Laughing Out Loud!!😂🤣 That end story of the chocolate fountain was like out of a comedy skit!! My cooking mishap was as a newly wed. I tried to bake a loaf of bread, not realizing that the yeast had expired. The bread never rose up. Looked like a brick. We wound up using it as a door stop!🍞
Loved the kitchen fail stories. Mine involved leaving brown and serve rolls in the oven too long and they became hard as rocks. The biggest insult was the kids took them outside and used them for baseballs with their whiffle bats.
1. I'm originally from Ohio many many moons ago. We were Miracle Whip people and I still am! When I tell people I eat Miracle Whip, they screw up their faces and tell me I'm nuts. I love it on a chicken sandwich/wrap-- and there's nothing like a turkey sandwich with leftover Thanksgiving turkey and Miracle Whip! 2. My go-to summer salad for decades has been tomato cucumber and red onion, but I use a balsamic vinaigrette. It's like crack to me! I recently bought Colavita balsamic vinegar, which is like fine wine compared to most grocery store vinegar!
Okay! Mine happened a few years ago at my daughters for thanksgiving! I'm a great cook and I was baking sweet potato pies that year. It's a cultural thing in black families (as opposed to pumpkin pie). After I spiced the pie with mainly nutmeg, some cinnamon, allspice, and a little cloves. I tasted the pie filling. I couldn't get it right, so I just kept adjusting it. I started to let others taste it, but we just couldn't put our finger on what was wrong. Finally, I looked at the spices,. What I thought was nutmeg had been cumin all along!!!! lol!!
My magic trick for boiling eggs is to put hem in my electric kettle and turn it on. It turns itself off when it boils and at least ten minutes later I remove the eggs from the kettle and put them in cold water.
You are hilarious! Our biggest cooking mishap actually happened to my mom when I was around 6. She was going to cook frozen pizza the night before we left for vacation. She turned on the oven to preheated and walked away. When she came back to put the pizza in, there were flames engulfing the inside of the oven. She called my dad, who used the fire extinguisher and soot and fire extinguisher dust, covered every inch of the kitchen and connecting rooms. She had forgotten she had baked cookies and left them in the oven the prior night. (So many questions around that thought process but any who) Neadless to say our vacation got canceled and we had to stay home and scrub everything. I'm now 41, and to this day, I always check inside the oven before I turn it on 😂 Oh and baking soda is an awesome fire extinguisher and way less messy 🤣
😂😂😂 We always leave pans in the oven, so we know to check inside before turning it on. I was maybe 12ish when my brother left a plastic army man in the oven. My brother was devastated he melted. More recently, I tried making homemade pizza maybe 5 years ago. It came out a half-baked mess because that's all I can make in the kitchen: a mess. Thanks for sharing your hilarious story! Take care!
@@Kim-lg5sd baking soda works amazingly well. I had a plastic bowl full of popcorn catch on fire because my sister pushed it up against a burner on the stove that had just been turned off. Half the bowl burned and made a fire almost up to the hood vent in a matter or a few seconds . I grabbed the baking soda right out of the cupboard and poured it on it and the fire went right out. Didn't damage anything. Just had a little scrubbing to do to clean up the melted plastic
Those meals looked really good. I am not the biggest potato salad person because of the mustard. If I like it without. Guess what else I don’t like for the same reason deviled eggs 🥚. Have to try some of these omitting the mustard lol. Also my husband has to have his protein aka meat with everything so I would have to add meat to the salad if it’s the main course. How’s the moving going ? Well one time I think I was making mash potatoes for my dad and you know how the milk will boil over well it did and I forgot to clean it went back to use the same burner to make something else started a little fire 🔥. I was a teenager. 😂
Cas, nothing could beat the fire extinguisher my brother gave me for my wedding shower. That was 35 years ago. No fires, but I set the fire alarm off weekly. I have to say having a smart watch with a timer is a lifesaver. I know how to cook for 20 but for the life of me I can’t cook for 3 😆.
As always, I love your end stories. I had a happy disaster. My husband cooks thanksgiving every year and a few years ago I did my first turkey. (I was 50, by the way, and yes - never cooked a turkey in my life - he cooks and I drink the beer!). Anyway, he told me how to put it in the oven and I couldn’t tell which end was up. Apparently I put it upside down. It was the moistest turkey we had to date. He was surprised it didn’t ruin it. So the next year I said, I’ll do it right this time. Oops. Upside down again. We then realized that it was moist again, so last year he did it upside down on purpose and this is our thing now. It’s way better if you put it in upside down. LOL.
That's the way I always cooked my turkey! It's SO much better and so moist that way. If you have someone who insists on crisp turkey skin, it can be turned over the last 30 minutes, but I never do. You want crisp turkey skin? YOU can cook it! Haha!!
“If you didn’t do *this,* imagine the amazingness.” 🤣😂 I 🧡🧡🧡 you and how relatable you portray yourself, Cas. THANK YOU for remaining **real.** ETA: you gave me not one, but three hearty LOLs there at the end - so, thank you. I needed that. 😅🧡
First Thanksgiving I left the bag with neck,liver,gizzard,heart inside the bird and roasted it. Of course my mother-in-law found them at the dining table
I did the same once, also with my future in-laws. Boyfriend started carving and this long, stretchy piece of melted plastic came out on the knife... looked like mozzarella cheese but wasn't, lol
My first roommate did that with a chicken that she made for dinner to impress her boyfriend, my boyfriend and me. When one of the guys started cutting into it, all this paper started appearing. I almost died laughing.
