Nothing yet, but it's still early. LOL

As long as you didn’t start cooking with the plastic in the crock oot, you should be fine. Yes, the day is young yet for me; I’m sure I’ll do something silly.

Oh boy....! My usual MO is to make something and then realize I forgot an ingredient. Then, not only do I have to make it over, but it usually means a run to the store for an ingredient that I didn't buy extra of.

MY DH's latest joke is "How many times did you make this one?" A few weeks ago I made brownies. I don't know why I was distracted but instead of three cups of sugar, I put one. Came out of the oven flat as a pancake! It took me a while to figure out what I did as I know I added all the ingredients. Second one was perfect.

Knock on wood, I so far made a a cherry cheese pie and a pumpkin pie that are perfect.

I put the 1/2 cup of butter in a glass measuring cup, then into the microwave to melt. It never made it into the pecan pie filling....and they're baked. Oh well....tomorrow I'll have mashed potatoes to put it in.

Nicole, so you are not nervous about the pies being too dry?

eld, my husband's comment every time I entertain, is how many trips did you make to the grocery store this time. Even when I go through my recipes and think I've gotten all the ingredients written down, I overlook something.

I haven't done anything for dinner yet. Just have to make pies and will make them tomorrow so hoping there will be no mishaps. Many times I've put the top crust on the apple pie, crimped the crusts and realized I never put the butter in. In that case, I just poke it through the steam slits. :-)))

Eld....Already eating my 2nd slice. Yum! Yes...butter in them would have been a nice touch...but.....still....YUM!

Watched new DIL make apple pie. Didn’t want to stick my nose in, lets just say, I am glad we have lots of other desserts!

I realized I forgot to put the almond extract in the cranberry cakes just before I put the batter in the pans. So I just poured it in and stirred the heck out of it, hopefully that'll work. :)

Haha, I once forgot raisins in my noodle kugel after it was already in the pan and oven. But only for a few seconds. Pulled it out and artfully poked the raisins in!

Eld, I bet it was prettier than stirring them in. :)

aok, do you make your own hummus? I tried, but I just can't get it as smooth as the stuff from the store.

Only mistake so far was inhaling black pepper while seasoning the dressing. I had a huge sneezing fit!

Nicole, I did the same thing with pecan pie one year. I had artfully arranged both whole and chopped pecans, had the pie ready to go into the oven when I noticed the butter. I gently stirred it in the unbaked pie. It wasn't my best or prettiest effort but turned out OK.

My family has never been big on pecan pie, but my nephews wife asked one year if she had been in the family long enough she could ask the family pie baker (me) for her favorite. And said pecan made it feel like home to her - she's from Texas. Of course I oblige, I love her to death and appreciate that she is part of our family.

I am sure I did not remember to remove the giblet pack from the neck of the bird before placing it in the oven more than once. And there was the time when I was about 18 years old and really had no experience cooking that I roasted cornish hens without first washing them. Nobody died.

morz...I'm from Texas too. My aunt used to bring a bag of pecans from her pecan trees when she & my uncle'd visit Colorado for Christmas. We'd crack them and pick the meat out to make the pies. It was very "pioneer woman". :0) That memory makes me smile. Both gone now.

@kadefol .. no, I don't make my own hummus. This is not a critical crowd, they'll eat most anything. if it's not right, add a little extra Cool Whip, it'll be fine!! :p

Nicole, so you are not nervous about the pies being too dry? -eld6161

That's what whipping cream is for. :)

I once made a pumpkin pie using a frozen pie crust for Thanksgiving. The pie crust had a piece of wax paper on it (why I have no idea) that I didn't notice, You know the end of the story.

Have a great Thanksgiving everyone. I know your meals will be fabulous.

aok, my brother makes the best hummus. I don't have his recipe but I know its chickpeas, garlic (lots), lemon, tahini and some olive oil. So good.

Now, what have you done today to mess up?

I'm making Ina Gartens Perfect Roast Turkey. The recipe calls for a butter, lemon & thyme mixture to be stuffed under the breast skin. She says very clearly to be careful to not poke through the skin....as you can imagine, that's the 1st thing I did.

I hope your ham turns out well!

Over baked the turkey.

