My best friend from HS and I were dating a pair of Army guys after HS (who we're both still married to 10 yrs. later!) and thought we'd impress them w/ our domestic skills by cooking a fancy salmon dinner. Unbeknownst to them, we had no domestic skills to speak of, but we thought we'd pretend. Her dad had salmon in the freezer and we bought ingredients for the rest of the dinner. About 2 hours before dinnertime, we got the salmon out of the freezer, plopped it on the counter, and opened a cook book. "Hmmm they all say the salmon should be thawed." "well how long do you think it would take in the microwave?" "It will thaw in the oven first, then it will cook, right?" Needless to say, we did a last minute scramble to a nice local restaurant and had them put everything in to-go containers. We went back to her house, put it in pots/pans and served it up as if we had cooked it ourselves! My poor friends' hubby didn't know that she couldn't cook anything beyond a ham and cheese sandwich. Once she burned noodles b/c she didn't know you have to add water.
The last 2 Thanksgivings my family (extended) has gathered at my house only to smell smoke and then feast on a smoked Thanksgiving dinner. My oven just can't handle that much stuff in there at once (we'll blame the oven...).
