. I think my problem is I’m annoyed with all the little details and it’s too much thinking and responsibility. I don’t know. Maybe if I didn’t have a job that exhausted me so much, I could get excited about cooking a fab meal every night.
Preston — Oh, that’s so cute about your mom and the label. So something I would do. Tell her that it’s OK. We can’t all be geniuses in the kitchen.
Sami — Why doesn’t someone come up with a toaster that you don’t have to watch? Also, I would like one that has toast settings that it can save from person to person, like the seat adjustments in a car. Then I could just press a button for Kathy and get my kind of toast. My husband could press a Dave button. Is there such a glorious toaster out there?
Viveca — Yes, I’ll post the recipe in a comment following these.
Chris — Oh, I’ve totally done that. And it’s OK if you keep doing it. I give you permission to be forgetful. Just don’t burn your house down, please.
May 27th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Here’s the manicotti recipe I got from Kim:
Manicotti Shells
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups of water
1 TBSP of oil (can be olive or just plain old vegetable oil, doesn’t matter)
1 c of flour
Dash of salt
Combine these in a bowl and whisk thoroughly into a thin batter.
Use a small non-stick frying pan on med-high. Spray it with Pam the first time, then you don’t have to spray it again because of the oil in the batter. Take about 2/3 of a ladleful of batter, put it in the pan, then pick the pan up and swirl it around so it thinly coats the bottom. Put the pan down and watch it; when it looks all dry on top, its done. Pick up the pan, turn it over, and bang it on a cooling rack or plate and the shell will drop out. I use a cooling rack but two plates work just as well; pop them out on one plate and as the shells cool, pick them up and stack them on the other plate.
Filling
1 15 oz container ricotta cheese
1 2c bag of shredded mozzarella cheese (Save a handful of this to scatter on top)
Parmesan cheese (just a couple of Tablespoons)
1 tsp or so of garlic powder
sprinkle of pepper
couple pinches of parsley
Combine these in a bowl, place a forkful down the center of each shell and fold the sides over. Place in an oblong pan that you have put a layer of sauce in. Layer more sauce on top and finish with the reserved cheese. Bake at 350 until hot and bubbly.
May 27th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
My dad is a great cook, but you should have seen the (ahem!) “meatballs” he made last week — 3/4 meat, 1/4 charcoal, and considerably less than round. Yours look gorgeous!
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May 27th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
You and my daughter Sherry (age 42) must be related when she cooks everyone holds their breathe.
Looks great..
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May 27th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
HAHAHAHAHA! ‘It’s the smell of stupid’!! ROFL!
I love it – especially as it’s the sort of thing I’d do!
May 27th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Oh, that is so funny. Just ’cause I burned the bacon this morning.
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May 27th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
I can’t say I’ve done that, but I have burned grilled cheese sandwiches…and many other things. And I wonder how come my sister-in-law hasn’t made that manacotti for me? Maybe because I can’t spell it?
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May 28th, 2009 at 5:14 am
Ladybugg — Yeah, but I bet there wasn’t a single one left over! Mine were just OK. I picked a random meatball recipe off the web. I need to find a new one.
Dorothy Stahlnecker — My husband asked if I was sure I wanted to make it. I wondered if he was being kind or if he was worried how it would turn out.
Jay — It smells like stupid a lot in my house. You get used to it.
Sherry at EX Marks the Spot — Oh, man. You had bacon? Lucky girl.
Lisa (Johnny’s Mommy) — I haven’t been able to spell it correctly since I wrote this. I think you need to put in a special request to Kim to make it for you. Tell her to make the fresh bread, too. It’s part of the package.
May 28th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Ya know, you could probably sue Revere for negligence…I mean, something like “Remove label before making grilled cheese sandwiches” coulda saved you a lot of grief. What’s the corporate world coming to, anyway?!
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May 28th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Woo! You “take the cake.” Bwahahahahahah!!!!
Your pasta looks FAB, dahlink! I’ll have to try it!
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May 28th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
I think you and I might be related. We BOTH get lost all the time and we BOTH have serious issues in the kitchen!
the term “burning barcode” made me laugh out loud.
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May 28th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
hi Kathy,
As always, you crack me up!
I’ve never thought it was necessary to wash new dishes or pots and pans. Then once I got a new wok and made stir-fry. The stir-fry tasted like motor oil. I learned that with new pans, it’s important to wash them first (at least woks), and now I know to check the bottoms for labels as well.
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May 28th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Both.
May 28th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
The following food I can cook:
toast, spaghetti, eggs, and protein milkshake (I know – I can’t cook that).
That’s it!
May 28th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
I noticed in Coping the Recipe, that the sauce directions were left out – Keeping that a secret eh?
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May 28th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
I’m certain of it now. If/when we meet, we’re going OUT for dinner!!
; )
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May 29th, 2009 at 4:34 am
earthtoholly — Yeah, but then when other people read the warning, they’ll say “Who’s the idiot who made this a requirement?”
Crabby Blogging Lady — It was/is FAB! Had a bunch leftover. Making those tonight.
meleah rebeccah — Yeah, but I seem to recall a post you wrote about a very good meal you made once, right? Oh, wait. But there was an “incident” I think. Yep, we’re too peas in a pod.
Trade Show Guru Steve — My problem is that because the pan was no stick, I just used a paper towel to wipe it out, so I never did see the bottom of the pan until it was too late. Yes, check for labels. See what a service I provide here?
Stephanie Barr — Thanks. I think
Levis — Hey, at least you’ll never starve. That’s all that matters.
Beamer — Busted! The sauce was store-bought (Original Ragu). I’m not sure I’m insane enough to try my hand at homemade tomato sauce.