OMG! I was so happy to see Sealtest in your kitchen! My grandfather was the milkman in our area in Philly. He worked for Sealtest for like 20 yrs. When I was in grade school(elementary) we had soft pretzels and little milk or juice cartons that he delivered. He’s been gone for 26 yrs, you’ve brought back so many happy memories for me today❤❤❤❤❤
Those stories are gold!! My worst cooking mishap was when I decided to bake muffins out of an Amish cookbook when I was 12ish. My mom was out running errands when I was mixing the ingredients and got home right after I put the wonderful smelling apple banana spice muffins in the oven. Within minutes black billowing smoke started coming out of the oven and the smoke detector went off. The recipe, in a published cookbook, was missing one really important ingredient….FLOUR. It just wasn’t in there at all and I didn’t think anything of it! I quickly learned how sugar burns in the oven. I felt awful because my mom had just scrubbed the oven the week before and there was burnt black dried chunks of sugar ALL over the stove that we had to scrub by hand.
In college, I tried to make a dessert that consisted of caramelized sweet condensed milk over angel food cake, drizzled in chocolate with strawberries & whipped cream. Sounds great, right? To make the caramel, you are supposed to boil a can of sweet condensed milk for 3 hours and then cut the ends off the can and push the mostly solid caramel out of the can, slice & serve. About 2 hours in, the can exploded in my kitchen and there was hot, sticky caramel on the ceiling, the walls...everything! The recipe forgot to mention that you had to add water to the boiling pot every so often (and I lacked common sense enough to make that obvious). No matter how much I cleaned, I was still finding caramel on things months later. I've successfully made this recipe several times over the years, but I'll never forget my first time...and the explosion!
Ahahaha😂, cant ever get enough of your end stories. Been a Jamaican 🇯🇲 , grew up in NY, my family does catering, owns restaurant and i love to eat. When cooking i always try to show off but nothing like when i baked a cake for Thanksgiving and was so busy and forgot all ingredients and used just Flour and eggs. I thought i had put all ingredients in. End result was a ginormous baked hockey puck🏒 aka The Baked Rock🪨 Mom said next time dont showoff, just show all😅.
Oh my gosh, I stinkin love you!! We could totally be sisters! My biggest cooking mishap didn’t even get to the food portion of the cooking. I turned on my oven to preheat it for dinner. After about 10 minutes I started smelling something like plastic but didn’t think much of it. About 5 minutes later- my entire kitchen was full of nasty smelling black smoke! I opened the oven to a billowing of smoke and a pool of melted plastic at the bottom of my oven. I had thrown a plastic colander in there the day before when we had guest come over. We had to open all the windows and turn on all the fans to get out the toxic fumes that I had unleashed. My husband attempted to use his metal grill spatula to scrape all the melted plastic from the bottom of the oven. It worked! It worked so well that it took off the heat protective coating, meaning the oven was dangerous to use. So my mishap cost us a night of take out Chinese food and a new oven🤦♀️
I adore your videos and appreciate all you do! You certainly are not lazy - I suppose you use this to be more relatable. Thank you for your transparency.
Great stuff!! So i cracked up picturing everyone diving for cover from the chocolate 😂😂😂 Love the burnt sandwiches. Hey, just throw the tops away and tell your family they are having open faced sandwiches. 😂
Thanks for providing the free ebook of recipes for us! You're hilarious AND helpful. The baking fail I remember happened when I was about 11 years old. I made a tray of chocolate brownies for my family for dessert. I still don't know what went wrong (coz I don't really know the science of baking) but they were hard as rocks! One person tried putting a fork in their brownie and it went flying across the dining room and hit a picture on the wall. The picture fell off the wall and the glass broke. Another person tried to put a fork in theirs and it went flying into the eye of my brother, giving him a black eye! No one else tried after that. I don't believe I have ever made brownies again!
Oh my, I love your story about the chocolate fountain. 😝 The same thing happened to me when I first used the chocolate fountain my sister gave me as a birthday present. Everyone was diving and scattering but I grabbed the fountain to try to stabilize it so I got the worst of it! I think I was yelling for someone to unplug it, which happened fairly quickly but it's all a blur! So embarrassing...such a shock! It's been in the cupboard for years, but I really should try again. 😁
My makeshift double boiler was two saucepans about the same size stacked together, the bottom pan had water and the top pan had a mixture of chocolate and wax. I was melting chocolate for Christmas candy dipping when a sudden explosion sent me flying backward from the stove and onto my butt! The pans had built up pressure as they were so close to the same size, air couldn’t escape. I essentially made a pressure cooker! I was fine, maybe a bit shook, but the low pile carpet in our kitchen was destroyed…there was waxy chocolate on nearly every surface in the kitchen and it was completely melted into that carpet. I didn’t like the carpet in the kitchen anyways but I’ve learned that it’s important to invest in a proper double boiler😉
Oh Cass… you killed me with your cooking fail stories 🤣❤️ And I can totally relate to your husband being like Gordon Ramsey! 😂 My hubs is that same and always uses every bowl, utensil and a thousand paper towels that he littles the countertops with. But his meals are amazing. So I shouldn’t complain! 😊 Love your stories at the end! Always a treat! And thanks for the simple recipes for summer. I’m definitely going to try all of them!
