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Who else had a Christmas disaster??! :-)
Well, almost a disaster...but it was only a cake! but I was making it to
bring to a Christmas dinner...It was a pound cake but with 1/2 lb butter...6 eggs... sour cream, egg whites beaten separately-and I hated to lose all that !!... Actually Thanksgiving Day while I was putting foil on the turkey to keep it from browning so much , I dropped some foil on the electric unit in the oven. It really glowed bright in that one spot and has so since then. Of course, it waited until the cake had been in 25 of the 75 minutes it would take to bake. I heard a pop..thought it might be grease....opened the oven and saw that spot on the electric element really glowing...on fire...!...and then it quit. Big sigh!!! My dd quickly thought of our convection oven......did a preheat while i quickly closed the other oven door with the cake still in it.......and finished the cake in the convection oven. It came out perfectly !!!!...Mary. "IMS" wrote in message ... Got up this morning at 7:30 to get the bird prepped and in the oven. Now, I don't know about any of you but I am absolutely in a daze first thing in the AM, a real walking zombie. Well to make a long story short, in my attempt to get some coffee made and also get the bird in the oven, I sustained a major burn on my right palm. Ouch!! Talk about throwing a wrench into dinner preparations. And, to top it off, the roasting pan I put the turkey in ended up being too shallow and about an hour before dinner smoke filled the house as the drippings overflowed onto the oven floor! Thank goodness this is a new stove and I suppose I should be positive and look at it from the perspective of now being able to test the self clean feature. And, you know, it's really hard to carve a turkey left handed when you're right handed...I'm so glad I remembered the electric knife. Thank goodness for all the help from the DH and DS and my other dinner guests who pitched in to help the cripple....dinner was actually a success. Anyway to get back on topic, I just finished loading up one of my Christmas gifts, EQ5 onto my computer! What a nifty program!! Guess I'll work up some projects for the remainder of the evening because I certainly won't be able to sew for a few days. Anyone else have a Christmas day disaster? ------------------------ "Old quilters never die, they just go to pieces." |
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Mine was the cake too. My beloved cake pan is double-walled, just the right
size for the Christmas cake and has a lid that fits perfectly. I just could not find it. Anywhere. Even looked in the drawer under the oven where I only store dust bunnies. One year I had put it in the freezer full of cups of water frozen for a hurricane threat. Not this year. Where in the world? Finally, I remembered. I had baked a banana nut bread for DSIL back in November. The cake pan went to live with him. Probably likes him better. SO ! for the cake pan substitute, I had to choose between the drip pan from a 1961 Ford pickup truck and the kitty litter box. Guess which one I chose? Polly "MB" wrote in message ... Well, almost a disaster...but it was only a cake! but I was making it to bring to a Christmas dinner...It was a pound cake but with 1/2 lb butter...6 eggs... sour cream, egg whites beaten separately-and I hated to lose all that !!... Actually Thanksgiving Day while I was putting foil on the turkey to keep it from browning so much , I dropped some foil on the electric unit in the oven. It really glowed bright in that one spot and has so since then. Of course, it waited until the cake had been in 25 of the 75 minutes it would take to bake. I heard a pop..thought it might be grease....opened the oven and saw that spot on the electric element really glowing...on fire...!...and then it quit. Big sigh!!! My dd quickly thought of our convection oven......did a preheat while i quickly closed the other oven door with the cake still in it.......and finished the cake in the convection oven. It came out perfectly !!!!...Mary. "IMS" wrote in message ... Got up this morning at 7:30 to get the bird prepped and in the oven. Now, I don't know about any of you but I am absolutely in a daze first thing in the AM, a real walking zombie. Well to make a long story short, in my attempt to get some coffee made and also get the bird in the oven, I sustained a major burn on my right palm. Ouch!! Talk about throwing a wrench into dinner preparations. And, to top it off, the roasting pan I put the turkey in ended up being too shallow and about an hour before dinner smoke filled the house as the drippings overflowed onto the oven floor! Thank goodness this is a new stove and I suppose I should be positive and look at it from the perspective of now being able to test the self clean feature. And, you know, it's really hard to carve a turkey left handed when you're right handed...I'm so glad I remembered the electric knife. Thank goodness for all the help from the DH and DS and my other dinner guests who pitched in to help the cripple....dinner was actually a success. Anyway to get back on topic, I just finished loading up one of my Christmas gifts, EQ5 onto my computer! What a nifty program!! Guess I'll work up some projects for the remainder of the evening because I certainly won't be able to sew for a few days. Anyone else have a Christmas day disaster? ------------------------ "Old quilters never die, they just go to pieces." |
