Absent-Minded Professor ---errr Mom I mean ...
 

We all know the Classic Movie (Original)
Absent-Minded Professor ...

Well ... is there such thing as ....
Absent-Minded Mom?

:confused:

D'oh!

Normally I do not make TV Dinners (or
Pre-Made Dinners) unless I've been busy
or otherwise ... but since they (Store) had
such a big bargain on Frozen Food - How
could one not resist at that Bargain Galore?
I loaded the shopping cart with Frozen
Dinners of all sorts from Mexican to Italian!

Well - My son (a young teen at that time) wanted
Pizza!

OK - Fine - Pizza shall it be...

Since this kind was a "Self Rising Bread",
I had to pre-heat the oven first and you're
supposed to take the pizza out of the box,
and take it out of the wrapper and place
it on the baking sheet.

Well this Absent-minded Mom here was
so overly tired that the moment the Oven
went "ding" (pre-heated) - I threw the entire
box on the baking sheet and tossed into the
oven.

It did not take very long for the "house to
smell funny" and my son came up and said...

"MOM? Are you supposed to take the Pizza
out of the box and wrapper first?"

:yikes:

While the BOX was burning, I was barely
lucky that I was able to salvage the pizza,
for the plastic wrapper had not harmed or
did anything to the pizza -- but it DID ruin
my baking sheet though ...

LEAVING RED BARON (reversed) imprint
permanently on that side of the pan which
I wasn't able to remove at all!

:o

Note: I still get teased frequently when making those Frozen Pizzas whenever they come
to being; "Don't forget to take it out of the box and wrapper..."

I'll just say that you cannot replace baking soda for baking powder when you make a baked good. Learned the hard way :D

I am so happy to hear that another person put the whole box in instead of what WAS INSIDE THE BOX.

And I did the baking soda instead of baking powder and I remember my girlfriend telling me 'you did what??" and I remember saying:

"BAKING SODA, BAKING POWDER, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE??""

I can't believe I was ever younger than I am now. God, was I stupid.

I'll tell you about my matzoh balls in another post.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY!!!

I love these kinds of threads cuz I can sure relate. I tell my daughter I have such a brilliant mind it's hard to keep up! LOL

About 6 months after my first really bad MS exacerbation, I had my some friends & family over for dinner to show them that I was alright....not to worry. So, I make my famous spaghetti sauce (old hand me down recipe that I cook for about 12 hours....yummy) & have about 10 people over. Big night for me.

Anyway, as we are sitting down eating dinner, I ask my daughter what was wrong with the sauce. She, of course, said nothing....tastes great. But, I knew something was different about it. It gave me terrible heartburn. :Noooo:

It was really bugging me the next day & I looked in my pantry to eye my ingredients. Right where the parsley usually is was a jar of catnip then I looked around the kitchen & sure enough the parsley was with the catfood.

That's right....I used CATNIP instead of PARSLEY in my sauce. :eek: I called my daughter & asked if she'd been running around in circles or scratching behind her head cuz she had eaten kittie drugs the night before. I'm not sure I'll ever live that one down. :icon_lol:

Michele:

That's the funniest story I ever heard.

Here's another one from me (and at age 60, believe me, I have STORIES!!!).

I'm 15 years old, my mother is in the living room and she says "go and make me a cup of instant coffee. I said to myself "what the heck is instant coffee".

Not wanting to look or sound stupid I casually say. "How much do I use".???

My mother responds "just take a teaspoon and put it in the hot cup of water".

????????????????????????????????????????????

So I (not knowing what the heck I'm doing), I take out a can of Maxwell House Coffee, I take a mug, I put it under the hot water faucet, I then take a teaspoon of the Maxwell House Coffee, and I tried to make a cup of coffee.

All I'm seeing is huge coffee grinds floating in the cup of coffee.

I bring it over to my mother and I go "how on earth can you drink this?"

To say she yelled at me is putting it mildly.

I ultimately learned that there was a jar of instant coffee in the cupboard.

Every time I walk in the kitchen it's a blunder. LOL. I have so many blunders I could write a book! I did not inherit the cooking gene from my mom.

Since I do have kids to feed, I stick with real simple basic recipes now. I also use the crockpot quite a bit as I have never had a blunder with that.

My last blunder I almost set the kitchen on fire.:eek:

I actually did set a fire.

I was 18 and wanted a Sara Lee Cake. It came Frozen. I took it out of the freezer and because this was WAY BEFORE ANYONE HAD A MICROWAVE OVEN, I did what I thought would do the trick (to defrost this frozen cake loaf).

I simply put it on top of my toaster and pressed the toaster plunger down.

I did not stay in the kitchen to watch it defrost!!! Oh god forbid I should use my brains and do this!!!

No, I simply went into the other room to watch tv, thinking that it would take the time it took (to make toast), that it would take the exact same time and defrost this cake.

Now who on earth takes a frozen loaf of Sara Lee and plops it (still inside the foil wrapper mind you), and leaves it on a toaster that is turned on??? Why, me of course!!!

The whole thing caught fire, I smelled smoke, I ran into the kitchen, saw the whole thing on fire, promptly hit the cake and it fell off of the toaster (which was ruined by the way.

Knowing my mother (who was not home), I just threw everything away, went to the hardware store and bought the exact same toaster.

Never told her.

Here's something I wrote elsewhere but now think it goes here.

Remember me? I'm the one who asked a question about making bread.
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The other day I was mixing some dough in my bread machine to put in the oven to bake a yummy loaf of bread to take to my FIL's on Easter. I sat there listening to the machine making noises because it was working & I waited for a beep to tell me it was ready to take out the dough. It soon beeped & when I went to take it out it looked like I just put it in! What's wrong I thought!.... I forgot to put in the paddle & things didn't get mixed up :(

I started over but didn't tell anyone till now. :o

You're as bad as me!!!!!!

lol