I am not a cook - good Bad or other wise! First meal I tried to make for my now husband of 42 years - he put the mashed potatoes on top of the gravy - yes yes the potatoes were runny and the gravy was so stiff and thick! I cried for a week ! Then once I poured orange juice in a pan of frying bacon to slow down the cooking - I knew that water and oil did not mix so I thought orange juice wasn’t water - after the fire was put out and I stopped crying - we did laugh! Hey girl - I would have served those bbq chicken sliders - open face chicken Sammy’s - the birds would have got the burnt tops but the family would for sure would have been eating the rest. Let me also tell you that my retired husband and I are are learning the new kitchen dance with HELLO FRESH - we are cooking together eating wonderful different meals - love how real you are and honest
My favorite summer meal: in foil packets-- sausage, shrimp, potatoes, zucchini, small corn on cob, etc-- add butter and garlic and onions. So easy! You're hysterical!
Hi Cass, I love yr stories at the end. My baking mishap, happened when I was first married, I loved to bake, so I decided I was goin to make raisin pie. My mom used to make it, my crust came out beautiful, but the raisin filling, not so much!!! I didn’t realize mom cooked them ,first on the stove with liquid, I just dumped the bag of raisins in the pie shell, and covered it with pie crust topping, and baked it…I cut it in pieces, picked it up and raisins were all coming out everywhere, lol….Mom told that story to everyone….
Oh, Cass, everyone needs a friend like you! The only cooking fail that is coming to mind (I'm sure there were others) is the dinner that wasn't. We arrived home after church one Sunday afternoon and I was so looking forward to my nap. The previous day had been very busy and I just wanted to lay down and sleep. When we pulled up in the driveway there was, not only husband's parents but his grandmother too. Half-way up the driveway I remembered I had invited them for dinner and had totally forgotten. I don't remember what I fixed for them to eat but I do remember apologizing profusely for the state of the house. I had 4 kids and it was almost always a pretty big disaster. That was about 25 years ago before I met you. Thanks for making me a better housekeeper. As always, you are awesome!
My potato salad secret: before adding anything else to the potato mix in a few Tablespoons of plain white vinegar. It soaks in and helps the potato chunks stay crisp and delicious!
Cass I love staying until the end!!! You always have such real life stories to share. Thanks for putting yourself out there for us to enjoy and commiserate with. Have a great week ❤
Your end stories are the absolute best!!!! Thank you for the recipe book!!! ❤ My worst mishap was trying to bake a pumpkin pie for the first time with a top crust (like an apple pie). It never baked, it stayed a soupy mess 😂
7 years or so ago I got several cookbooks for my birthday from America's test kitchen. One of them is called "The best one dish suppers", that's where I first heard of sheet pan meals. There's a lot of family favorites in that book. I especially love sheet pan meals in the summer with veggies out of the garden
My biggest mishap, the first meal I ever cooked for my first husband in our own home was Swiss steak. I was so excited to show off but I used tomato paste instead of tomato sauce. (Didn’t know the difference). It was so nasty, I cried and couldn’t eat it. My brand new husband ate every bit and even drove to McDonald’s for me because I couldn’t stand it.
Thank you, Cas! This is a great video and I'm excited about the recipes. Thank you for generously sharing them with us. My biggest cooking mishap was this: Some friends and I used to have a "Sunday Night Dinner Club," where we took turns cooking. The purpose was to help us be better cooks. The rule was we had to make something new, no repeats, so although I despise fish, I tried making fish. It was disgusting and inedible and we threw it away and ate cereal. It also stunk up the entire house, which they had just put on the market, and the very next day was the open house! Despite doing everything we could think of to get rid of or at least disguise the horrible fish odor, including burning candles and baking bread, the house smelled like fish during the open house. : /
Know that feeling. Took 18 months to find out what the smell was in the pot cupboard when I was a kid. Instead of putting it in the fridge, someone put a pot back in the cupboard with a half eaten leg of lamb in it.
I'm in bed with my earbuds quietly watching before sleep...I watched till the end, like I always do....only this time I woke up my husband because I was laughing so hard!
When my husband was a grad student on a very modest stipend, I felt really clever to make a huge pot of a Woman's Day "cheap recipe" for Peanut Spaghetti Sauce. I'm understating when I say it was HORRIBLE Total waste when we couldn't afford ANY waste. Years later, in a rural town, I made a healthy WW meal with "spring onions." It was spring and the onions were the right size-but inedible. Turns out I had a package of onion SETS, for growing more onions. Who knew? Not this previously city gurl. Two experiences the family never let me forget!
Baked Alaska with the cardboard packaging still around the ice cream INSIDE the meringue (you maybe have to be old to remember icecream in cardboard packaging).
Hi Cass, just seen this video. Can understand totally with your gorgeous Bbq Chicken sliders..... just a thing I would do in my ADHD way. The worst thing I ever did recently, was having quite a number of guests in, and turned my oven on grill instead of oven....... the gorgeous little mushroom quiches were burnt...... thankfully the cauliflower bake that was underneath them was salvagable. I learnt a lesson that day!!
Great vlog Cas. Great recipe ideas. ❤I love your stories too. You are so brave telling us about your mistakes. You brighten my day with your infectious enthusiasm x
I just love you! I think one of my biggest kitchen fails was making a I think cheesecake? pie something like that and instead of grabbing the Costco sized vanilla jug to add vanilla we used the Costco sized.... SOY SAUCE jug... PUKE! It was DISGUSTING and we did not immediately figure it out... we actually were a few bites in before it dawned on us lol! Thank you for being you and sharing all your content!
