Thanksgiving "OOPS", come share your cooking stories!

[manders13]

Not just a "oh dinner went well" story,

did you forget to mash the potato's?

burn the turkey?





Last year, was our "first" thanksgiving together. I am always away on holidays with my grandma and DH never goes.

He was in charge of sides, and i was in charge of dessert and the turkey...



Turkey went well! i was happy for never cooking in my life


I went to serve the pumpkin pie....


and my mom walks in and says... "you expect us to eat this?"

Well why not???


"ummm dear, you were suppose to bake it!"


I had NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO idea that you had to bake pumpkin pies that you get from Sara lee....


Oops

[jen276here]

lol Manders!! Guess you didn't read the box!! BWAHAHAA!!!

My story is just as bad though - lol

My first turkey dinner prep was going well - turkey had been in the oven for a whiles and I was working on the potatoes when my mom comes and and asked what I was doing with neck and stuff. I'm confused now because I don't remember seeing any neck or whatnots which is what I tell her. She asked where I put the bag I pulled out. I'm really confused because I didn't pull any bag out! So she asks if I stuffed it and I said 'absolutely' she said did I clean out the inside? I said 'yes, I sprayed it for ever with the hose thingy on the faucet'. She then asks if I ever put my hand in that bird??? Well, of course I didn't 'cause - ew! So we pull the bird out of the oven and she finds out that not only did I not stuff both ends of the bird (never knew you were supposed to) but I never pulled out the neck or the bag! They had been baking in the turkey for several hours like that! EW!!!

[SyLph211]

For the first couple of years I was not able to visit the family for thanksgiving on thanksgiving day so hubs and I just did a little something at home. We didn't do a traditional thanksgiving dinner but instead did thanksgiving turkey chili. I was deep into cooking my homemade thanksgiving chili when I noticed that cinnamon was strong in the kitchen. I had put cinnamon into the pumpkin cheesecake before baking so wasn't sure why I was smelling it so strong. We found out why when we sat down to eat the chili. Instead of the chili powder I had poured cinnamon into the chili. To this day my husband loves to tell everyone about the cinnamon chili I made him for thanksgiving dinner. We do traditional dinners now since having kids. Thank goodness my mom accepts phone calls early in the AM in case I have a question.

[CW&M Mom]

My grandmother was over with us for Thanksgiving at my parents house. My Grandmother was in the early stages of alzheimers. She was washing her hands in the kitchen sink...problem was that the mashed potatoes my mom had just mashed in the stock pot...were also in the same sink...now covered in soapy water.

My mother (who sometimes we wonder about)...thought she could just dump all the sudsy water out but alas (thank goodness) they ended up splatting all over the kitchen floor...with all of us looking shocked at my mother that she thought we would actually eat sudsy mashed potatoes.

[kval07]

Ooh, I like this thread, lol. I have never cooked any holiday dinner, but you all make me feel better knowing I'm not the only one to screw up. I just know when I'm in charge one day, it'll be a doozy!

[XUfan]

I love this!!

OK...in my early days of cooking, I did the "what bag??" thing too! My mom thought it was soooooo funny!!! I didn't stuff the bird, though, but I did leave in all the yucky "parts" that they leave in there.

My kids will tell you that the entire time they were growing up, we never had dinner rolls for Thanksgiving. We always bought them...but I always put them in the oven "just for a few minutes" and then promptly forgot about them! I'd be busy getting everything else to the table, or cutting the turkey, or chasing after kids who needed less sugar and more manners. By the time I'd remember them...black hunks of charcoal were all that was left.

Last year, my BIL and SIL invited us over. My BIL had tried really hard to help get their house ready for the feast. So, on Thanksgiving morning, he let my SIL sleep a little longer, and he "took care" of the apple pie. It was a frozen one, and all he had to do was bake it. Apparently, the directions say to take the pie from the box and the covering, and place the pie on a baking sheet. He took this to mean EVERYTHING. So...he removed this frozen apple pie from the aluminum pie pan and put it on a baking sheet and bake it. It was about 3/4 of an inch high, and about 16 inches across when it was done!!! It looked like a big apple pancake! Oh...and he served it too!!!

[couponfanatic]

In my family the ONE thing we don't make from scratch is the rolls. Beacuse we like Brown N Serve Rolls.
But we call them Black N Serve because EVERY year we forget about them and when we're sitting down to eat some one goes..What's that smell? Someone yells The Rolls! and runs for the kitchen. Most years they're only a little black. But we have made charcoal briquettes out of them if no one's sniffer works that year.

Not Thanksgiving, but once my parents were canning corn. They left it to cook too long and burnt it. Really burnt it. Black sooty stuff all over the kitchen. From that day on, when my aunt ever saw a picture of corn in a magazine, she'd color it black with a crayon and mail it to them. No Note, no return address, just black corn. She knew we'd know who it was from.

[XUfan]

In my family the ONE thing we don't make from scratch is the rolls. Beacuse we like Brown N Serve Rolls.
But we call them Black N Serve because EVERY year we forget about them and when we're sitting down to eat some one goes..What's that smell? Someone yells The Rolls! and runs for the kitchen. Most years they're only a little black. But we have made charcoal briquettes out of them if no one's sniffer works that year.

LOL!! those are the same rolls I burned every year!!

[cintinative]

This thread is cracking me up! We are hosting Thanksgiving this year so I am really hoping we can pull this off without a major error. =)

I don't have any Thanksgiving day stories, but once I made a cake for my son's 1st birthday. The instructions said to stack two sheet cakes and cut it into blocks (it was supposed to look like alphabet blocks). Well, I was thinking they meant bakery sheet cake sized, so I made two half sheets thinking that was way too much cake. Unfortunately, it wasn't tall enough when we did that, so I added another half sheet. Then, we needed six batches of icing using 2 lbs of powdered sugar and a pound of butter each just to ice it. In the end, the cake was bigger than my wedding cake! And that was when I realized that they meant two 9 x 13 pans, not actual sheet cakes. Ugh. We called it cakezilla. When the iced cake blocks started to defrost (we froze them to set the icing), the whole thing started to topple (it was a stack of blocks) due to all the weight. One thing is for sure--I will always remember it!!

I have done some other silly things over the years like put 1 1/3 cups water in a Bundt cake instead of 1/3 cup, put 1 tablespoon salt in a chocolate pudding dessert instead of 1 teaspoon, etc. Unfortunately some of these were pre-kids so i can't blame mommy brain! LOL!

[Cynthiabutterfly]

My mom (her idea of cooking is slicing hot dogs and opening a can of beans) always took her still frozen turkey out the day before Thanksgiving, turns on the oven the night before, putting in the still partially-frozen bird, and leaves it in all night, until we eat dinner at noon the next day.

Needless to say, it was not really the moistest turkey....:nah1:

She just always did it that way, I'm pretty sure her mom did it that way too. :shrug7:

She was so shocked the first time I cooked a turkey and it was done in less than 4 hours. She almost refused to eat it, it couldn't possibly be cooked all the way thru!