Comments on: The Sunday Confessional

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:54:38 +0000

Oh my! The two most recent flubs I can think of right now involve baking and my fiance.

#1. Decided to make chocolate chip devil’s food cupcakes. Put them in the oven to bake, set the timer, and then forgot about them. The timer is supposed to go off, right? Weeeellll, for some reason I didn’t hear the timer and returned much more than 20 minutes later to find very hard cupcakes!

#2. Gone out of town, and not easily reached by cell phone. Called fiance and realized while talking to him that it was his birthday. I had been under a lot of stress and having some bad back pains for the whole week prior to this. Trying to be–something–I said, “don’t you have a birthday today?” in a very playful voice. His response, “actually it was yesterday!” Doh! He was gracious enough to say thank you.

By: Kendra

Kendra — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:25:07 +0000

Mine would have to be a real air head moment that ended up costing me a chunk of change. On mass kitchen cleaning mission, I decided to not only clean out the refrig but scrub down the shelves and drawers. I filled the sink with hot water and cleanser….and grabbed a shelf….in the hot water it went. Crrraaaccck! Cold glass shelves and hot water….not a friendly mix. Now I know the reason they print cleaning instructions in the owner manuals along with the address for ordering new parts. Its for air heads like MOI.

By: kateanon

kateanon — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:20:38 +0000

I feel so much better about my own flubs now.

I ruined a cake – trying to impress a boyfriends parents – by not knowing / remembering in Colorado, you adjust for altitude. Said cake broke the cake plate and cracked the kitchen garbage can.

My first Thanksgiving- I tried one of those Reynolds Oven bags – and melted it right to the turkey. Ick.

By: Nikky

Nikky — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:07:08 +0000

It was a Wednesday night and i made my sweetie fresh Caesar salads with grilled chicken. Dinner went over great. The next day I noticed an odd smell in my apartment. The sweetie is a garbage man so i quickly washed all his work clothes thinking that was the problem. Nope, smell got worse. I had just purchased a stand up deep freeze from craiglist so we turned that off thinking that the freezer was causing the smell, nope. The smell was similar to that of a decaying animal. We pulled out the fridge, the stove, took the trash out. Cleaned out the plumbing lines. And still couldn’t find odor. It is now Sunday and the smell is horrible. As much as it pained me to want to find the source of the smell I kept failing. Late that evening the bedroom light bulb burnt out. I went grab a light bulb from under the kitchen sink and OMG – I found the source of the smell. I put a 10 pound bag of boneless frozen chicken breasts (less the two breasts for Caesar salads) under the kitchen sink with the cleaning supplies. I dont know what i was thinking but let me tell you, chicken that has been sitting in an 80 degree apartment for 4 days smells HORRIBLE!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:31:08 +0000

Should I mention the time I accidentally dropped a ham bone in the toilet, (I was draining the pan..into the toilet!) panicked and flushed? The landlord needed to take up the entire toilet to get it out. Very embarassing!

By: K

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:44:09 +0000

My mind was apparently elsewhere one day while making guacamole. I thought I grabbed the chili powder but had grabbed cinnamon instead. Into the trash it went. I no longer use chili powder in my guac.

Another time I got sick for several days & kept worrying about the lot of fresh produce I had just purchased in the fridge so the first chance I felt a wee bit better I went into the kitchen to make myself some stirfry for supper and almost burned down the place preheating the oil in the wok due to heavy brain fog from the cold meds. Along with the “no driving” warning on cold meds they should add “no wokking” too.

By: Eyebee

Eyebee — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:17:59 +0000

Put some potatoes in the microwave for dinner. Set Timer. Went upstairs to take a shower, and a shave. Didn’t rush.

Next thing smoke alarm goes off. Go downstairs to burning smell. Potatoes are on fire in the microwave.

I must have set it for 50 minutes in instead of five. I’d been upstairs about 20 when the alarm went off.

The potatoes were cheaply replaceable; alas the fairly new $120 microwave wasn’t.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:24:18 +0000

Airhead moment. I was getting ready to go out, dressed up even, and while racing to get out the door, grabbed for the hairspray; however, it was actually a can of scrubbing bubbles. Luckily it only took a second to realize the goof, so it was only a small amount, but it was a very embarrasing moment. Glad I didn’t have any cans of spray paint nearby.

By: Shirla

Shirla — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:57:35 +0000

One of my many flubs was the time I made my youngest daughters birthday dinner. Her favorite meal, roast, potatoes, peas, gravy and hot rolls. I had baked something in the oven before putting the roast in and had turned the oven off. I later put the roast into the oven and went about preparing everything else. When it came time to take the roast out of the oven I had realized that I hadn’t turned the oven on! Everything else was ready and my family was ready to eat and I had no meat to go with my daughters birthday meal that she requested. My quick thinking saved the day though. I had a ham in the fridge that we ate. My family still gets a good laugh about it.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:31:02 +0000

I’m afraid I have more flubs than secrets. Like the time I made orange ginger salmon for dinner, even though my husband dislikes both ginger and salmon. Or the time I set off the smoke alarm cooking bacon. Or all the other times I set off the smoke alarm.

Ah, well. =)

Kate
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