I've never had any mishaps quite like yours 😂 but I do often walk out of the kitchen, forget something is cooking, and burn it to cinders. My small pan still hasn't quite recovered from the last time I burned rice. When I don't walk away, my rice is perfect.....and when I do, it's coal. 😂
My biggest cooking disaster (of which there are many) was adding dried minced onion to a casserole and the shaker top was loose. It fell, along with all the onion, into the pan. Although I tried to save the dish, all you could taste was onions…and the shaker top was found in the middle of the baked casserole…40 years later, I can still taste the onion! 😂😂
Cas, I love your channel & I'm addicted to the stories at the end. Lol!! Here are some of my biggest food fiascos... I wanted to make portabello mushroom burgers and the recipe called for soy sauce. I think it called for 4 teaspoons of soy sauce. Immediately when we started eating we both knew something was wrong... I used table spoons for the soy sauce by accident. Bless my hubby's heart because his face was red while eating it from all the salt LOL later he said he could feel his blood pressure going up but he even tried to compliment it by saying this has really good flavor if it wasn't so salty. Another was when I tried to make black bean soup... I brought it to a boil and forgot about it, the beans burned to the bottom of the pan and it looked like a thick black burned swamp. It smelled awful and I had to soak the pan for days to loosen up the burnt on stuff. Anyways, evidently i still served this to my husband and it was so awful that we dumped it out in the woods hahaha. Not even the trash can. We nicknamed it "The Black Shat Stew" hahahaha.
Threw it out into the woods... and someone somewhere is taking a photo of it, asking online, "Does anyone recognize this scat? What animal does this?" LOL!!!! Yes, I live in an area close to woods where people DO ask about... DOO! Hahahaha!!!
I was not raised to cook; I was raised to be a trophy wife. (Seriously, my mother said, the best way to keep your kitchen clean was not to use it; that's why we have restaurants.) I married a poor college student, so that was not realistic. I had to learn a lot on the job. I learned the difference between icing sugar and granulated. (That first frosting I made was just a gloopy mess.) I learned the difference between garlic powder and garlic salt. (I made a marinade with garlic salt, onion salt, and soy sauce. Yeah, WAY too salty.) I've set stoves on fire, ruined pans, and I once thought I was turning on the oven, but turned on a burner that had a glass baking dish on it. We were picking pieces of glass out of the wall for weeks. All that said, I learned and frighteningly enough, I even run a bakery now.
The buns!!! The fact that you showed them is just sooooo awesome!!!! I was crying!! You are the friend everyone would like to have!! And the shredded chicken tip is a goody!
Oh my goodness. I never laugh out loud during anyone's videos except yours! So funny!! I can't think of a mishap Ive had recently, but I remember one of my mom's 😄 She made a cherry pie for a potluck & as she ate a bite of the last slice (since everyone at the potluck had gotten the rest of it) she realized she had forgotten to get the pits out of the cherries.😅
Cass!! I seriously always forget things on broil! TIP...if youve burnt sandwiches and its not too deep use the cheesegrater and grate that burnt stuff off and carry on with the yummy lunch! weve saved many yummy sandwiches this way!
Potato salad is big in Poland where I come from. We also add chopped gerkins to it and some fresh chives. You can also turn it into veg potato salad. Just cook carrots, parsnips and celeriac root. Chopp cook veg, mix with boiled egg and potato, add chopped gherkins and also chopped fresh raw apple and green peas from a can. Apples and gherkins give potatos some kick and chrunch🙂
I love you, Cass! Thanks for being here and sharing the best stories. Biggest cooking mishap: I was heating oil to home fry some potatoes. Got distracted and heated the oil too long. I dumped in my wet, sliced potatoes and ------ FIRE! It was crazy. But, all (including the house) survived. Now, I'm much more careful and rarely fry.
Love these ideas! A great tip for quickly shredding chicken (using forks can take ages if you have a lot!) is to put it in the stand mixer. Use your paddle attachment and turn it on low. In about 30 seconds you'll have perfectly shredded chicken. I love this tip and use it all the time now.
Thank you for the summer meal ideas!! I was in charge of turkey dinner for the very first time, so my husband at the time and I, cleaned, stuffed, it got it in the oven. My family came over and my mom and sister open the oven to check the turkey and they both started laughing, so we’re looking at them asking what was so funny, well I guess we put it in the pan upside down 🤦🏻♀️ we’d never cooked a turkey before so we had no clue lol so I jokingly said well it didn’t say this side up well then we all just howled after that. It turned out great and no one died lol🤣🤣🤣
Last week i made a stupide mistake and it is costing me money (not a whole lot, but it is not funny) not cooking related, but i just want to thank you.. thank you for sharing your mistakes. İ normally would be so hard on myself and be upset for a long time. Now i have learned (trough your stories) how to deal with my mistakes much better, i know i am not alone (ofcourse i already knew, but it helps a lot to hear stories of other people).
So many fabulous ideas Cas, thank you I smiled so much at your reaction to the rolls! In Scotland, those are called "well fired rolls" and are greatly in demand. Even our local supermarket can't keep them in stock, they're grabbed as soon as they hit the shelves. They're always Hubby's treat when I do an online shop☺ A perfect partner to some yummy square lorne sausage, yes in Scotland we like our sausage square (google and you'll see😊) Sending you so many hugs from a rainy wee Scotland🤗 Huggles everyone😘❤
Hahahahaha! It only took 1 food failure for me to never again serve something for the 1st time when entertaining. I totally relate, Cas! So if you ever come to my place for dinner, you will be served something that I have made more than once. It doesn't eliminate problems, but it helps.
As a teenager, we broiled hotdogs for lunch in the lower broiler part of oven, (forgot to clean it) Later that day, we baked a cake and the oven caught fire, with leaping flames above the stove! The fire department came, and they were so nice to us kids (no parents at home) and explained where we went wrong. Thankfully, no one was hurt, and we didn't burn the house down.
