Kitchen

[lasvegasfoodie]

Very funny thread. It reminds me of an old joke.

A new wife sitting down to dinner with her new husband tells him proudly ""My specialties are meatloaf and peach cobbler"". He replies ""Which one is this?""

[lasvegasfoodie]

Very funny thread. It reminds me of an old joke.

A new wife sitting down to dinner with her husband proudly tells him ""my specialties are meatloaf and peach cobbler"". He replies ""which one is this?""

[LTT1]

On 4/19/2014 lasvegasfoodie said:

Very funny thread. It reminds me of an old joke.

A new wife sitting down to dinner with her husband proudly tells him ""my specialties are meatloaf and peach cobbler"". He replies ""which one is this?""

The time I accidentally used baking SODA instead of baking POWDER in lemon squares... they were brown... they went in the trash.

[cookie5]

I remember when I was about 10 or so, my neighbor friend and I decided to make a cake from scratch for our moms. We didn't have any flour so we thought Bisquick would work since it had flour in it. Flintstone cake.

[151949]

When I was in high school the church was having a meeting (congregational church) with a spaghetti dinner before. our teen group was asked to make the dinner so my brother, my girlfriend and I were cooking the sauce - a huge pot of it - and my brother kept tasting it and saying it was too bland. So since my Mom was at the meeting he ran out and got her and after she tasted it - she reached into the fridge and got out a big bottle of wine and liberally added it to the sauce - which fixed it perfectly. However, we were appalled because it was communion wine. She said -until it is in a glass and up at the alter it is nothing but wine from the liquor store.

[rat2e]

At college in the 70's, I had a good friend who was gullible and loved to cook. She came in one day wanting to know what 'pot' brownies were. She had heard someone talking about them in class. We told her they were regular brownies made on the stove top in a pot instead of using a pan in the oven. She believed us and we would laugh every time she mentioned wanting the recipe to make them. Well, she got the last laugh. 'Gone with the Wind' was showing for the 1st time on TV and a hugh crowd had gathered to watch it. (No videos or internet in those days.) We had camped out all day to make sure we had front roll seating. As soon as intermission started and the TV volumn was turned off, my friend jumps up and says in a loud voice, let's go make some of those pot brownies. LOL! Needless to say we had to fess up and tell her the truth. She was so embarrassed but the crowd loved it. They appalled and yelled alright.

[house cat]

On 4/19/2014 lasvegasfoodie said:

Very funny thread. It reminds me of an old joke.

A new wife sitting down to dinner with her husband proudly tells him ""my specialties are meatloaf and peach cobbler"". He replies ""which one is this?""

[Sooner]

On 4/19/2014 rat2e said:

At college in the 70's, I had a good friend who was gullible and loved to cook. She came in one day wanting to know what 'pot' brownies were. She had heard someone talking about them in class. We told her they were regular brownies made on the stove top in a pot instead of using a pan in the oven. She believed us and we would laugh every time she mentioned wanting the recipe to make them. Well, she got the last laugh. 'Gone with the Wind' was showing for the 1st time on TV and a hugh crowd had gathered to watch it. (No videos or internet in those days.) We had camped out all day to make sure we had front roll seating. As soon as intermission started and the TV volumn was turned off, my friend jumps up and says in a loud voice, let's go make some of those pot brownies. LOL! Needless to say we had to fess up and tell her the truth. She was so embarrassed but the crowd loved it. They appalled and yelled alright.

FUNNY story! Google Katherine Hepburn's brownies. They are wonderful and are made in one "pot!" The article was in Ladies Home Journal I think maybe in the early 1980s?

I looked it up and it was the 1975 Ladies Home Journal! GO STIR UP A POT! They are so easy and so good!

Here's the recipe:

MAKES 9 BROWNIES

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8 tbsp. unsalted butter, plus more for greasing
2 oz. unsweetened chocolate
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
½ tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup roughly chopped walnuts
¼ cup flour
¼ tsp. fine salt

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1. Heat oven to 325°. Grease an 8" x 8" baking pan with butter. Line the pan with parchment paper; grease the paper. Set the pan aside.

2. Melt the butter and the chocolate together in a 2-quart saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Remove the pan from heat and stir in the sugar. Add the eggs and vanilla and stir to make a smooth batter. Add the walnuts, flour, and salt; stir until incorporated. Pour the batter into the baking pan and spread evenly. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 40–45 minutes. Let cool on a rack. Cut and serve.

[Nightowlz]

The only thing I can think of was after I got married at 18 I made a chocolate pudding pie. I had no idea at all how to cook. When we ate a piece I said this does not taste right & DH said what did you do? The pie shell I bought needed to be baked & I forgot to bake the pie shell. Oh well you live & learn.

[house cat]

Oh, that reminds me! As a kid, I never had Kool-Aid. When my son was a toddler, I mixed up a batch for him and his friends on a hot day. They said they didn't like it - no one drank it. When my husband came home he said, "Ooooh, you made Kool-Aid?" and he poured himself a big glass. The look on his face said it all. I didn't know you had to put sugar in it.