PrintMost embarrassing moment while entertaining?
What have you cooked or rather mis-cooked while your guests are sitting at the table, ready for your next "delectable dish"? That last minute preparation gone awry?
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11 Comments:
Honestly? It happens to me so frequently, it is a running joke with my husband. He begs me to keep things simple, and I always believe I have just discovered the recipe of redemption! I am a truly dedicated "foodie" who probably does not belong in a kitchen.! The good news is: I never cook for strangers.
izatryt at 10:55AM on 04/24/08
Uck, one time i was making a dinner for a group of friends that included red sauce. I make my own sauce, and had made and tasted one jar, but at the last minute, a couple more people joined the party, so in my haste, I put another jar in with the first without tasting it. Everyone was served, I thought it was fine...until I took a bite. I guess the second jar had come unsealed sometime during the winter because it had gone a little sour, making the entire sauce taste a bit like rotten tomatoes. It was so awful! I wouldn't touch it after the first bite, but my saintly friends ate almost everything, they scraped the sauce off, added extra cheese, and nobody got sick! Still pretty devastating.
embolini9 at 10:57AM on 04/24/08
Set my oven on fire.
jpolk at 11:44AM on 04/24/08
I ruined steaks for a dinner party and I dropped a few of the creme brulees. 'Twas not pretty ...
http://nujoikitchendiary.blogspot.com/
NuJoi at 11:55AM on 04/24/08
Oh I've set my oven on fire - happened this past Easter when I made yorkshire pudding. It ended up in the backyard in the snow!
My favourite 'screw up' around a dinnner actually happened when I lived at home many years ago. My boyfriend at the time was sporting a cast, having been hit by a car and had his leg broken in four places. After many weeks of not being able to drive/get around, he was comfortable enough to manage the short drive to my house. My mom planned a "tv-tray" dinner, so he wouldn't have to move around terribly much. We had hamburgers and salad, and I carefully put all the condiments on a separate tray that we could all reach. At the end of the meal, we cleared the tables and I picked up the tray with the condiments. I promptly tripped over my boyfriend's foot which of course was sticking out in the middle of the room.
Mustard, ketchup, relish flew EVERYWHERE in that room...... The three of us looked in horror and just burst out laughing. We found relish stuck to the wall behind the stereo six months later when we moved it to accomodate the Christmas tree!
I've long since grown up, moved away, etc but I am still in touch with said ex boyfriend - and he still laughed when I reminded him of that episode.
Maureen at 12:07PM on 04/24/08
I was trying a peanut sauce recipe for the first time, and it said to put the mixture in the microwave for 30 seconds. I thought it said 30 minutes, and actually I thought that was strange so I swear I double checked.. but guess not.. because I put it in for 30 minutes. After about 5 minutes, a horrible smell started coming from the microwave... needless to say no peanut sauce that night...
sarag22 at 1:31PM on 04/24/08
This didn't happen to me, but a coworker of mine. They had a wedding that was catered. The food didn't show up because the caterer got into an accident. There were no calls to update the mishap - assume it must have been a small scale caterer.
After waiting several hours for the food, they ended up ordering pizza.
Cassaendra at 2:45PM on 04/24/08
I was home from college. My parents are very active in their church and there was a meeting of the deacons and the pastor. All in all there were about 12 people. My mom asked me to make coffee for everyone. Then she told me fix all the coffees with cream & sugar because that's how everyone took their coffee. Well, when everyone started spitting the coffee back into their cups, it was obvious I used salt instead of sugar. She had a big ceramic bowl of salt on the counter, I just assumed it was her new sugar bowl.
wookie at 4:00PM on 04/24/08
This is only peripherally food related, but so funny that I have to mention it. It was at a Pampered Chef party. The hostess was a rather buxom lady. During the demonstration, the hostess's Bassett Hound (named Earnest T. Bass(et Hound) for you Andy Griffith fans) came out wearing one of her humongous bras, with both arms in the appropriate areas. Either he'd been napping in the laundry basket or her kids were up to mischief, either way, it was totally hilarious.
wookie at 4:10PM on 04/24/08
Maureen: Wow. That's what I was trying to make, too!
The upshot of the whole episode was that the roasted potatoes that were already cooking in there became FIRE roasted potatoes... and those were darned tasty.
jpolk at 4:40PM on 04/24/08
@wookie; LOL Funny!!
izatryt at 4:47PM on 04/24/08