Do you ever have days when you can't cook?

MexicoKaren

MexicoKaren

Joyfully Retired
Do you ever have those days when everything you do just doesn't work, and you wonder if you really know how to cook at all? It started last night when I put the casserole in the oven. Big mistake to use the convection oven instead of the regular bake, and the top of the casserole got too brown and the cheese got hard. This morning, I started to make a banana cream pie. I made some pie crust (big challenge here when it is hot and humid). I could NOT get it to roll out properly, so I finally stuck it in a tart pan instead, and then when I put the foil and pie weights into the pan to bake it, the foil stuck to the crust and pulled half of it back out. OK - I smooshed it back in and let the crust cool while I made the filling. It scorched. I don't think I cooked it long enough and it probably won't set up properly. I cooked the pork tenderloins (too long, I'm afrfaid). And when I went to put them in the refrigerator, I knocked over a BIG bottle of Kahlua, which landed on the tile floor with a huge CRASH and broke into a million pieces. Sticky gooey Kahlua, filled with shards of glass - what a job to clean it up.

Now I am going to take a nap. Company is coming at seven and I still need to sweep the kitchen floor, mop up my messes, and clean the bathroom, but I don't trust myself with a caustic agent like bleach right now, so I'm going to rest first. Arrrgghhh!!!
 
Wow, Karen, I’m sorry to hear that. But it does happen to us all. Especially when flour is involved for me! Sounds like you could use a drink! :biggrin:

Heck, even cheese and a microwave can spell disaster. I set the timer too high to melt and warm this cheese sauce. Who knew that cheese sauce could be so explosive!!! :yum::yum::yum::yum:
 

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Sorry you're having a rough day, Karen. I know exactly what you mean! I hate my tile floor for this very reason! I drop things almost daily. The worst was a very large bottle of balsamic vinegar. It went everywhere, as did the glass from the bottle. If I accidently knock something out of the fridge I cringe automatically until it either bounces or shatters! LOL! Just breathe, have a drink and enjoy your guests! :) And-you can most definately cook sister! :)
 
Thanks for the sympathy, amigos. Keltin, I love that you took a picture of your mess! I should have taken a picture of all that lovely Kahlua all over the floor! Now, half of our guests have called to say that they are sick and can't come...oh well, the ones that are left are such close friends that they won't care if the kitchen is swept. I just hope that they are not planning on any Kahlua later...
 
One does not enter the kitchen without having a day like that once in a while Karen. I think that you are entitled to a drink. That's quite a mess Kelton. What was it, cheese?
 
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Honey, I have shit like that happen all the time. And Keltin, I did the same thing in the microwave yesterday morning, only pure maple syrup was involved!

I think the only thing worse than dropping a bottle of kahlua on a tile floor is dropping a 3# jar of welch's grape jam onto a carpeted floor. Try cleaning broken glass and jam out of wall to wall carpeting:unsure:

Take the pork, add some broth or stock and cook it some more. The broth should soften it considerably. I'd actually make pulled pork out of it, but that might not be the direction you were headed, initially.

Want a cocktail???:kiss:
 
Bless your heart, Karen. Keltin is right, it happens to all of us. My greatest embarrassment happened a couple of years ago at Thanksgiving.

My DD had invited someone from Church that couldn't go home for Thanksgiving. I had put the sweet potato casserole under the broiler to brown the marshmallow topping and forgot about it. After a few minutes, I smelled something burning and it dawned on me that it was the casserole. I opened the oven door and it was black and flaming. I quickly took it out of the oven and put it on top of the stove and put the fire out. It was smoking terribly so I told DD to take it outside fast before it smelled up the whole house, I opened the door for her and there stood her friend with his hand up just getting ready to knock on the door :yum:
 
I have those days as well. I call then "Brown Suiters". Wear a blown suit an no none will know you popped all over yourself.

Dropped jars are a mess for me. No shortcutsi there. If nothing is broken, agents Bear and Liam can be very effective, followed by a light damp mop. lots easier.
 
Thanks everyone - I just need to whip the cream for the pie and everything will be ready. (Oh, I shudder to think what might happen with whipped cream....). Then, bourbon.
 