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Polly....I love that!!!......I, too, didn't find something i've been looking
for this year...and it is several chalkware Santas that I've been sent and collected for a few years. Haven't a clue as to where they are !!!...I had enough decorations out but sure would love to know where I stashed them . Mary "Polly Esther" wrote in message k.net... Mine was the cake too. My beloved cake pan is double-walled, just the right size for the Christmas cake and has a lid that fits perfectly. I just could not find it. Anywhere. Even looked in the drawer under the oven where I only store dust bunnies. One year I had put it in the freezer full of cups of water frozen for a hurricane threat. Not this year. Where in the world? Finally, I remembered. I had baked a banana nut bread for DSIL back in November. The cake pan went to live with him. Probably likes him better. SO ! for the cake pan substitute, I had to choose between the drip pan from a 1961 Ford pickup truck and the kitty litter box. Guess which one I chose? Polly "MB" wrote in message ... Well, almost a disaster...but it was only a cake! but I was making it to bring to a Christmas dinner...It was a pound cake but with 1/2 lb butter...6 eggs... sour cream, egg whites beaten separately-and I hated to lose all that !!... Actually Thanksgiving Day while I was putting foil on the turkey to keep it from browning so much , I dropped some foil on the electric unit in the oven. It really glowed bright in that one spot and has so since then. Of course, it waited until the cake had been in 25 of the 75 minutes it would take to bake. I heard a pop..thought it might be grease....opened the oven and saw that spot on the electric element really glowing...on fire...!...and then it quit. Big sigh!!! My dd quickly thought of our convection oven......did a preheat while i quickly closed the other oven door with the cake still in it.......and finished the cake in the convection oven. It came out perfectly !!!!...Mary. "IMS" wrote in message ... Got up this morning at 7:30 to get the bird prepped and in the oven. Now, I don't know about any of you but I am absolutely in a daze first thing in the AM, a real walking zombie. Well to make a long story short, in my attempt to get some coffee made and also get the bird in the oven, I sustained a major burn on my right palm. Ouch!! Talk about throwing a wrench into dinner preparations. And, to top it off, the roasting pan I put the turkey in ended up being too shallow and about an hour before dinner smoke filled the house as the drippings overflowed onto the oven floor! Thank goodness this is a new stove and I suppose I should be positive and look at it from the perspective of now being able to test the self clean feature. And, you know, it's really hard to carve a turkey left handed when you're right handed...I'm so glad I remembered the electric knife. Thank goodness for all the help from the DH and DS and my other dinner guests who pitched in to help the cripple....dinner was actually a success. Anyway to get back on topic, I just finished loading up one of my Christmas gifts, EQ5 onto my computer! What a nifty program!! Guess I'll work up some projects for the remainder of the evening because I certainly won't be able to sew for a few days. Anyone else have a Christmas day disaster? ------------------------ "Old quilters never die, they just go to pieces." |
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I just could
not find it. Anywhere. Xmas was quiet with just me & DBahHumbugH. So I set up my big basting frame, prepared to basted my nephew's Graduation quilt. Then I couldn't find the batting for it! I knew I bought it. It was supposed to be in the fabric closet. No luck! This morning I looked once more before adding the quilt shop to my list of morning errands. There it was - right where it belonged. I swear sometimes DH figures out what I'll want next, hides it & then after I give up in frustration, puts it back where it belongs! LOL Janet |
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Do near disasters count??? As I was preparing to cook my first ever