Just today! I’m a seasoned cook, keep that in mind. Today was my son’s 36th birthday and I wanted to make his favorite breakfast. Eggs Benedict…making the sauce I forgot to remove the protective cover off of the stick blender so of course the eggs and butter didn’t mix. Thank goodness we had runny eggs for the sauce. All I can say it happens. Have a great day.
Been binging your videos a lot recently! (You’ve inspired me to do a full-house declutter and deep clean.) This was a great video! I loved hearing about all your favorite summer recipes. You’re so fun to watch because you’re funny and real. Thanks for sharing all your fail stories. As someone who also has ADHD, I appreciate knowing that I’m not the only one who routinely forgets things and makes silly mistakes. 😅 Keep up the great work!
OMG!!!! The chocolate fountain! How hilarious! 😂🤣🤣 It´s sounds like a movie!! 😂😆 No one will never forget THAT wedding shower.. 🤭🤗 Your salad recepies sounds wonderful, I have to try!
That chocolate fountain story!! 🤣 My kitchen mishaps always involve accidents to myself, not the food. I have a double-decker scar on my arm from burning myself with the same pan, in the exact same place, last Easter *and* Thanksgiving 🤦🙃
I make pumpkin bread from a recipe that my mom gave me, everyone loves it. I’ve been making it for years, one year I made it for our Thanksgiving dinner and my husband always has to get into it before anyone arrives, this time he was like “What did you do to the pumpkin bread!” Turns out I used the pumpkin pie filling which already had sugar and spices added and of course I added sugar and spices the way I normally did. So it was doubled. So sweet and spicy no could eat it.
These stories keep me in stitches 😂 Thank you for being so relatable. My story involves trying to cook a whole beef pot roast in the microwave. Mind you I had an actual cookbook for microwaving and needless to say it did not turn out the way the book promised. The roast was very dark and could not be cut into. Hockey pucks are more tender and edible. PSA do not “cook” a pot roast in the microwave, stick to the oven, crock pot or pressure cooker 😂
OH MY STARS!!! you are a hoot...honestly i was laughing hard...I think my worst mistake was baking a chocolate creme pie for my beau and leaving the pie liner in the pie shell....when he was eating the pie, he kept spitting out the paper...he even ate it because he didn't want to tell me.lololzzz I loved that guy...
Your videos, podcasts, and stories are freakin inspirational! Thank you for sharing your life and inspiring others to do the same! I love and admire your "keepin' it real" authenticity and transparency! Thank you!! :)
In other videos, u asked about shopping for homes. For our family, we focused most on the outside because inside is more changeable. So houses body-width away from the neighbors or near a freeway were off the list no matter how titilating the inside. This was almost 20 years ago in 2005. We are now still in the house we found in a neighborhood with all 1+ acre lots surrounded by farms. We've had room for growth with extended decking, gardens ,pool, & shed, which makes the inside so much easier to maintain and keep uncluttered. Inside, I've painted & cosmetically updated as years passed. Now, however, the kids have moved out, and we have more room than we ever imagined. At this point, fixing it up is either an investment to sell & downsize, or live out our golden years here mortgage with spare rooms for our grandchildren's sleepovers. Think long term. 😊 Much love & luck to you! ❤ I hope you're finding the right place for u & your family.
I loved cooking and baking BEFORE I had a family to cook and bake for. Now I'm over it! 😂
Same! 💯
Right there with ya, it’s a chore now 🤦♀️
I didn't mind when I had littles but now that they're teens, the bar is waaaaaay lower for sure. I am over it with ya!
Big same 😂
Me too! I still love to bake, but I'm eating low carb now to lose weight--but no baking!!
Laughing Out Loud!!😂🤣 That end story of the chocolate fountain was like out of a comedy skit!! My cooking mishap was as a newly wed. I tried to bake a loaf of bread, not realizing that the yeast had expired. The bread never rose up. Looked like a brick. We wound up using it as a door stop!🍞
Loved the kitchen fail stories. Mine involved leaving brown and serve rolls in the oven too long and they became hard as rocks. The biggest insult was the kids took them outside and used them for baseballs with their whiffle bats.
🙄Kids🤦🏾♀️
That is hilarious!
The kids! 🤣🤣🤣
Re-purposing!
At least they didn't go to waste LOL
1. I'm originally from Ohio many many moons ago. We were Miracle Whip people and I still am! When I tell people I eat Miracle Whip, they screw up their faces and tell me I'm nuts. I love it on a chicken sandwich/wrap-- and there's nothing like a turkey sandwich with leftover Thanksgiving turkey and Miracle Whip!
2. My go-to summer salad for decades has been tomato cucumber and red onion, but I use a balsamic vinaigrette. It's like crack to me! I recently bought Colavita balsamic vinegar, which is like fine wine compared to most grocery store vinegar!
Okay! Mine happened a few years ago at my daughters for thanksgiving! I'm a great cook and I was baking sweet potato pies that year. It's a cultural thing in black families (as opposed to pumpkin pie). After I spiced the pie with mainly nutmeg, some cinnamon, allspice, and a little cloves. I tasted the pie filling. I couldn't get it right, so I just kept adjusting it. I started to let others taste it, but we just couldn't put our finger on what was wrong. Finally, I looked at the spices,. What I thought was nutmeg had been cumin all along!!!! lol!!
My magic trick for boiling eggs is to put hem in my electric kettle and turn it on. It turns itself off when it boils and at least ten minutes later I remove the eggs from the kettle and put them in cold water.
