[scraphappen]

Sorry no recipe to share but I just had to share my dinner fiasco tonight. I worked really hard to make a vege shepards pie. Featured on Clean eating. Anyhow I was using my food processor to chop the carrots, celery and onions. All seperatly.
finished my dinner put it in the oven and proceded to wash dishes. I noticed the blade on the food processor has broken off small pieces of plastic. Guess what?... DH found chopped up plastic in his serving. Wee threw it all out and went out for pizza. Threw out a perfectly good dinner... Well besides these tiny plastic pieces that the chopper chopped up!!!
Ok I guess I can laugh about it now but boy was I upset!! Sorry just had to share!!
Thank God for Pizza take out!!

LOL

[scrappinchar]

Oh, no! Hopefully the pizza was good.
What part of the food processor did the plastic come from? Could you tell? And...have you had it long? What brand? lol I'm looking at getting one...so "inquiring minds want to know."

[Cheri T]

Oh dear:( This might be the kind of thing a family laughs about later, but would just make me cry, then spitting mad at the time.

[tiza126]

Oh no! I'm glad nobody actually ate the plastic. Pizza sounds pretty good

[luckyladybug]

Oh, that's the pits! I hope you try the recipe again, without the plastic. Enjoy pizza!

[PBarnes]

That really is too unfortunate. Pizza sounds good to me.

[Belle]

I hate cooking, so if that happened to me, I would be so mad. Pizza sounds like a good comfort food though.

[April Showers]

So, before you found the plastic, how did it taste? Just curious.
I'm refraining from telling my "had to throw it away" story. I even have photos of all those cookies in the trash, I'm still waiting for a few more years to pass before I scrap those.

[Smiles]

That's the pits that you went to all that work and had to throw it out! So glad pizza came to the rescue.

[scraphappen]

scrappinchar, on 07 January 2012 - 09:18 PM, said:

Oh, no! Hopefully the pizza was good.
What part of the food processor did the plastic come from? Could you tell? And...have you had it long? What brand? lol I'm looking at getting one...so "inquiring minds want to know."

I have had it for many years. It was the plastic that holds the chopping blade. I think it just deteriated from being in the dishwasher, But I was told it was dishwasher safe. Ohh well.

As for those of you who asked about how it tasted I never found out. DH fished for plastic and then took a bite anyways. So when I found out there was plastic in our food! I didn't try it. Going to have to try the recipe again another day!!
And Yeah I did almost cry but I waited an hour before righting about it here and while I was writing I could laugh about it.

[Sara Arell]

Oh, gosh - I'm just glad you saw the little plastic pieces before you ate it! I'll be checking my food processor a little more closely. Thanks for the heads-up! I guess I had never given that much thought.

[scrappinchar]

I had a moment of tears just a few nights ago over dinner. Poor Rich. lol Dinner wound up fine, though. I told Rich, later that evening, that I was sorry for my emotional state earlier. I had (during the dinner preparation meltdown) sort of - as nicely as I could, at the time - told him I was upset and didn't want him and Nathan standing there looking at me. lol

[princessrunningfingers]

The worst cooking disaster I ever had happend when I was a new bride. I knew DH loved rhubarb pie, so I found a recipe and made one. It was awful. I never figured out what I did wrong.

[Sara Arell]

The worst cooking disaster I ever had that sticks in my memory was only a couple months after Rich and I got married. My Dad was on a business trip and was coming to visit so I baked a cherry pie. After dinner, I brought out my beautiful pie that really did look beautiful and cut it and gave my Dad a piece and Rich a piece - Rich, immediately said, "Ewwwww.....did you forget to put sugar in the pie"?

My Dad, however, sat there and didn't say a word, continued to eat his pie and asked for a second piece!

(he's still MY Dad and he's still my husband) LOL

[Belle]

The day after I got married, I prepared a meal for my new In-Laws. I was so nervous. On the way to the table, I dropped the mash potatoes on the floor. Luckily the dish did not break. My Mother-In-Law just put it all back in the dish and told me not to tell anybody. We ate the potatoes and nobody ever knew.

[Sara Arell]

Belle, on 08 January 2012 - 01:14 PM, said:

The day after I got married, I prepared a meal for my new In-Laws. I was so nervous. On the way to the table, I dropped the mash potatoes on the floor. Luckily the dish did not break. My Mother-In-Law just put it all back in the dish and told me not to tell anybody. We ate the potatoes and nobody ever knew.

What a great mother-in-law!

[scrappinchar]

Belle, on 08 January 2012 - 01:14 PM, said:

The day after I got married, I prepared a meal for my new In-Laws. I was so nervous. On the way to the table, I dropped the mash potatoes on the floor. Luckily the dish did not break. My Mother-In-Law just put it all back in the dish and told me not to tell anybody. We ate the potatoes and nobody ever knew.

[SodScrap]

What a bummer!! Sounds like you have good humor about it though. I'm sure we all have a similar story!

[scrapcritter]

This entire thread made me laugh out loud!! Not to say all the efforts for a wonderful meal are not appreciated, its never fun when you spend so much time on preparation and in the end for any reason its not edible.

