Blonde Moment

[Madison's Mom]

I hope everyone had a very special Christmas. I know my family and I did.

I just have to share a real blonde moment with you all! I decided to make a prime rib roast w/ yorkshire pudding for Christmas. I'm crossing my fingers that I don't mess up the roast since it cost me $74.00. I went out and bought a brand new digital themometer. I put the themometer in the roast and stick it in the oven...... next thing I know, my boyfriend is telling me his eye's are burning and he smells burning plastic. Well, you guessed it, the themometer doesn't stay in the meat while it cooks.....go figure Everyone had a really big laugh on me (my face was red). The roast did turn out wonderful even without the themometer! The yorkshire pudding was beautiful when it came out of the oven but by the time everyone sat down to dinner the pudding looked like a frisbie and tasted like flour paste. The dog's wouldn't even it it.

I'm going out right after the new year and buy a metal meat themometer since I'm pretty sure they "stay" in the meat while cooking

I think I'll go to McDonalds for our New Year's Day dinner!

Tammy

 

[Billysmum]

Oh what a shame! still, at least it was edible.

We have just put in a new oven, made by Miele. It has a meat thermometer that you put into the meat and then plug it in inside the oven. The display on the front of the oven tells you the temp of the oven and the temp of the inside of the meat! You can program it to stop cooking when the meat gets to whatever temp you choose.

Good gadget! My OH loves it. (He does the cooking in this house!)

 

[Austin's Mom]

I've had a few of those blonde moments myself, Tammy! Last time I made lasagna instead of covering it with foil I used the plastic top that came with the foil pan. DUH.........it melted right into the lasagna!

 

[mancin]

I have a rice story too. There's a small cup that comes w/ our rice cooker that you can use the measure the rice. One time I was making rice and DH had told me "put 3 cups of water in w/ the rice". Instead of using the small cup that came w/ the cooker like I was supposed to (which is pretty small), I used 3 REAL cups of water. Needless to say the rice didn't turn out!
And I can't tell you how many times I've put things in the oven or on the burners w/o turning them on!

 

[Madison's Mom]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one "cooking challenged".

The first time I had people over for dinner, I was BBQing in the back yard and my friend comes screaming out of my house, saying your oven's on fire.

I was making french bread and forgot and left the knife on the pan when I started broiling it. Of course, the knife handle caught fire.

Food turned out okay but the house really smelled!

 

[basak]

My grandmother used to say ''you have to get cooked when you're cooking''
OK, the translation may be a bit awkward but what it means is that you constantly have to watch your food while it's cooking, otherwise you won't be successful.
I don't think I ever saw a thermometer like that. I am sure Turkey has a few somewhere but I never see one.
We always poke the meat with a knife or something :D

basak

 

[Madison's Mom]

Basak

I took your meaning "you have to get cooked to cook" as maybe tying one on. . Actually, next time I cook I'm going to drink a 6 pack of beer, that way when I screw it up I won't care

 

[basak]

All those years of learning and speaking English, all gone to waste with one word: cooked

Oh my, never thought of it that way. I was trying to say something abslutely different:D
Well, you can say that you're drunk in different words:
zilzurna - this one is funny: so drunk, he/she is dacing with imaginary trompets doesn't make sense, does it?
sarhos - drunk
dut - this is a fruit
ayyas - really drunk

this are all idioms and don't make sense at all when you traslate them:D