You are hilarious! Our biggest cooking mishap actually happened to my mom when I was around 6. She was going to cook frozen pizza the night before we left for vacation. She turned on the oven to preheated and walked away. When she came back to put the pizza in, there were flames engulfing the inside of the oven. She called my dad, who used the fire extinguisher and soot and fire extinguisher dust, covered every inch of the kitchen and connecting rooms. She had forgotten she had baked cookies and left them in the oven the prior night. (So many questions around that thought process but any who) Neadless to say our vacation got canceled and we had to stay home and scrub everything.
I'm now 41, and to this day, I always check inside the oven before I turn it on 😂 Oh and baking soda is an awesome fire extinguisher and way less messy 🤣
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We always leave pans in the oven, so we know to check inside before turning it on.
I was maybe 12ish when my brother left a plastic army man in the oven. My brother was devastated he melted.
More recently, I tried making homemade pizza maybe 5 years ago. It came out a half-baked mess because that's all I can make in the kitchen: a mess.
Thanks for sharing your hilarious story! Take care!
Baking soda to put out a kitchen fire, that's something I never knew! Thank you.
@@Kim-lg5sd Basically what is inside a fire extinguisher.
@@Kim-lg5sd baking soda works amazingly well. I had a plastic bowl full of popcorn catch on fire because my sister pushed it up against a burner on the stove that had just been turned off. Half the bowl burned and made a fire almost up to the hood vent in a matter or a few seconds . I grabbed the baking soda right out of the cupboard and poured it on it and the fire went right out. Didn't damage anything. Just had a little scrubbing to do to clean up the melted plastic
Those meals looked really good. I am not the biggest potato salad person because of the mustard. If I like it without. Guess what else I don’t like for the same reason deviled eggs 🥚. Have to try some of these omitting the mustard lol. Also my husband has to have his protein aka meat with everything so I would have to add meat to the salad if it’s the main course. How’s the moving going ? Well one time I think I was making mash potatoes for my dad and you know how the milk will boil over well it did and I forgot to clean it went back to use the same burner to make something else started a little fire 🔥. I was a teenager. 😂
Cas, nothing could beat the fire extinguisher my brother gave me for my wedding shower. That was 35 years ago. No fires, but I set the fire alarm off weekly. I have to say having a smart watch with a timer is a lifesaver. I know how to cook for 20 but for the life of me I can’t cook for 3 😆.
As always, I love your end stories. I had a happy disaster. My husband cooks thanksgiving every year and a few years ago I did my first turkey. (I was 50, by the way, and yes - never cooked a turkey in my life - he cooks and I drink the beer!). Anyway, he told me how to put it in the oven and I couldn’t tell which end was up. Apparently I put it upside down. It was the moistest turkey we had to date. He was surprised it didn’t ruin it. So the next year I said, I’ll do it right this time. Oops. Upside down again. We then realized that it was moist again, so last year he did it upside down on purpose and this is our thing now. It’s way better if you put it in upside down. LOL.
I’ve done this for years; the turkey is so much better!
That's the way I always cooked my turkey! It's SO much better and so moist that way. If you have someone who insists on crisp turkey skin, it can be turned over the last 30 minutes, but I never do. You want crisp turkey skin? YOU can cook it! Haha!!
Because the juice from the dark meat drizzles down and permeates the white meat
I've done this for years and years, lol. I just flip it over to crisp up the skin so it's "pretty."
Absolutely, upside down.
“If you didn’t do *this,* imagine the amazingness.” 🤣😂
I 🧡🧡🧡 you and how relatable you portray yourself, Cas.
THANK YOU for remaining **real.**
ETA: you gave me not one, but three hearty LOLs there at the end - so, thank you. I needed that. 😅🧡
I'm so glad!
First Thanksgiving I left the bag with neck,liver,gizzard,heart inside the bird and roasted it. Of course my mother-in-law found them at the dining table
😂 I'm impressed you cooked a Turkey though! I would 100% be too scared if we had guests eating it.
I did the same once, also with my future in-laws. Boyfriend started carving and this long, stretchy piece of melted plastic came out on the knife... looked like mozzarella cheese but wasn't, lol
My first roommate did that with a chicken that she made for dinner to impress her boyfriend, my boyfriend and me. When one of the guys started cutting into it, all this paper started appearing. I almost died laughing.
As someone with lots of adhd scary stories... I always love your end of the show stories. Lol ❤️ Keep being you Cass.
OMG! I was so happy to see Sealtest in your kitchen! My grandfather was the milkman in our area in Philly. He worked for Sealtest for like 20 yrs. When I was in grade school(elementary) we had soft pretzels and little milk or juice cartons that he delivered. He’s been gone for 26 yrs, you’ve brought back so many happy memories for me today❤❤❤❤❤
Those stories are gold!! My worst cooking mishap was when I decided to bake muffins out of an Amish cookbook when I was 12ish. My mom was out running errands when I was mixing the ingredients and got home right after I put the wonderful smelling apple banana spice muffins in the oven. Within minutes black billowing smoke started coming out of the oven and the smoke detector went off. The recipe, in a published cookbook, was missing one really important ingredient….FLOUR. It just wasn’t in there at all and I didn’t think anything of it! I quickly learned how sugar burns in the oven. I felt awful because my mom had just scrubbed the oven the week before and there was burnt black dried chunks of sugar ALL over the stove that we had to scrub by hand.
In college, I tried to make a dessert that consisted of caramelized sweet condensed milk over angel food cake, drizzled in chocolate with strawberries & whipped cream. Sounds great, right? To make the caramel, you are supposed to boil a can of sweet condensed milk for 3 hours and then cut the ends off the can and push the mostly solid caramel out of the can, slice & serve. About 2 hours in, the can exploded in my kitchen and there was hot, sticky caramel on the ceiling, the walls...everything! The recipe forgot to mention that you had to add water to the boiling pot every so often (and I lacked common sense enough to make that obvious). No matter how much I cleaned, I was still finding caramel on things months later. I've successfully made this recipe several times over the years, but I'll never forget my first time...and the explosion!
