Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail.
Well there were actually two that stick out and I still feel some guilt and some embarrassment.
Guilt you may ask?
Well you see my husband is a golfer and every couple of months four of his friends would get together to play golf and afterwards the wives would take turns to cook them a meal.
I had two weans. ( an Ulster Scots word for little children) and trying to cook dinner and watch them was trying to say the least.
The main course was fine but the apple crumble for dessert didn’t work out as well. As I lifted the crumble mixture to put on top of the apples, one of the kids started crying….
In my haste to see what the problem was I dropped the crumble mix on the floor. Sorted the kids out and came back and with little time to make another mix, I gathered the crumble from the floor ( which was clean) put it on top of the apples, baked it, served it to my guests and said nothing.
The other incident that caused acute embarrassment was on New Years Day when as a newly wed I decided to cook duck for my in-laws and my brother and his wife.
Now I’d never cooked a duck before and I don’t remember a duck ever being cooked when I lived at home
So I didn’t realise that there is very little meat on a duck and it certainly doesn’t serve 6, no matter how big it looked..
As a result there was only a tiny sliver of duck and quite big servings of roast potatoes and vegetables. No one said anything and I sat at the table mortified. I still think of it after all these years but now I can laugh about it and I did tell the husband about the crumble but only after he had eaten it.
CHATTER 