The only thing I made to day was a pumpkin pie. I used a store brand can of pumpkin. I used the recipe on the back, since I have not made one in a few years. I should have known it didn't sound right. For one thing it never called for any spices. I do not like nutmeg, but I put a lot of cinnamon in it. It said to preheat the oven to 450 and bake for 20 minutes. then to turn the oven to 350 and bake for another 40 minutes. I checked it before it was supposed to be done and the crust looks way to dark and the pie has some brown crusty spots on top. I had to much filling for my pie crust so I put it in a glass bowl and microwaved it. I put some cool whip on it. It was the most tasteless pie I have ever eaten.

A near miss! I was making some lemon bars today. Genius that I am, I cracked one egg at a time before adding them to the filling mix. Just before I was going to pour the mixture into the crust I found the third egg that I hadn't added. Save! I didn't make out quite so well rearranging the fridge in anticipation for leftover storage. Dropped a container of creamy salad dressing on the floor which broke and spewed everywhere. Just eeww. I cleaned all that up, but DH is a big help washing the 2 million dishes I used making the lemon bars. I'm not a good baker, and it shows. Happy Thanksgiving mishaps everyone!

Nothing so far... Mixed the miniature marshmallows and sour cream together and put in covered bowl in refrigerator. Will mix fruit cocktail, coconut, and pecans in it in the morning and it will be just great when we eat at 3 p.m. tomorrow at our oldest son and daughter-in-law's house. Son is grilling Beefalo steaks and shrimp. DIL will make her fabulous potatoes and I think fresh steamed green beams. Youngest son did a "practice" deep fried turkey day before yesterday and brought us a good size amount, so we will be having sandwiches Friday and probably Saturday. We quit hosting the large holiday get-together several years ago, so I now have minimal cooking to do!

Settled on a green salad for the vegetable. . Hit Aldi's Monday morning for their boxed spring mix. By noon this romaine warning was everywhere. MN has yet to be affected but not sure what is in this mix. Not sure what we will do. Maybe no vegi this year.

Arcy, it should say on the pkg what is in the spring mix. I buy that for my guinea pig and I don't believe there is romaine in it

I have been eating my spring mix, but after looking at the back of the box, it contains romaine. I dumped it. I don't know how all this works? Can you just get one bad piece of it? Mine was organic, but they are saying all so.....

Well, here we go. I went to add stuffing mix to the bread crumbs I had prepared and it's all musty and gross! Contaminated the bread so I had to toss all that. The bird needed to go in the oven so I just put a bunch of celery and an onion in the cavity. While the turkey is cooking I have time to come up with a from scratch stuffing that I'll need to cook outside the bird. Not much of a tragedy but I need to do some creative back peddling since I don't think I have all the ingredients I need. Celery and onions hadn't been added yet so that's good. I have enough bread. I may add raisins and/or dried apricots. Time to investigate the larder. And maybe break out the wine. Stay tuned - it's early yet! Hahaha!

Any pecans in your pantry? You could add those and they would go well with your raisins.

Re: creamy hummus: I make a traditional recipe and it's never as loose/smooth as my favorite purchased brand. It's delicious, just not as light. Instead of adding more oil or lemon juice, I've started adding a bit of water at the end and processing it in the food processor until it's light and fluffy.

The ham was fine, no other mistakes today. I did make some of those pumpkin pie twists from crescent rolls. I didn't care for them, they were kinda messy making them and too gummy to eat. Maybe if I didn't make them about a hour ahead it would have been fine. Oh, I did make some yeast dinner rolls that said you can leave them in the refrig 4 to 48 hours ahead then let them rise and bake. Well they raised in the refrigerator. They tasted good but too airy for me. If you make them freeze the dough then rise and bake that same day.

My mishap. But....not my fault......at least I don't think so. I decided to cook my turkey last night. I bought a 10 pounder. DH told me after 34 years of marriage that he doesn't like turkey and doesn't even eat it! I never noticed as I am on the opposite side of the table. His favorite is the yams and marshmallows.

This year I decided to take a break and make reservations in three places so we would options. Turns out both DD's who are vegetarians, decided to come here.

So, I decided on the small turkey, which would just be for me. It was awful! We threw it out.

Today, DH was more than happy with only sides, with his yams taking center stage. DD's had their tofurkey and the side dishes.

Dinner delayed. Furnace conked out this afternoon and just now getting fixed. Good grief - it's only 3 degrees out right now. I'm so glad I didn't have company this year. I would have lost it. Looking forward to dinner though - I'm hungry (and cold!) Oh oh - furnace just made a weird noise. I'm not listening! La la la la. Fingers crossed.....

