Comments on: Your Most Memorable Holiday Fails

By: Janie

Janie — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:03:08 +0000

My first Thanksgiving I was married, we were living on a Marine Corps Base in the middle of the Mojave Desert. I called my mother in Kansas to get all her recipes. She said, “If you are going to stuff the turkey, just don’t stuff it too tightly.” She did not, however, say how tight was too tight and I blew a hole in the top of it. It actually tasted just fine.

By: bubbysoo

bubbysoo — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:24:38 +0000

I made cookies for one of the desserts that called for toasted slivered almonds. I remembered that I had a container of toasted slivered almonds in my freezer and added them to the cookies – a double batch (about 80 cookies). When they came out of the oven thank heaven I tasted one. I like to toast slivered almonds and slivered garlic to sprinkle on salads and that’s what I had in my freezer. I had about 80 garlic flavored cookies that ended up in the garbage!

By: beth w

beth w — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 17:20:50 +0000

We hosted Thanksgiving for my husband’s family for the first time two years ago. One of their traditions is orange jello with mandarin oranges in it. So I decided to use the mandarin orange juice from the cans and cut down on the amount of cold water called for. If I had chilled the cans (and hence the mandarin orange juice), I think it would’ve worked fine. But…the jello didn’t set, and the top of it was watery and the bottom was super hard. I have since let them know if they want jello, they can make that one themselves, since I apparently am incapable of making jello

By: kat-in-texas

kat-in-texas — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 04:12:56 +0000

Newlywed with new knives, I was trying to cut brownies out of a brand new stoneware pan with a rounded tip serrated bread knife. As I tried to force the knife between the brownies and new stoneware (it was like cement), my hand went down the blade and sliced into three of my fingers! (It was a bloody disaster!) Thank goodness I had already cooked the Thanksgiving meal and had taken a shower as I spent the afternoon in the ER getting sewn up. My family still teases me every Thanksgiving saying, “Don’t eat the brownies!”

By: Laura in Little Rock

Laura in Little Rock — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:18:04 +0000

Several years ago I decided to try Ree’s brine, carefully bought a turkey with no additives, prepared the brine, soaked the turkey. Etc. Yeah, the brine calls for apple cider. I added “apple cider vinegar.” Luckily, the turkey tasted fine, but one dear friend still teases me about the year I attempted to pickle the turkey. Whups.

By: Valerie Hedlund

Valerie Hedlund — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 22:45:41 +0000

We painted the dining room before Thanksgiving and our escaped hamster went down in the uncovered air vent. The next week we had 32 family members at this gorgeous feast, and all we could smell was dead hamster.

By: Alison T

Alison T — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 14:42:22 +0000

My first hosting of Thanksgiving found me having cooked the turkey with the gizzards still inside in the bag.
Now I’m just famous for consistently undercooking the prime rib. My stove is easily 30 years old and I’m thinking it might not be getting as hot as it used to.
Enjoy the week end!

By: Lesley T

Lesley T — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:17:33 +0000

I made sausage balls on a rimless cookie sheet and caught my oven on fire . . .

By: VBrown

VBrown — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:24:20 +0000

Likely new knives, then if any left, sheet pan.

By: cindy in ak

cindy in ak — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 06:51:41 +0000

Years ago when I attempted to do an all out feast I forgot to put sugar in the pumpkin pie. Pie came out beautiful but did not taste very well. Since then I have done that same meal and it gets better each year. However, when I make the pumpkin pie I am checking and double checking that I have everything in it…