Let me tell you about a bad recipe I tried

[Gus]

Background info: Wife is gone. I'm left with what's in the house as I'm too lazy to go to the grocery store for supplies that night.

Fish! Great idea I think to myself because my wife hates fish. How about a beer batter, an even better idea. I've never beer battered any fish before so I thought I could just make something up as I went. So I cracked the beer, opened a box of bisquick (only flourey substance in the house), and started to do a little test mixing. I made a good consistancy (or so I thought) and added some spices. Oh crud, I realize I don't have enough oil to fry the fish. O well, I decide to broil the fish. How bad could it turn out right?? Wrong. When I pulled it out of the oven, the top of the fish looked exactly like a bisquick bisquet. The bottom looked exactly like burnt french toast. The batter was too crusty, and the inside was slimy. To top it off I set off the smoke dectectors with a horrible stinky smoke from the oven. It was a horrible experience. So to all the experimental cooks out there.... always have a backup frozen pizza in the freezer!

[Law Firm]

I hear ya Gus! It's never bad to have plan B waiting for you.

[BAIT956]

Remember your Boy Scout motto Gus, Be Prepared.

I'm a bachelor, cook all my own meal, but I always keep some hot dogs or a frozen pizza on hand in case some new venture turns into a fiasco.

I look at it as my penance for screwing up the meal.

Never have used bisquick on fish before, LOL, now I never will. Hope you had a dog to clean up the mess.

At least you had the beer. Too bad you wasted a can in the batter.

"Some people learn by observing, others by reading, then there's those people who just have to pee on the electric fence to find out for themselves".

Keep us posted on your further adventures. You could be the focus of a new reality show.

[New Yankee]

Gus, now that is funny!

[irvingdog]

*Golf clap for Gus*

That was funny, self effacing, and well written.

Bravo!

Lets have lunch. I'll cook.

[Gus]

Thanks for the replies. I was hoping to give people a chuckle at my expense and it looked like it worked. I know I laughed at myself when it all happened!

-Gus

[CALVINIST]

Gus,

Next time you better go, "sushi-style"!

I have to tell you a story of something that happened last week.

In our house, I do all the cooking, because my wife has been cursed with the "bad cooking" genes. No one has ever accused her of being a good cook, I mean, she would probably screw up making a pot of coffee. (This IS genetic, because her mom is the exact SAME way! ) Anyway, last week, I knew I had to work late one evening, so I decided to make some homemade macaroni and cheese ahead of time; that way all my wife would have to do when she got home from work is turn on the oven to 350 degrees and put the pan in at a specified time...when I got home, it would be done....easy, right? How could anyone botch a simple set of instructions such as this? So I made the stuff, covered it with plastic wrap, and refrigerated it. Then I gave my wife instructions what to do when she got home. Well, I got home from work, and we ate macaroni and cheese. then a day later, while me and the wife were loading the dishwasher, she picked up the pan that the mac and cheese was cooked in and put it in the dishwasher. Then she said to me, "You are really going to think I an a terrible cook, but I forgot to take the plastic wrap off the pan af macaroni and cheese before putting it in the oven." I looked on the outside of the pan, and sure anough, there was melted plastic all around .

So Gus, don't feel bad if you ruined your din din. I can guarantee that my wife is a worse cook than you.

[MNmikew]

LOL Calivinst! For me, I'd rather of ate the plastic than the mac&cheese. I dont know how many times I've deep fried turkeys with the giblets bag still in it.

[IFallsRon]

Serves you right for treating beer like that.

[Gus]

I should be scolded for that. I was able to drink the other 3/4'ths of the beer!!

[Pantherburn]

...nothing better than getting a belly laugh to start off your first day back after vacation. Thanks Gus!

[soldoncass]

I'll share one my wife and I "tried" a couple times and would not recommend either.

The first couple years we were married we lived farther south than we do now , so I fished for bullheads more, and they weren't bad when fried in flour. We fried up a batch a couple times and couldn't figure out why they tasted "different" and sweeter etc. We finally realized what we thought was flour was actually powdered sugar that we were using. Yuuuuccckk, we haven't been able to eat bullheads since!

[Big Julie]

My brother told me about a time his ex-wife made tater-tot hotdish.

She didn't know that she had to brown the hamburger before putting it in the casserole!

hahaha

[REEFRAKER]

This reminds me of a friend of mine who had just been married. He explained to his new bride over the phone how prepare and cook his bounty of mallards he had shot. When he got home from work something did'nt smell right. He went to the kitchen and looked into a big pot boiling away on the stove and saw his ducks fully feathered cooking in wax water. He was not a happy camper!