tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74859603464893976.post8009410650200927545..comments2024-02-25T04:14:21.673-08:00Comments on Life in the Land of the Rising Sun: Trial and ErrorKate Minorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10369706735791664234noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74859603464893976.post-33012401734124549992011-05-27T12:29:13.033-07:002011-05-27T12:29:13.033-07:00Oh Kate how you made me laugh!!! LOL I love it...a...Oh Kate how you made me laugh!!! LOL I love it...and yes, I certainly have my share of burnt everything! Once you return home, we will have to cook dinner together.Candicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06180661882130735390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74859603464893976.post-89800101316776580392011-05-26T13:45:32.377-07:002011-05-26T13:45:32.377-07:00Oh dear. Bagels are finicky things.
One of my wo...Oh dear. Bagels are finicky things. <br /><br />One of my worst cooking disasters was last year. All Ben's family had come down for Christmas and my sister-in-law was planning two turkeys. Now turkeys are rare birds to find here, at least in the supermarket. Since I had done a rather nice one (if I say so myself) for Thanksgiving last year, I was delegated to prepare and cook the two birds.<br /><br />Brining went well, I had them all prepped and ready to go. The problem Sarah and I were running into is they have a very small oven, we have a very small oven, our's was too far away anyways, and their's was going to be full from early morning to just enough time before to cook a turkey.<br /><br />Notice that? A turkey? A? We had two. So Sarah and I decide that putting both in a giant pan and cooking them like they're a single big bird. Well, we discovered you really shouldn't do that when it was the projected dinner time and there were two nonbrown, raw inside turkeys lurking in the oven. They ended up taking an extra 1 1/2 hours to cook, after taking one out and doing them properly one at a time. <br /><br />I was such a nervous wreck, holding back the main dish for my parents-in-law, sister-in-law's family, brother-in-law's family, great aunt, sister-in-law's mother-in-law, and friend's family (total of 15 people) who all insisted that it was all right, that I ended up going and passing out for three hours after the meal. <br /><br />tl;dr Don't treat two turkeys in one dish like one big turkey. :/Erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15877951648732862773noreply@blogger.com