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Post by gringalais on Feb 15, 2009 19:13:23 GMT
Had any lately? I did last night. We bought stuff to attempt to make buffalo chicken, but with chicken breast, not the wings.
There is a condiment here called crema de ají, a spicy red chile paste that was the closest thing to the ingredients in the recipes I have seen. I thought it might not be spicy enough, so I bought some other jalapeño based sauce too. I melted some butter and added what I thought was the crema de ají. It was not spicy at all, I looked at the bottle and it turns out I had bought ketchup. Weird, because I got it off the shelf where the spicy condiments were; it must have been an odd misplaced bottle. Crema de ají is almost the same color as ketchup, there is both ketchup and ají sold under that brand so the labels are almost the same.
I was able to save the meal, however. I used the jalapeño sauce with a bit of cayenne powder and a small amount of crema de ají left in a bottle in the back of the fridge.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2009 19:19:12 GMT
Far better to make the mistake of not having enough spices than the other way around!
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Post by gringalais on Feb 15, 2009 19:57:07 GMT
In my house I am lucky, there are always plenty of spices. I have become quite good at tracking down even hard to find stuff here, and my family sends things I can't get here. Chileans are fascinated in my kitchen, since most cuisine here only uses garlic, oregano, black pepper, cumin and paprika.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 20, 2009 17:29:29 GMT
I roasted some asparagus on the stove top the other day. I was attempting to steam it, but forgot to put the water in before laying the stems on the steamer basket. The pan was glowing red when I realized my mistake. And flaked bits of copper all over the stove top as it cooled down. Fortunately it didn't melt onto the burner and the asparagus was salvageable once steamed properly in a different pan, with water!
This is at least the 4th time I have nearly melted a pan in the kitchen, though usually I don't forget the water, I just boil it all away...
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Post by gringalais on Feb 20, 2009 17:57:24 GMT
I am bad about forgetting stuff that is on the stove until there is no water left in the pot, usually foods that take a long time to cook like beans.
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Post by bazfaz on Feb 20, 2009 21:22:07 GMT
Threadjack alert!!!
In Egypt a couple of weeks ago my lips were chapped and Mrs Faz handed me the lip salve stick, which I duly applied. When she wanted to know why I wasn't speaking to her she looked... and discovered that by mistake (I hope) she had given me the glue stick.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 20, 2009 21:43:21 GMT
Yikes! That is certainly marginally related to cooking mishaps, being oral-related & all. How did you get it off?
cooking related: use vegetable oil to remove stubborn adhesive from anything (except fabrics, of course)
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Post by bazfaz on Feb 20, 2009 22:13:15 GMT
It was only glue used for sticking stuff into her journal. Now if it had been superglue...
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Post by mockchoc on Feb 23, 2009 6:02:05 GMT
I have an alarm in my kitchen. I set it when cooking just about anything in the oven/on the stove or I would probably often forget it's on.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 23, 2009 15:42:39 GMT
I have an alarm in my kitchen, too. It's a smoke alarm, and lets me know the house is about to burn down from one of my cooking mishaps. ;-)
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 23, 2009 16:12:49 GMT
Not really on the subject, but ............. Gringa, my son claims that buffalo wings are seasoned with nothing but bottled hot sauce and butter.
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Post by gringalais on Feb 23, 2009 17:26:09 GMT
Not really on the subject, but ............. Gringa, my son claims that buffalo wings are seasoned with nothing but bottled hot sauce and butter. Not really on the subject, but ............. Gringa, my son claims that buffalo wings are seasoned with nothing but bottled hot sauce and butter. That's what I was going for, I was going to add crema de ají and the other hotter sauce to to the butter get the right level of spiciness. |
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Post by Don Cuevas on Feb 27, 2009 18:07:49 GMT
No matter how far I've ranged, I never herd of a buffalo wing.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 27, 2009 18:09:39 GMT
It's a chicken wing with BBQ sauce and spicy seasonings, a very popular bar appetizer around the US...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2009 18:40:01 GMT
Reputedly invented in Buffalo, New York, in case you are wondering.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2009 18:50:55 GMT
a real hotbed for gourmands ,Buffalo
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2009 19:00:06 GMT
Boredom can sometimes engender creativity.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 27, 2009 19:08:45 GMT
#s 15 & 16 ~~ don't be so quick to fling buffalo chips! I've never been there & only know bits garnered while doing genealogical research. However, it seems like a nice place to visit in the right time of the year: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York. Casimira: St. Joseph's Day altars! Olmstead-designed botanical garden! Kerouac: Buffalo's latest immigrants are from Somalia, Sudan, Asia, and the Arab world.