WHOLE turkey, I realized that I had nothing that it would fit into for cooking!!! Of course, I thought that i had seen some of the grocery stores would be opening late...nope, I thought wrong. So....before I could start on a crying jag, DH started suggesting all different things. We ended up lining the pizza pan with foil and cooking the turkey on that...you know what?? It worked!!! DH said he had never had turkey so moist...guess we will have to file this one away for future reference! Larisa "IMS" wrote in message ... Got up this morning at 7:30 to get the bird prepped and in the oven. Now, I don't know about any of you but I am absolutely in a daze first thing in the AM, a real walking zombie. Well to make a long story short, in my attempt to get some coffee made and also get the bird in the oven, I sustained a major burn on my right palm. Ouch!! Talk about throwing a wrench into dinner preparations. And, to top it off, the roasting pan I put the turkey in ended up being too shallow and about an hour before dinner smoke filled the house as the drippings overflowed onto the oven floor! Thank goodness this is a new stove and I suppose I should be positive and look at it from the perspective of now being able to test the self clean feature. And, you know, it's really hard to carve a turkey left handed when you're right handed...I'm so glad I remembered the electric knife. Thank goodness for all the help from the DH and DS and my other dinner guests who pitched in to help the cripple....dinner was actually a success. Anyway to get back on topic, I just finished loading up one of my Christmas gifts, EQ5 onto my computer! What a nifty program!! Guess I'll work up some projects for the remainder of the evening because I certainly won't be able to sew for a few days. Anyone else have a Christmas day disaster? ------------------------ "Old quilters never die, they just go to pieces." |
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What! You don't have a kitty litter pan? No drip pan from a pickup truck?
How do you young people survive? Polly "CNYstitcher" wrote in message news Do near disasters count??? As I was preparing to cook my first ever WHOLE turkey, I realized that I had nothing that it would fit into for cooking!!! Of course, I thought that i had seen some of the grocery stores would be opening late...nope, I thought wrong. So....before I could start on a crying jag, DH started suggesting all different things. We ended up lining the pizza pan with foil and cooking the turkey on that...you know what?? It worked!!! DH said he had never had turkey so moist...guess we will have to file this one away for future reference! Larisa "IMS" wrote in message ... Got up this morning at 7:30 to get the bird prepped and in the oven. Now, I don't know about any of you but I am absolutely in a daze first thing in the AM, a real walking zombie. Well to make a long story short, in my attempt to get some coffee made and also get the bird in the oven, I sustained a major burn on my right palm. Ouch!! Talk about throwing a wrench into dinner preparations. And, to top it off, the roasting pan I put the turkey in ended up being too shallow and about an hour before dinner smoke filled the house as the drippings overflowed onto the oven floor! Thank goodness this is a new stove and I suppose I should be positive and look at it from the perspective of now being able to test the self clean feature. And, you know, it's really hard to carve a turkey left handed when you're right handed...I'm so glad I remembered the electric knife. Thank goodness for all the help from the DH and DS and my other dinner guests who pitched in to help the cripple....dinner was actually a success. Anyway to get back on topic, I just finished loading up one of my Christmas gifts, EQ5 onto my computer! What a nifty program!! Guess I'll work up some projects for the remainder of the evening because I certainly won't be able to sew for a few days. Anyone else have a Christmas day disaster? ------------------------ "Old quilters never die, they just go to pieces." |
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ROFLPIMP!!!
--Heidi http://community.webshots.com/user/rabbit2b "Polly Esther" wrote in message k.net... What! You don't have a kitty litter pan? No drip pan from a pickup truck? How do you young people survive? Polly |
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Polly Esther wrote:
What! You don't have a kitty litter pan? No drip pan from a pickup truck? How do you young people survive? Polly You mustn't say things like that - my stitches hurt! My parents were once given a 24 lb turkey instead of the 10 lb one they ordered from the farmer because the silly bird had half strangled itself on the wire netting, and had a big bruise on its neck... Tasted good, but couldn't be sold. They had to prop it up on its pope's nose and drumsticks, with the roasting tin on the bottom of the oven, to cook it as it was so big! There was only the two of them and 3 small kids (all under 4, as bro was a baby at the time!), and we didn't have a freezer in those days... -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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Now there's a perfect example of necessity being the mother of invention!