Nooooo! I cannot even imagine!!!
I would have never had the courage to try it again!
@@annw1395 It took me a few years! I knew what I'd done wrong or I might not have tried it again.
Ahahaha😂, cant ever get enough of your end stories. Been a Jamaican 🇯🇲 , grew up in NY, my family does catering, owns restaurant and i love to eat. When cooking i always try to show off but nothing like when i baked a cake for Thanksgiving and was so busy and forgot all ingredients and used just Flour and eggs. I thought i had put all ingredients in. End result was a ginormous baked hockey puck🏒 aka The Baked Rock🪨 Mom said next time dont showoff, just show all😅.
During hockey season it could become "the cake""
Lololol that sounds like something I would do!
Haha
Oh my gosh, I stinkin love you!! We could totally be sisters!
My biggest cooking mishap didn’t even get to the food portion of the cooking. I turned on my oven to preheat it for dinner. After about 10 minutes I started smelling something like plastic but didn’t think much of it. About 5 minutes later- my entire kitchen was full of nasty smelling black smoke! I opened the oven to a billowing of smoke and a pool of melted plastic at the bottom of my oven. I had thrown a plastic colander in there the day before when we had guest come over. We had to open all the windows and turn on all the fans to get out the toxic fumes that I had unleashed. My husband attempted to use his metal grill spatula to scrape all the melted plastic from the bottom of the oven. It worked! It worked so well that it took off the heat protective coating, meaning the oven was dangerous to use. So my mishap cost us a night of take out Chinese food and a new oven🤦♀️
I adore your videos and appreciate all you do! You certainly are not lazy - I suppose you use this to be more relatable. Thank you for your transparency.
Great stuff!! So i cracked up picturing everyone diving for cover from the chocolate 😂😂😂
Love the burnt sandwiches. Hey, just throw the tops away and tell your family they are having open faced sandwiches. 😂
I was thinking the same thing!
Thanks for providing the free ebook of recipes for us! You're hilarious AND helpful. The baking fail I remember happened when I was about 11 years old. I made a tray of chocolate brownies for my family for dessert. I still don't know what went wrong (coz I don't really know the science of baking) but they were hard as rocks! One person tried putting a fork in their brownie and it went flying across the dining room and hit a picture on the wall. The picture fell off the wall and the glass broke. Another person tried to put a fork in theirs and it went flying into the eye of my brother, giving him a black eye! No one else tried after that. I don't believe I have ever made brownies again!
Oh my, I love your story about the chocolate fountain. 😝 The same thing happened to me when I first used the chocolate fountain my sister gave me as a birthday present. Everyone was diving and scattering but I grabbed the fountain to try to stabilize it so I got the worst of it! I think I was yelling for someone to unplug it, which happened fairly quickly but it's all a blur! So embarrassing...such a shock! It's been in the cupboard for years, but I really should try again. 😁
Loved your “toasty buns” story--so can relate!!!😅
My makeshift double boiler was two saucepans about the same size stacked together, the bottom pan had water and the top pan had a mixture of chocolate and wax. I was melting chocolate for Christmas candy dipping when a sudden explosion sent me flying backward from the stove and onto my butt! The pans had built up pressure as they were so close to the same size, air couldn’t escape. I essentially made a pressure cooker! I was fine, maybe a bit shook, but the low pile carpet in our kitchen was destroyed…there was waxy chocolate on nearly every surface in the kitchen and it was completely melted into that carpet. I didn’t like the carpet in the kitchen anyways but I’ve learned that it’s important to invest in a proper double boiler😉
Lol I always just put a metal bowl over a sauce pan. It floats on top and because its not inside the pot, there is no pressure build up
One of my least favorite things to do is to stop and cook supper when I am knee-deep in decluttering and organizing, so thank you so much for this!💗💗💗
Oh Cass… you killed me with your cooking fail stories 🤣❤️ And I can totally relate to your husband being like Gordon Ramsey! 😂 My hubs is that same and always uses every bowl, utensil and a thousand paper towels that he littles the countertops with. But his meals are amazing. So I shouldn’t complain! 😊 Love your stories at the end! Always a treat! And thanks for the simple recipes for summer. I’m definitely going to try all of them!
I am not a cook - good Bad or other wise! First meal I tried to make for my now husband of 42 years - he put the mashed potatoes on top of the gravy - yes yes the potatoes were runny and the gravy was so stiff and thick! I cried for a week ! Then once I poured orange juice in a pan of frying bacon to slow down the cooking - I knew that water and oil did not mix so I thought orange juice wasn’t water - after the fire was put out and I stopped crying - we did laugh! Hey girl - I would have served those bbq chicken sliders - open face chicken Sammy’s - the birds would have got the burnt tops but the family would for sure would have been eating the rest. Let me also tell you that my retired husband and I are are learning the new kitchen dance with HELLO FRESH - we are cooking together eating wonderful different meals - love how real you are and honest
My favorite summer meal: in foil packets-- sausage, shrimp, potatoes, zucchini, small corn on cob, etc-- add butter and garlic and onions. So easy!
You're hysterical!
Potato salad: Douse hot potatoes with vinegar before adding other items. Also add a bit of tarragon.
