Showing posts with label Cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cooking. Show all posts

Sunday, February 13, 2011

How Not To Broil

2/13/2011 10 Comments
I am a little embarrassed to admit that while I cook a lot I usually do not broil. Last night however, I decided I was going to broil a steak. My boyfriend would have stuck the steak on a cookie sheet which would ruin the cookie sheet, but I have to say it was so much better than what I did. *cringe*

 Hey, I was never taught how to cook. I just improvise and make it work. No serious catastrophes yet. Nothing like If This Is Motherhood has done. I am invincible, or so I thought. I think the worst thing I ever did was when I was attempting to make lasagna. I didn't think about the possibility that the pan would overflow and my oven caught on fire. So, I ,being my genius self, got the fire extinguisher and spayed my wonderful lasagna and the inside of my oven. It was tough to clean up and two trays of lasagna were destroyed but I didn't burn them.

He had brought home a delicious looking steak and I put it in a glass cassarole dish on the top rack of the oven. That is what you are supposed to do right? All was going well and then I got distracted. I realized and rushed to the oven thinking I must have burned the steak. He came out and said the steak looks great and we bent down to take a look. He then proceeded to flip the steak and that is when it all went wrong.

He lifted the steak up with a fork and the whole dish burst into pieces. There was flying pieces of glass throughout the whole kitchen. It was all over the bottom of my oven and covered the floor. With this new found knowledge I stress you, DO NOT BROIL IN A GLASS PAN. It was not a pretty site, and it took hours to clean up!!!!


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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Another Cringe Factor- I Burned the Damn Ham!!!

12/26/2010 1 Comments
I have a tradition of cooking a ham for Christmas. It usually turns out really god but, this year not so much. I put it in and left it there for four hours. No, this was not a whole ham. It was a spiral cut precooked ham. What was I thinking? I have never cooked a ham for four long hours. It smelled good and there wasn't any smoke, but the ham was black. I was so upset.

This was a minor infraction on my holiday but it seemed so important to me!! I wanted a new ham. I sat down and moped. Yes, I moped and was close to tears over a ham. I had anticipated it to be a nice dinner. It was now ruined!! I know, I am so dramatic right? Well, my boyfriend did the sweetest thing. He doesn't celebrate Christmas so it wouldn't have mattered to him but because he saw how important it was to me he had to take action.

My boyfriend and roommate decided they would go buy another ham. It was around 7 pm on Christmas Eve. While he went to the store the boys had insisted on having some ham. I cringe to say that I fed them some of the burned ham. They thought it was fine. The girls wanted nothing to do with it and I can't blame them.  They are troopers!!! He said he went to three different stores and they were all closed. Finally he caught one that was open and bought the last ham they had. Yippeee!!!!! I recooked it and it turned  out perfect. All of that and the kids were too excited to eat but us adults had a wonderful meal. LOL.....

I am grateful that they would go out that late on Christmas Eve and buy a new ham for me. It was wonderful!!!


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