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LOVE the hard-boiled egg story...


Mine was chocolate chip cookies...I used salt instead of sugar (don't know what I was thinking). They were the nastiest cookies in the world.

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When I was little (middle school age) I tried to make a cake on my own. As I read the directions and saw that it called for 1/3 of a cup of water, I misread it and thought it meant 1 cup of water 3x. Needless to say that cake never set up and ended up a soupy mess.

When I first started cooking for my husband I found a recipe for an Irish casserole dish made with lamb stew meat and potatoes. Well the only lamb I found in the store was stew meat but with the bones still in. (I didn't know then that they were for soup) I spent hours trying to cut the little pieces of meat from those darn bones and the casserole came out terrible. I'm really lucky that DH isn't picky but he told me never to try that recipe again.

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The first time I made sauce, I gave DH horrendous heartburn for days. I was so embarrassed. Now I make delicious sauce.

My most recent mishap was with blueberry muffins. I don't know what went wrong, but they were gross. Total waste of beautiful fresh blueberries.

Re: And then something went tragically wrong....

Posted by tray831


Pumpkin Muffins.


I made the muffins and the recipe called for Egg Whites so since the only term I knew of Egg Whites were hard boiled, so I cooked the egg whites first then threw them in the mix.

They came out w/ white lumpy chunks and knew something was wrong. I had called my mom down and explained and asked "what did I do wrong"?.

I think she almost peed herself. I just never associated egg white liquid as "egg white". And yes, mommy loves to tell people this story.

(I was new to the baking and cooking world)