Happens to me a lot. I was in a rush to do too much all at the same time, and broke a good bottle of Tito's the other day.

Sometimes less is more - like making one good salad instead of several salads and a dip. I'm better off concentrating on doing one thing well, not 2 or 3 things that are done semi well.
 
Awwww, Karen! Sounds like a sucky day!

I mess up my dinners all the time, since I make new things all the time. But I rarely have back-to-back-to-back sucky things like that happen!

The worst spill I've ever had was when I was late for leaving for work, and a giant glass jar of French's mustard broke on my white kitchen floor. Of course, I was dressed in business clothes (skirt, panty hose, spike heels, etc.) and the more I tried to clean it up, the more the bright yellow spread.

(It was like the pink bathtub ring in "Cat in the Hat Comes Back", which has haunted my dreams and conscious mind with anxiety, ever since I was a little girl. I STILL hate that book!)

Anyway, obviously, you are not alone! :-)

Lee
 
Oh Lee, I completely agree with you about Cat in the Hat...used to make me so nervous. Kinda like the movie "Risky Business" that my kids LOVED to watch when they were teenagers, and always drove me crazy (except for Tom Cruise in his underpants - that was cute).

No whipped cream misadventures - it whipped up beautifully, the dinner was great, the pie was wonderful, the bourbon helped.

Thanks, amigos for your kind words of support!! And even pictures!
 
I made a reuben meatloaf that tasted pretty good, but the pics sucked and I was embarrassed to share them.:bonk::ohmy:
I took some over to my little neighbour lady and she asked me what it was, but she enjoyed it.:yum:
It does NOT save well really, don't know why.
After 2 days in the fridge it took on a life of it's own.
Haven't made it since and never will again.
Ugh..

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'tis of my opinion that if a person purports that they've nary a speck of flaw w/in thier kitchen, then they're 1.)full of chit 2.)thier food is enough 2 make a person hide so they ain't gots 2 ingest another crumb 3.)they've an ego that ought promptly be popped via pin-needle 4.)a delictable dinner 4 them would be phish-stix & a cheese single, w/ generic kep-utch & schwebel's/margarine-type item.
as they say, 2 err is 2 human. & they're correct.
 
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'tis of my opinion that if a person purports that they've nary a speck of flaw w/in thier kitchen, then they're 1.)full of chit 2.)thier food is enough 2 make a person hide so they ain't gots 2 ingest another crumb 3.)they've an ego that ought promptly be popped via pin-needle 4.)a delictable dinner 4 them would be phish-stix & a cheese single, w/ generic kep-utch & schwebel's/margarine-type item.
as they say, 2 err is 2 human. & they're correct.
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LOL Luvs.

Just yesterday I dumped a new plastic bubble type box of mini cinnamon powder sugar donuts on the floor which threw itself open and spread sugar ALL over the room!! Hub had gotten 1 before the rest commited suicide!! LOL I shouldn't have them so I am thinking they commited suicide to save me from myself!! And I am sticking to that!!

I have had MANY of those "wanna crawl in a hole/cave" till the black clouds moves on to the next person!!
 
i knocked an unopened bottle of soap onto my linoleum; yep. i glance near my sink quite a few thereafter, &, i'm saying, wtf is that?! here, its cap, unbeknownst 2 me, went waaayyyyy far from that bottle.
took me a sec, then i'm like, 'that's friggin ajax!'
after slight emotion, there was cleaning.
man;
then there was that worcestershire yesterday.......
& be nearby your micro if cooking a marshmallow, & that. learned that as a tot ;)
 
Recently I had a new bottle of concentrated laundry soap fall off the top of the washing machine. It broke open and went all over the place. When I went to get the bottle before it completely emptied I slipped and fell. No serious injuries but it must have been comical to watch me try to get to that bottle and then back onto clean tile. Now I know the meaning of a greased pole. I was sliding all over. What a mess. I usually don't drop things. My kitchen disasters usually are overcooking something sometimes to the point of cremating it. Not too long ago I even left the burner on under my cast iron skillet. Good thing that it was on the lowest BTU one.
 
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