No mishaps here...yet. But, we've had our share over the years.

For anyone who would like a good hummus recipe, I use this one:

Homemade Hummus

I add more lemon juice and cumin than called for because we like both and I add finely ground hot chiles because we like heat. I also don't add additional oil at the end because I don't think the hummus needs and I know our waistlines don't need it.

If you want to make your own tahini paste rather than using store bought, this link will tell you how to do it:

Tahini Paste

I've also found that cooked chick peas freeze really well so I always make double the amount called for and put half in the freeze. This allows me to skip the soaking and cooking steps and go straight to making hummus next time we want it.

I've been making my own hummus for many years, and it is similar to the one that Dawn posted, but I definitely never add cumin (which that recipe says is optional). For me, cumin ruins the other flavors. I use fresh Meyer lemons from my tree, and that makes a big difference, but I've not yet made my own tahini paste. However, since I do not, I add toasted sesame oil to it.

We've decided to have Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, although I've already made parts of it today. Today we are having turkey breast (cooked previously for sandwiches) with a mushroom sauce, plus cornbread stuffing, and some green beans that I already made. Today I made a Torta di Mele Al Burro, to use up some apples and in place of apple pie. I'm roasting the duck tomorrow, and I want to get a fairly early start, since it takes many hours. Our orange tree (the one that came with the house) finally has ripe oranges on it, and so I can use that in the sauce.

How nice to be able to use fruit from your own trees in your recipes, Lars.

You are right, cumin is one of those things that people either seem to love or hate. We happen to love it, me more than hubby, but I know that one has to be careful with it. My best friend detests it, so I never use cumin in anything that I will be serving to her. :-)

Sesame seed oil sounds like a good alternative to Tahini. Will file that away in my memory for future reference.

I tend to only use cumin with meat dishes that are a little heartier. I'm making meat sauce to go with spaghetti tonight and will use it in that. For vegetables or dips I wouldn't use it.

It has been 6 hrs since we ate. No one sick so all's well with the spring mix. Mine said organic too and we did find a label on the back where romaine was listed toward the end. I had a gravy mishap and spent a lot of time straining flour lumps out of it. Hate that!! Tomorrow is more of a nerve wracking time as we meet my son's future in laws. Pork Loin on the grill, cheesy potatoes, seven layer salad, home made apple sauce and raspberry pie. She's bringing Brussel sprouts. I will break out the home made hummus and corn salsa for snacking during cards. Saturday we wedding dress shop.

Arcy_gw - we met my sons future in-laws last weekend. We went out for brunch, so much easier. Enjoy!

Well, back to report that everything was going great until I got the pork chops out of the fridge only to find that they were still frozen. I partially defrosted them in the microwave yesterday, put them in the fridge overnight and never gave it a thought that they wouldn't be thawed by the time I was ready to prepare them. Ugh!

Well, my butternut squash/ pumpkin soup yesterday was short about half a can of coconut milk. I now live where the nearest supermarket is 35 minutes away, so running out to buy more was simply out of the question.

Not related to cooking, but I accidentally left a big plastic bottle of tomato juice ouitside,after finishing Thaksgiving dinner and cleaning up the kitchen, , and by this morning (Friday) it was frozen solid. It was 7 degrees last night in Long Island NY. I'll thaw it and toss.

Freezing the juice should not make it necessary to throw away. Let it defrost and shake it to remix the water content. Should be OK.

We usually have a pot luck, with me fixing the turkey, bread, dressing, gravy, cranberry salad, and a couple of desserts, but this year I fixed the whole meal, which meant I just added mashed potatoes and vegetables (sweet potatoes, carrots/corn/peas and black beans) to the above. The mashed potatoes take a lot of time near the end of the prep, and I was running a few minutes behind schedule.

I had just enough corn starch left in the box to thicken the gravy, so I'd mixed it with a little cooled giblet broth in a saucepan--all ready for the pan drippings from the turkey. Had strong son-in-law help drain the juices from the 20# turkey, then separated the turkey fat from the juices. At the last minute I poured the bowl of pan juices into the gravy saucepan, stirring briskly with the other hand--then realized I had poured in the liquid turkey fat instead. Had to start the gravy over, with flour roux, but it was still good.