BS: Xmas 'Mishaps'

Subject: Xmas 'Mishaps'
From: TheMuse
Date: 25 Dec 99 - 07:55 PM

Hi Everyone,

I had Xmas dinner at my house today. I cook, however, I do not consider myself "a cook" so I tend toward easy recipes and short cuts. Last night, in preparing, I was making a cheese cake. Not a traditional one with springfoam pan, but a short cut easy one. You mix up the cream cheese filling stuff and put it into a ready made graham cracker crust in a foil pan and shove it in the oven. I took it out of the oven after the alotted 40 minutes to see if it was "set". It wasn't. As I was putting it back into the oven, the foil pan decided to FOLD and consequently the crust crumbled and the filling started to pour into the oven, on the oven door, and BETWEEN the door and the over, oozing into the drawer below. I was able to get the pan back onto the top of the stove before all the filling poured out. I then invented "Cream Cheese Crumb Cake". I served it today in bowls. Surprisingly it was a hit. Of course I told the story of the invention so the sympathy may have helped!

Anyone else have a "mishap" story to tell?

TheMuse

Subject: RE: BS: Xmas 'Mishaps'
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Dec 99 - 07:59 PM

Ah yes, the Christmas of 1985. I was 7 years old, and the electricity went out about 3:00pm, while the ham was cooking in the oven!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Xmas 'Mishaps'
From: sophocleese
Date: 25 Dec 99 - 10:11 PM

Ah yes childhood mishaps. The Easybake Oven that melted because I turned it on and forgot about it, the sand sculpture set that dissolved because I added too much water, the time Dad tried to open a bottle of champagne and my brother suggested he use his teeth (he took out his upper plate and pried the cork out with that, a toast to dentists all over the world), the pastry where a friend got the wrong jar and used cornstarch instead of flour ( we scooped the filling out of the shell) (actually I think that was thanksgiving) and last year when the parent's stove didn't work so they cooked everything in our stove and then drove it back to their place. Mishaps always happen at christmas because we try especially hard to be pefect and all gods and goddesses start laughing at us.

Subject: RE: BS: Xmas 'Mishaps'
From: JenEllen
Date: 26 Dec 99 - 08:32 PM

I agree. But when you can laugh at these things, it makes the memories more precious. The Christmas my uncle was tramping across the roof to make pretend Santa noises for the kids in the house. Santa took a tumble, and the kids learned a few new words of the four letter variety. Any Christmas with the entire family present, and only one bathroom. And this Christmas, when an auto accident took out power to the whole area on Christmas day. Coleman stove and candles. All the neighbors saw light at our place and came over, glorious catching up with friends. What Christmas probably should have been in the first place, but would never have been if not for disaster.

Subject: RE: BS: Xmas 'Mishaps'
From: Susan A-R
Date: 26 Dec 99 - 09:23 PM

Well, THIS year my brother's big black lab ate a good portion of the Christmas ham (Why couldn't he have eaten the fruitcake??) In past years, my brother got (at age 2 or 3 or so,) the magical combination of a harmonica and raisins. The harmonica didn't last long. A friend of mine and I dropped the Thanksgiving turkey a few years back. It din't fall out of the pan, but the grease sure did. YUCK!! I like the view about perfection and the laughter of the gods and goddesses.

Susan A-R (It was a merry Christmas nonetheless.)