"Buffalo also has several specialty import/grocery stores in old ethnic neighborhoods, and is home to an eclectic collection of cafes and restaurants that serve adventurous, cosmopolitan fare. Locally-owned restaurants offer Chinese, German, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Mexican, Italian, Greek, Arab, Indian, Caribbean, Soul Food, and French." |
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Post by Don Cuevas on Feb 27, 2009 20:46:04 GMT
My subtle humor is lost on some.
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Post by mockchoc on Mar 2, 2009 5:08:29 GMT
I dropped half a bucket of bocconicini and it's whey today, what a mess.
Not really a cooking mishap but a food mishap I guess.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 2, 2009 5:22:38 GMT
Wow, Mocks -- was this at work? Also, what is that, some sort of cheese?
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 2, 2009 8:28:07 GMT
This is not my mishap but my upstairs neighbour's when I lived in London.
One evening I looked out of the kitchen window and noticed, flickering on the wall opposite, what looked like...could it be flames? I went outside to get a direct view of the window directly above our kitchen. Yes, flames leaping. I rushed to their front door to rouse them. Oh thanks, he said, they'd had put the deep fryer on to heat to make chips, gone to their front room, then got interested in a TV programme and forgot about the gas flames leaping up to the combustible oil.
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 2, 2009 10:30:38 GMT
Not considered a mishap by me (but by my mother). What was she originally intending to do?
It's basically ground beef mixed with mashed potatoes. I think the mashed potatoes were supposed to be a 'cover'. The whole dish was meant to be cooked in an oven.
Nowadays I just fry up ground beef, spice it, mix it with potatoe mash and serve it on top of cold slaw. I do call it 'misfired' though.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 2, 2009 19:19:19 GMT
Ha! Sounds like your mother is a good cook foiled by bad directions.  The cole slaw is a quirky touch. |
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Post by mockchoc on Mar 4, 2009 6:52:31 GMT
Tiny balls of fresh mozarella bix. Yes work. I think no one saw it  Oh well accidents do happen! |
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Post by gringalais on Apr 13, 2009 4:04:23 GMT
This has been the long weekend of cooking mishaps. My husband had Friday off, so he made lunch. He put some salmon with herbs and a bit of butter to bake in our little electric oven. The baking dish he used was oven-safe, we've used it many times in the oven. All of the sudden we hear an explosion, the glass dish had shattered into a thousand pieces. Fortunately the glass door of the oven didn't break and it still works. Not fun to clean up, though.
So, after that, we were getting hungry and he was scared to try and make something else. I wasn't in much mood to cook, so I dug up a packet of this bean soup that you just add water to; we keep a few things like that around for times when no one wants to or has time to cook. Just add water, easy, right? I left the kitchen for only a few minutes and it had burnt and stuck to the pan.
I found some more salmon in the freezer and ended up making a fish curry that came out okay. Third time was a charm.
Then today, we were going to make a recipe using breaded chicken. I normally use panko but this time, I could not find panko at the store, so I decided to try and use cracker crumbs. I used this thing that is for mashing potatoes to grind them up. It slipped up the side of the bowl and ended up getting crumbs everywhere. Fortunately, there was exactly enough left to bread the chicken and the dogs helped to clean up the mess
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2009 5:03:34 GMT
It sounds like you spent more time cleaning than cooking or eating!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2009 12:02:58 GMT
Brings to mind an episode years ago...I was attempting to make horseradish in the blender. The blender had a long hairline crack but I had used it many times without incident. Not this time. I put in all the ingredients,cranked up the blender, it did the job but right before being complete I went to answer the phone and the crack gave way. The whole kitchen,walls,curtains,ceiling etc. covered in horseradish. The cleanup was forever and I was without a wonderful batch of horseradish.
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Post by gringalais on Apr 13, 2009 17:13:08 GMT
That sounds worse than either mess at my house casimira.
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Post by pookie on Apr 13, 2009 23:52:53 GMT
Casimiras' post reminded me of 'The Great Chestnut Explosion' as it became known as.
I was roasting chestnuts in the oven,2 trays of them.
Everything seemed to be coming along nicely until I opened the oven door to check.
Well all hell broke loose and chestnuts were exploding left right and centre.
I was ducking and weaving trying to turn the oven off and avoide being hit in the head
by the flying missiles
They hit me , the walls,ceiling ,floor.What a mess!
I had forgotten to cut cross on the bottom!
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The cole slaw is a quirky touch. 