--Heidi http://community.webshots.com/user/rabbit2b "CNYstitcher" wrote in message news Do near disasters count??? As I was preparing to cook my first ever WHOLE turkey, I realized that I had nothing that it would fit into for cooking!!! Of course, I thought that i had seen some of the grocery stores would be opening late...nope, I thought wrong. So....before I could start on a crying jag, DH started suggesting all different things. We ended up lining the pizza pan with foil and cooking the turkey on that...you know what?? It worked!!! DH said he had never had turkey so moist...guess we will have to file this one away for future reference! Larisa "IMS" wrote in message ... Got up this morning at 7:30 to get the bird prepped and in the oven. Now, I don't know about any of you but I am absolutely in a daze first thing in the AM, a real walking zombie. Well to make a long story short, in my attempt to get some coffee made and also get the bird in the oven, I sustained a major burn on my right palm. Ouch!! Talk about throwing a wrench into dinner preparations. And, to top it off, the roasting pan I put the turkey in ended up being too shallow and about an hour before dinner smoke filled the house as the drippings overflowed onto the oven floor! Thank goodness this is a new stove and I suppose I should be positive and look at it from the perspective of now being able to test the self clean feature. And, you know, it's really hard to carve a turkey left handed when you're right handed...I'm so glad I remembered the electric knife. Thank goodness for all the help from the DH and DS and my other dinner guests who pitched in to help the cripple....dinner was actually a success. Anyway to get back on topic, I just finished loading up one of my Christmas gifts, EQ5 onto my computer! What a nifty program!! Guess I'll work up some projects for the remainder of the evening because I certainly won't be able to sew for a few days. Anyone else have a Christmas day disaster? ------------------------ "Old quilters never die, they just go to pieces." |
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Sounds more like the mother of severe intestinal trouble!
Roberta in D "hfw" wrote in message news Now there's a perfect example of necessity being the mother of invention! --Heidi http://community.webshots.com/user/rabbit2b "CNYstitcher" wrote in message news Do near disasters count??? As I was preparing to cook my first ever WHOLE turkey, I realized that I had nothing that it would fit into for cooking!!! Of course, I thought that i had seen some of the grocery stores would be opening late...nope, I thought wrong. So....before I could start on a crying jag, DH started suggesting all different things. We ended up lining the pizza pan with foil and cooking the turkey on that...you know what?? It worked!!! DH said he had never had turkey so moist...guess we will have to file this one away for future reference! Larisa "IMS" wrote in message ... Got up this morning at 7:30 to get the bird prepped and in the oven. Now, I don't know about any of you but I am absolutely in a daze first thing in the AM, a real walking zombie. Well to make a long story short, in my attempt to get some coffee made and also get the bird in the oven, I sustained a major burn on my right palm. Ouch!! Talk about throwing a wrench into dinner preparations. And, to top it off, the roasting pan I put the turkey in ended up being too shallow and about an hour before dinner smoke filled the house as the drippings overflowed onto the oven floor! Thank goodness this is a new stove and I suppose I should be positive and look at it from the perspective of now being able to test the self clean feature. And, you know, it's really hard to carve a turkey left handed when you're right handed...I'm so glad I remembered the electric knife. Thank goodness for all the help from the DH and DS and my other dinner guests who pitched in to help the cripple....dinner was actually a success. Anyway to get back on topic, I just finished loading up one of my Christmas gifts, EQ5 onto my computer! What a nifty program!! Guess I'll work up some projects for the remainder of the evening because I certainly won't be able to sew for a few days. Anyone else have a Christmas day disaster? ------------------------ "Old quilters never die, they just go to pieces." |
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