Ferd — And everyone will be that much happier!
May 29th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I commend you for making all of that from scratch. I don’t have the gene either. Last summer, I checked out a bunch of cook books from the library and pretended to be a naturally warm cooking type. I made huge pots of wintery soup in the heat of summer and packed a recipe box with index cards. Paula Deen was my hero, teaching me to make beef stroganoff with real steak. A year later, and I’m over it and onto the dinner kits that come in a box with meat and all. I do throw in a few of last year’s learnings such as meatloaf and Trisha Yearwood’s broccoli casserole. Like others have said, your pan mishap had to happen for the survival of the junk drawer!
May 29th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Ok, that’s just hilarious. I can see it happening once but TWICE? I thought my short term memory was awful.
May 29th, 2009 at 9:38 am
I once ruined box brownies…how you may ask. Well apparently 1/3 cup veg oil is much different from 1 cup veg oil. I thought the mix looked a little “wet” but proceeded to cook anyway. Funny how it never really solidified….
May 29th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Oh dang that’s funny. I got to hand it to you – your a nut, and I mean that as the truest compliment
from a fellow nut. How do we do the things we do???
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May 29th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
You made HOMEMADE pasta? I burn grilled cheese, try a different pancake recipe EVERY SINGLE TIME and have to overcook chicken to make sure it’s cooked all the way through. Impressed doesn’t even begin to cover it.
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May 30th, 2009 at 5:49 am
misspiggytoes — I go through phases like that, too. I find one or two things I can make well and that’s about it. I’ve never been one to be adventurous in the kitchen. Just not my thing. We have to admire ourselves for even trying, though. BTW, you can never go wrong with a good meatloaf.
April — Yes, twice. I’m not proud of it.
Erin — Oh, yuck! I wish measurements weren’t so, you know, important. Did you eat them anyway?
diver daisy — Thank you! I do take that as a compliment. I think I’m this way to give my husband comic relief.
Mama Bub — Consider trying it once. It’s very liberating!
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I don’t think I’ve done that one… but cooking a roast with the little pieces of plastic & paper or whatever they are.. that I might have experience with. Maybe.
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June 4th, 2009 at 10:09 am
OMG! I laughed soooooo hard, and was trying even harder not to laugh out loud, I’m at work!!! I was laughing because I made banana pudding (the quick and easy kind) last night, and forgot the pudding, and started whipping up chocolate chip cookies this morning before work, and didn’t have ANY flour. And I’m a good cook!
June 6th, 2009 at 10:38 am
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June 7th, 2009 at 7:34 am
lolz this reminds me of my first day in kitchen, i was 15 by that time and i really didnt know how to boil eggs or rice, not even the basics. I decided to make cinnamon rolls I let them proof on a tray before baking, covered them with a plastic wrapping sheet to keep off drying. It was 2 in the morning, tired, oven at 365, I put the tray into the oven. 20 fragrant minutes passed, I pull them out just to look at a strange spider-web-like netting over the buns. Later i realized, I left the plastic wrap on when I put the buns in the oven. I sliced off the top, have a bit of the bottom… oh so good… so sad to find a dozen cinnamon buns go in the garbage.
June 20th, 2009 at 4:49 am
UPDATE: THE PAN IS DEAD! My husband used the pan to fry up a burger last week and after he soaked it afterwards, I couldn’t get the residue off. Even after washing and scrubbing. We think the pan was defective from the start. It’s not me!
flit — You mean from the roast packaging? Hmmm, tasty. Not!
LaTonya — Oh, you and I are cut from the same cloth. There was that time I made tuna casserole without any tuna. D’oh! Don’t worry. No one has to know about your mistake. Just you, me and everybody who reads this blog.
Katty — I love that you still salvaged what you could. Exactly what I would do. No sense wasting perfectly delicious plastic-wrapped buns! Oh, and is there no more wonderful aroma than cinnamon buns baking in the oven?
June 30th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Thank you! This is a shout out to all of the girls who did not get the cooking gene, but we try anyways, right? I have one better for you. When I first started cooking, or I mean, tried to start cooking, I wanted to heat something up in the oven so I turned it on and put it in. A little while later I started smelling rubber. I looked in the oven and my PLASTIC bowl had melted. Yes, plastic does not belong in the oven and I guess this is how I found out! If I had a dime for every one of my blond moments I would be rich!! I loved this post. Its nice to know there are others like me in the world. You rock!!
July 16th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Wedding favors girl — I feel your pain. So would my brother in law, who once heated up a glass carafe of coffee on the stove top and the plastic handle melted right down into the coils. D’oh! p.s. Please don’t burn your house down and I’ll try not to as well.
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:39 am
we are in the same shoes, i don’t have the “cooking genes”.
but then congratulations that you were able to cook a decent recipe.
i am just hesitant about that “plastic” that you used. is it safe? don’t they leave a smell in your cooked food?
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November 17th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Haha this totally sounds like something I would do! My wife won’t let me near the kitchen…. Lets see the last time I tried to make coffee I ran the entire thing without any coffee grounds so we had a nice hot pot of water! I usually set paper and things on a hot stove, the smell alerts up soon enough! Good to know I’m not the only won, hey it’s just who we are!
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November 25th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
My wife didn’t get the “cooking gene” either. But don’t worry, she knows it and it’s OK with her. Because, well, I’m not that bad of a cook.
Funny thing is she did the same thing with the label – TWICE too! No offense, but I really didn’t think anyone else would ever repeat that.
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November 30th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Oh man! That cracked me up! Nice post!
I’m so glad my mom trained us in the kitchen! =D
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January 13th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
I also love how easy it is to make the crepe/pasta.
I’ve been making manicotti that same way for years.