[scrappyjan]

My DH and I had been invited to supper with a newly married colleague of his. We arrived at their brand new house and found the brand new dining table beautifully set with new linen, silverware, crystal glassware and silver candelabra. The husband was in the garden dressed in a tall white chef's hat and apron, desperately trying to light the new barbeque!!
A couple of weeks later we returned the invitation. As I carried a tray laden with the serving dishes of pasta and bolognese sauce to the table I caught my sleeve on the door handle. The whole lot landed upside-down on the carpet!! To make light of it I just said "Tuck in - the floor's clean!" The new wife burst into tears and ran from the room sobbing! Ooops!

[Syndee]

That so sounds like something that would happen to me!! How frustrating!

[Syndee]

Syndee, on 14 January 2012 - 08:21 PM, said:

That so sounds like something that would happen to me!! How frustrating!

It's so great to hear all these stories!!

[glassbird]

My Dad likes to tell the story of my mother and the pies that she tried to make in the first year or so after they were married (1959). During their courtship, my mother had eaten at her soon-to-be-mother-in-law's house many times and noticed that all of the pies were served with a very fine, light "burned" appearance on the surface. There was no taste to it, and everyone ate them with great enjoyment. This "burned" look was very consistent, and not something that my mother was familiar with from her own mother's cooking. But she wanted to be a good wife, and serve similar pies to her new husband in their own home. So she put an enormous amount of effort and time into lightly burning the tops of all her pies. (I suspect that she may have even thrown out a few pies that came out overly black, although she would never admit to this.)

Eventually, my mother discovered that all of my grandmother's pies were cooked in a wood-fired stove in the basement of her house. The blackened surface was simply a by-product of that cooking method, nothing special. And certainly not easily replicated in a "modern" electric oven! Mom was dismayed to find out that her hard work was completely unnecessary, and futher frustrated when Dad confessed that he thought Mom was just burning the pies because she did not know how to cook!

[scraphappen]

glassbird, on 15 January 2012 - 05:57 PM, said:

My Dad likes to tell the story of my mother and the pies that she tried to make in the first year or so after they were married (1959). During their courtship, my mother had eaten at her soon-to-be-mother-in-law's house many times and noticed that all of the pies were served with a very fine, light "burned" appearance on the surface. There was no taste to it, and everyone ate them with great enjoyment. This "burned" look was very consistent, and not something that my mother was familiar with from her own mother's cooking. But she wanted to be a good wife, and serve similar pies to her new husband in their own home. So she put an enormous amount of effort and time into lightly burning the tops of all her pies. (I suspect that she may have even thrown out a few pies that came out overly black, although she would never admit to this.)

Eventually, my mother discovered that all of my grandmother's pies were cooked in a wood-fired stove in the basement of her house. The blackened surface was simply a by-product of that cooking method, nothing special. And certainly not easily replicated in a "modern" electric oven! Mom was dismayed to find out that her hard work was completely unnecessary, and futher frustrated when Dad confessed that he thought Mom was just burning the pies because she did not know how to cook!

too funny~!!!!

[Sara Arell]

scrappyjan, on 14 January 2012 - 11:28 AM, said:

My DH and I had been invited to supper with a newly married colleague of his. We arrived at their brand new house and found the brand new dining table beautifully set with new linen, silverware, crystal glassware and silver candelabra. The husband was in the garden dressed in a tall white chef's hat and apron, desperately trying to light the new barbeque!!
A couple of weeks later we returned the invitation. As I carried a tray laden with the serving dishes of pasta and bolognese sauce to the table I caught my sleeve on the door handle. The whole lot landed upside-down on the carpet!! To make light of it I just said "Tuck in - the floor's clean!" The new wife burst into tears and ran from the room sobbing! Ooops!

Oh, Jan! I can almost visualize this!

[Sara Arell]

This thread has kept me giggling - it's kinda nice to know that I'm not the only one who's done things like this.

Years ago, when I was pregnant with my second child and 180 lbs heavy and about 3 weeks away from my due date, an old high school friend and her husband who just happened to live in Sumter where we were stationed at Shaw AFB invited us over to dinner. They had not been married very long and Vickey's cooking skills were still very much in the beginner stage - she was fortunate in that she and her husband had a housekeeper who normally did all of the cooking for them. But on this occasion, Vickey wanted to cook the dinner herself and we were having a roast - we got there around 6 pm and the roast was still in the oven - by 7 pm, the roast still was not done and so we just had a good time talking - when the clock turned to 8 pm and stlll no roast, my pregnant self, I guess, couldn't take it any longer and as hard as I tried, I got really dizzy and passed out right in her kitchen! Vickey was so embarrased but not nearly as embarrased as was I.

As for the roast, well, she had forgotten to turn the oven on! We dined on appetizers that night! But we all had a good laugh about it after Rich picked me up off the floor!

[LaLo1103]

Ack! I LOVE my food processor - I use it almost daily. I didn't even know they could break (as you described) but my eyes have been opened! I did just lay a blender to rest that also broke. Guess these things really don't live forever!