Oh my! What a mess.

Well at least you were a good sport & cleaned that huge mess up.

Newly home from our honeymoon, DH and I received a pizza delivery before we were ready to eat and put it -- box and all -- into the oven to 'keep warm'. Our first floor apartment soon filled with smoke. We turned off the oven, *opened the oven door*, then opened the windows AND the door to the hall -- thereby filling the whole building with the smell of singed cardboard. Novel way to meet your new neighbors!

Sorry about all the mishaps but glad they were resolved. Here's mine- On Mother's Day, my husband decided to roast a duck directly on the electric oven rack. He thoughtfully put a jelly roll pan on the bottom of the oven to catch the dripping fat. The fat spilled over onto the burner and caught fire. Thankfully, the fire was contained in the oven and the oven was not damaged.

I guess you learned a lesson that day that has lasted over the years. lol Hopefully you haven't done that again. We had our son cooking for us so no fiasco's here this year.

Years ago my sister and I were making Thanksgiving dinner for our spouses and decided to make pumpkin pie as well. We got a recipe but weren't brave enough to make the crusts and so we bought those which come two to a pack. Well, what we didn't realize was that (at the time anyway) there was a sheet of waxpaper separating the two pie crusts. So, you guessed it, when we went to cut the pies there was the wax paper. We scraped off all the pumpkin pie, removed the wax paper, put the pie mix back in and it was actually quite good. We were in hysterics and still laugh about it.

I love a good chuckle! The only thing I can think of was many, many years ago, I took pumpkin pie to my husband's sister's home for a meal. I could not understand why my pumpkin pie had a different taste. Later it dawned on me I had put chili powder in instead of cinnamon! I never have forgotten that.

Sue

I forgot the sugar in my pumpkin pies one year. Priceless faces on those trying to be polite!

Jemdandy, I remember you mentioning that before! Too funny.

Happy, he roasted the duck on the actual rack? Oh dear.

I can't remember any mishaps, but my mortal fear is when I make stock, accidentally pouring it through the strainer and down the sink. I always stop and think what I'm doing first.

Hi Marilyn Sue,

Your " ... never have forgotten ... " may have been aided somewhat by the victims having reminded you, from time to time?

ole joyfuelled ... who recommends bringing joy to folks' lives when possible

One Thanksgiving I had the cream and the beater cooling in the fridge -- whipped it up as the pumpkin pie was being cut and...forgot the powdered sugar. (More 'polite smiles' at table!)

I was doing pretty well this year. It was all made ahead and I only needed to go shower and dress before they came. I kept looking at all the spoons and bowls, counting them repeatedly because there were more bowls/spoons than food? What had I forgotten? Ugh. The carrots. Those couldn't be made ahead of time and I knew I was going to make them day of, but had conveniently forgotten until really late. I think I was deglazing the pan the moment my brother drove up. Boy, the air was heavy with bourbon. I had to open the windows and let it air out.

The first year George and I were together we decided to use the charcoal grill and the rotisserie. What we didn't know is that doing it like that the bird cooks a lot quicker. We wound up trying to microwave the squash (in an old Amana Radar Range) which didn't work, forgot to put in the rolls, clogged up the drain when a helpful person peeled the potatoes in the sink and put the peelings in the disposal.

We remember that first Thanksgiving every year and love sharing it with our new friends. We've gotten the rotisserie thing down pat now as well as our time management. We'd better after 36 years together.

I remember a few years ago we had our dinner downstairs where there was more room. I had my turkey baking upstairs in a glass pan. I went to baste it and seen it needed a little more water. oops when I added the water it shattered the baking dish. OMH I did the best I could cleaning it up and luckily no one had glass in their turkey. LOL, never did that again.

My first time hosting the clan for Thanksgiving I was still single but had a house large enough to seat all 21. It was the first time my new oven had been used and, when I set it to roast the turkey, it went into the self-clean mode. The temperature shot up, the oven locked and the program would not cancel. I turned off the breaker switch, took a long shower and had a couple glasses of wine. Just before everyone else started arriving, I turned the breaker back on, the oven unlocked and I found the turkey done to perfection. (Good thing, too. I had my tool box out so as to disassemble the oven to get to the bird.) The meal went off perfectly except for the dinner rolls (I tried the microwave with inedible results) and we're still laughing about it almost 30 years later.