[Bionic]

The trouble with multi tasking is that you can get confused, well at my age you can anyway.
 
I was making chilli jam (which is fantastic) and a lasagne at the same time. I had everything weighed out and chopped. I started with the chilli jam and then when I was making the lasagne couldn't find the onion that I had prepared.
Guess what... I had put it in the chilli jam which doesn't have onions in the recipe 
Oh well, it still tastes ok but perhaps I would be better being less organised next time.
Sally

[Lesley Silvester]

 
 
Reminds me of the time that my mum got home from work and made herself a coffee before starting dinner.  She put two chops to cook in the microwave, put the veg on then got a mug of left-over gravy out of the fridge, the plan being to pour the gravy over the dished up dinner and heat it through in the microwave.  Everything's cooking nicely when the phone rings.  She went off to answer it and was gone about ten minutes.  Chops are now cold but she thinks the gravy will warm them up, pours it over chops on plates and puts it in the mocrowave.  Then looks round for her coffee and thinks Where's my coffee and what's that cup of cold gravy doing there?  Whoops.
 
The chops were fine after a wash under the tap and the real gravy adding.  My step father couldn't tell anyway.

[Bionic]

When I first got married I used to buy most things in tins.  OH was quite partial to a Fray Bentos meat pie.
One day I cooked a mince pie with potatoes, carrots and peas and when I went to serve it up it turned out to be the sweet mince type. So we just had veg for dinner and had the mince pie for dessert   

[Lesley Silvester]

You and my mum have a lot in common, Sally.  I think of the time she made Scotch eggs for party.  Seven eggs put on one side, then six hardboiled.  When they were done, she carfully rolled them in flour then sausage meat, couldn't find the egg she's got out for dipping it in so got another one, dipped all the eggs and coated them in breadcrumbes then deep fried them.  When she tried to cut them into quarters, she couldn't understand why one wasn't cooked properly.  Then she realised it had shell in it.  Yes, she's coated the raw egg in sausage meat and deep fried it.
 
I think my biggest cullinary mistake was when I made a cheese and onion pie, then an apple pie and used the same knife that I'd chopped the onion with to trim the pastry on both pies.  Fine on the c & o pie but not the apple.      Or there was the time I put a bowl of bread dough to rise on the storage heater (the big, old-fashioned type) and it rose so much it went down the back.  We had the smell of bread every time the heater came on, then the smell of toast, finally the smell of burnt toast.
 
I guess we've all done simlar things in the kitchen.  Come of folks, own up.

[Fowgill Farm]

Ok i confess to purse in the fridge, and block of butter in my handbag
 
Sally have you the receep for your chilli jam please?
 
mandy 

[Sylvia]

I once found my purse in the deep freeze(or rather the OH did ) and I made a lovely apple cake to take to a party and found to my   I'd put salt instead of sugar in it. I've always kept my salt in it's original container since.

[Bionic]

Mandy, I have posted the chilli jam recipe on a seperate thread
Sally

[Lesley Silvester]

Ok i confess to purse in the fridge, and block of butter in my handbag
 
Sally have you the receep for your chilli jam please?
 
mandy 

How long was the butter in your bag before you noticed?   
 
My purse has ended up in the fridge as well, in a carrier bag of vegetables that I had just shoved in there.  It was very cold when I got it back.

[luckylady]

My purse has ended up in the fridge as well, in a carrier bag of vegetables that I had just shoved in there.  It was very cold when I got it back.

Did you put the £notes in the salad compartment to keep them crisp?