I’ll never forget this one Thanksgiving. It’s the sole reason why I avoided using glass bake ware for so long. One Thanksgiving, me and Grandma were running a bit behind. Grandma still hadn’t gotten cleaned up yet. Everyone was coming for dinner and for Grandma’s famous dressing and turkey and ham and pies and oh, my stomach is grumbling! And then it happened. The dressing exploded.
It exploded all over the stove. It was running down the front of cabinets. Dressing was on the floor. Dressing was seriously everwhere. I’ve never known grandma to load her dressing with TNT, so it was that darn glass container. Grandma had pulled the dressing from the oven. The dish was getting hot on her hands, or too heavy, or maybe we pulled it out without clearing a spot first. I don’t remember. So she sat it down, turned and closed the oven door and when she went to pick it back up, it exploded. Aside from there being dressing piled on the stove, we couldn’t use any of it because the glass completely shattered. NO DRESSING FOR THANKSGIVING!! That’s just un-American where I come from.
But whew. Grandma made extra that year. She jerked out a new pan and shoved it in the oven. Yeah! Thanksgiving was saved. But there was still dressing all over the place and we really needed the stove. We’re raking it off in the trash by serving spoons and Grandma’s getting a bit irritated because, as I said before, she’s not dressed, as in, she’s still in her p.j.’s and family’s due any moment. She runs and gets here vacuum cleaner. Yep. We suck up that dressing and glass through a vacuum cleaner hose.
I finish with the clean up. Grandma runs and changes. We still managed to get that dinner out on time and if we hadn’t told, nobody would have known the first batch of dressing exploded.
So tell me about your disasters in the kitchen–Thanksgiving morning or otherwise!
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You made me laugh and remember the year that Grandma got a new oven. She didn’t know how to work it (thought she did though). She put the turkey in and never turned on the oven! If I remember correctly (and it was a long time ago), I believe she was cooking it early in the morning to “free up the oven” for dressing, etc. When she checked on the turkey to see how it come coming along, it was cold and raw! LOL
And then there was the year my sister-in-law decided she would cook the family turkey. It was sort of “raw and pink” inside. We kept nuking slices before we served them. I ate ham.
I think I would have ate ham, too! And I’m so impatient, i know I would have made some brownies or something to test out the new oven!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!