Today while I was making potato salad from my MIL's recipe, I was reminded of what is probably my most embarassing food moment. Some years ago, more than a decade now, we were invited to the BIL's house for a summer cookout. Helper that I am, I was helping BIL's wife to get ready for dinner. She asked me to get the potato salad she had made, out of the refrigerator, and place it on the table. I removed it from the fridge, and as I was taking the lid off the tupperware bowl, I was also stepping across the dead asleep doberman lying in the middle of the small kitchen floor simultaneously. I was overcome with a noxious smell, and I said to BIL's wife, "I think the dog pooted, do you SMELL THAT? Ewww!!" She shot a narrow eyed look at me and said, "That's the potato salad!". Needless to say...she and I didn't converse much that night!!

Now tell me yours~!

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), July 29, 2001

Answers

There have been so many...hard to pick one...

...there was the time I had promised apple pie for Thanksgiving and the stores were closed by the time I got my apple pie filling out of the can and discovered it was pudding type only with no apple chunks and I tried to use canned pears instead...

...and the time I cooked a duck and learned that one should cook duck on a shingle, throw the duck away, and eat the shingle...

...and the time I boiled an egg for 45 minutes because no one had ever told me how long to do it and the egg was a lump of black coal when I got through with it...

...and the time I had the whole family over for chili and forgot to put the chili powder in and no one said anything...

...and the time I put everything leftover for the week into one pot and tried to convince the family that "glom" is good and we ended up leaving the plates on the table and going to a burger joint...

...and the time I got the sugar mixed up with the salt in a batch of cookies...

...and the time I forgot three times that I had already added garlic to the stew...

...and the time there were bugs in the rice and I was in a hurry and didn't notice and the kids weren't buying the "extra protein" routine...

and...you're all invited to dinner next April... >:)

-- helen (no@cook.in.the.house), July 30, 2001.

LOL! You two are funny! I'll have to think about it awhile. There were quite a few. :-)

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), July 30, 2001.

Helen... I accept!! (I'll do the cooking ;-)

AB, you mean stories about rice that could be used for house cement? :-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), July 31, 2001.

Now that would be embarassing Gayla! Yes, like the rice-LOL!!

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), July 31, 2001.

Aunt Bee, the 'moment' involving food which I remember most was something my Aunt did to me. (I was traumatized!) LOL

It was Easter and we had all gone to her house for Sunday dinner. After eating, the kids went outside to play. She came out and called me to come see what she had. It was a real bird's nest with 3 beautiful spotted blue eggs inside. As I looked with admiration at the wonderful treasure, she picked up one of the eggs, popped it in her mouth and began crunching it. I was horrified! It wasn't until later I found out they were malted milk balls (candy) shaped and colored like eggs for Easter. (This was in the 60's and I STILL remember!) LOL

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), July 31, 2001.

The squirrels stole our blue easter eggs....

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), August 05, 2001.

Yay! Robert's back!!!

-- helen (robert@back.at.last), August 05, 2001.