A funny winter solstice dinner...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

My daughter had planned a solstice dinner celebration and had asked a few pointers in cooking when I was visiting her last weekend so I showed her how to prepare a Turkey. She was telling me all about that she planned to serve with it and described a twice cooked sweet potatoe/mushroom/sausage dish that sounded yummy. I asked if she needed help with any of the rest of the dinner and she said she had it under control and described everything she needed to do. Sounded pretty simple to me.

Last night she called to tell me her dinner was a real hit, that the turkey came out great… but there was one slight problem with the sweet potatoes… someone had glanced in the crockpot and said…errr Fi…I don’t think those are sweet potatoes.

What had been mistakenly tagged sweet potatoes in the grocery store in actuality were acorn squash LOL.
Do any of you have similiar funny cooking experience?

(has decided to send her daughter a picture book on vegetables)

I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!

2

ROFLMAO!

Once, I bought Raspberry Vinagrette (sp?) salad dressing when I thought I was buying Red Wine Vinegar.

Thus endeth the tale.

3

My mom is an excellent cook, but she once made a lemon meringue pie with salt instead of sugar…yikes!

4

TennHippie, I have a similar story. My mother made pumpkin pie without sugar (no salt though). The kicker: She took them (2 pies) to a church carry-in dinner. She couldn’t understand why me and my brothers didn’t want to finish ours. You should have seen her move when we told her.

Mr. K’s Link of the Month:

The Enchanted World of Rankin-Bass

5

i made a chocolate zucchini cake once, and forgot the sugar.

not something i’d recommend. :slight_smile:

“human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” - albert einstein

6

Never substitute baking soda for baking powder. They only sound alike.