Do you have a funny cooking story? You know...that special dinner where you were cooking a roast but forgot to turn on the oven? Stuff like that. I just thought it would be fun to share our kitchen war stories   

I seen this really good looking picture and recipe of oven baked herbed chicken.  It seemed pretty simple and I can cook pretty good for the most part.  I got all my supplies and had it looking so good when I put it into the oven.  About 20 min later, I was playing with the kids and smelled smoke.  The kitchen was filled with it and when I opened the door of the oven there was my chicken on fire ( due to the olive oil and having been put too close to the top burner and broil accidently turned on)  It was very inedible after that.  The apartment stunk for about 2 weeks after that. My husband simply bought me a rotisserie machine shortly after that lol.

My sister blew up an egg once.  She forgot she was boiling one...

At my house, the kids will scream- Oh no! Mom's doing something crazy again! If I was a bad cook, it would be funny, but then, I guess through their eyes, I leave a little to be desired. I'm a klutz, and am frequently messing things up - going too fast, only reading half the recipe and getting tired - and doing my own thing. My mom gave me one of those cute little way-too-expensive pumpkin bread kits she saw in a way-too-expensive store. She knows I love to cook but simply don't have the time.

Once again, I was rushing through things, opened the can of pumpkin, dumped it out, added the extras, poured out the mix, then read the instructions. (oh yeah - I read the instructions if all else fails  ) It called for a small can of pumpkin, and I had the big Thanksgiving size can dumped and mixed in. I even called the company because I didn't want to waste everything. I looked up a recipe for pumpkin bread, read the ingredients on the back of the mix kit, and since the company couldn't even tell me what to put in to make up the rest (she was very, very nice to me, though) I decided to wing it - it was better than dumping it down the drain.

The company owner was so nice she shipped another package to me to fix it "right" - but we actually liked my "mistake" bread better!!!!!! Go figure....

I also have the Thanksgiving frozen turkey on the table stories, experimental fruit -a.k.a. mystery food, pepper instead of cinnamon, you name it....  (just wanted to use that smiley!) reservations for 12 made at the wrong restaurant once - we were dressed for the first place we intended to go to, wound up at the place I actually made the reservations - twice as expensive, and in our nice dresses and casual men's clothes, were woefully underdressed - but we ate there anyway! 

Now, when my kids ask me if I can cook dinner, they actually mean, "Mom, will you please call Pizza Hut?" 

Kids have such a  way of just cheering you on. lol.  my son has this certain tone of voice that lets me know he isn't very sure of what cooking.

As a teen,  my friend and I made fried chicken and potatoes.  We forgot to flour the chicken.  It was a mess.  I knew it looked different but couldn't figure out why.

When I was a kid, every Sunday my dad and I would look through our favorite cook book and pick out a whole dinner to cook. One Sunday he had invited a woman friend over and we chose a bacon wrapped chicken breast recipe to make. Well we cooked it per the recipe, but the bacon didn't seem to be cooking, so we left it in longer until the bacon was cooked! OMG, we had chicken jerky for dinner. We laughed and laughed and chewed and chewed. His friend couldn't understand why we thought it was funny and why we weren't upset at our faux pas. We told her that we experiment all the time and if it works we have a great dinner and if it doesn't we have a REALLY bad dinner with laughter!

My faux pas was the first Thanksgiving I was married I invited friends from out of state to come for dinner. I set the alarm early so I could get the turkey in the oven. I am tip-toeing around my kitchen at 4am only to discover I never took it out of the freezer! So, we had sliced turkey from the grocery store deli.
My mom wanted to make my dad a pot roast the first week they were married. She ended up welding the roast to the bottom of the pan and had to throw it out pan and all! Maybe forgot the water??