Hi Cass, I love yr stories at the end. My baking mishap, happened when I was first married, I loved to bake, so I decided I was goin to make raisin pie. My mom used to make it, my crust came out beautiful, but the raisin filling, not so much!!! I didn’t realize mom cooked them ,first on the stove with liquid, I just dumped the bag of raisins in the pie shell, and covered it with pie crust topping, and baked it…I cut it in pieces, picked it up and raisins were all coming out everywhere, lol….Mom told that story to everyone….
Oh, Cass, everyone needs a friend like you! The only cooking fail that is coming to mind (I'm sure there were others) is the dinner that wasn't. We arrived home after church one Sunday afternoon and I was so looking forward to my nap. The previous day had been very busy and I just wanted to lay down and sleep. When we pulled up in the driveway there was, not only husband's parents but his grandmother too. Half-way up the driveway I remembered I had invited them for dinner and had totally forgotten. I don't remember what I fixed for them to eat but I do remember apologizing profusely for the state of the house. I had 4 kids and it was almost always a pretty big disaster. That was about 25 years ago before I met you. Thanks for making me a better housekeeper. As always, you are awesome!
My potato salad secret: before adding anything else to the potato mix in a few Tablespoons of plain white vinegar. It soaks in and helps the potato chunks stay crisp and delicious!
Cass I love staying until the end!!! You always have such real life stories to share. Thanks for putting yourself out there for us to enjoy and commiserate with. Have a great week ❤
Your end stories are the absolute best!!!! Thank you for the recipe book!!! ❤ My worst mishap was trying to bake a pumpkin pie for the first time with a top crust (like an apple pie). It never baked, it stayed a soupy mess 😂
Welll, I guess that explains why I've never seen a pumpkin pie with a top crust! 😅 Thanks for finding out on my behalf, lol!
7 years or so ago I got several cookbooks for my birthday from America's test kitchen. One of them is called "The best one dish suppers", that's where I first heard of sheet pan meals. There's a lot of family favorites in that book.
I especially love sheet pan meals in the summer with veggies out of the garden
My biggest mishap, the first meal I ever cooked for my first husband in our own home was Swiss steak. I was so excited to show off but I used tomato paste instead of tomato sauce. (Didn’t know the difference). It was so nasty, I cried and couldn’t eat it. My brand new husband ate every bit and even drove to McDonald’s for me because I couldn’t stand it.
Thank you, Cas! This is a great video and I'm excited about the recipes. Thank you for generously sharing them with us. My biggest cooking mishap was this: Some friends and I used to have a "Sunday Night Dinner Club," where we took turns cooking. The purpose was to help us be better cooks. The rule was we had to make something new, no repeats, so although I despise fish, I tried making fish. It was disgusting and inedible and we threw it away and ate cereal. It also stunk up the entire house, which they had just put on the market, and the very next day was the open house! Despite doing everything we could think of to get rid of or at least disguise the horrible fish odor, including burning candles and baking bread, the house smelled like fish during the open house. : /
Know that feeling. Took 18 months to find out what the smell was in the pot cupboard when I was a kid. Instead of putting it in the fridge, someone put a pot back in the cupboard with a half eaten leg of lamb in it.
@@HappyHarryX5 Hahahah
I'm in bed with my earbuds quietly watching before sleep...I watched till the end, like I always do....only this time I woke up my husband because I was laughing so hard!
Hi Cass 👋🏻
My husband is the gourmet chef too. I'm the everyday cook. I cook 90% of the time but i always look forward to my husband's creations. 😊
Speed shred chicken with hand held mixer right in the instapot. It requires a min of courage, but it totally works.
When my husband was a grad student on a very modest stipend, I felt really clever to make a huge pot of a Woman's Day "cheap recipe" for Peanut Spaghetti Sauce. I'm understating when I say it was HORRIBLE Total waste when we couldn't afford ANY waste. Years later, in a rural town, I made a healthy WW meal with "spring onions." It was spring and the onions were the right size-but inedible. Turns out I had a package of onion SETS, for growing more onions. Who knew? Not this previously city gurl. Two experiences the family never let me forget!
Baked Alaska with the cardboard packaging still around the ice cream INSIDE the meringue (you maybe have to be old to remember icecream in cardboard packaging).
This wasn’t weird it was amazing!! Perfect timing. You don’t have enough room here for me to share all my cooking mishaps. 😂😂😂
Hi Cass, just seen this video. Can understand totally with your gorgeous Bbq Chicken sliders..... just a thing I would do in my ADHD way. The worst thing I ever did recently, was having quite a number of guests in, and turned my oven on grill instead of oven....... the gorgeous little mushroom quiches were burnt...... thankfully the cauliflower bake that was underneath them was salvagable. I learnt a lesson that day!!
Great vlog Cas. Great recipe ideas. ❤I love your stories too. You are so brave telling us about your mistakes. You brighten my day with your infectious enthusiasm x
I just love you!
I think one of my biggest kitchen fails was making a I think cheesecake? pie something like that and instead of grabbing the Costco sized vanilla jug to add vanilla we used the Costco sized.... SOY SAUCE jug... PUKE! It was DISGUSTING and we did not immediately figure it out... we actually were a few bites in before it dawned on us lol!
Thank you for being you and sharing all your content!
I've never had any mishaps quite like yours 😂 but I do often walk out of the kitchen, forget something is cooking, and burn it to cinders. My small pan still hasn't quite recovered from the last time I burned rice. When I don't walk away, my rice is perfect.....and when I do, it's coal. 😂
My biggest cooking disaster (of which there are many) was adding dried minced onion to a casserole and the shaker top was loose. It fell, along with all the onion, into the pan. Although I tried to save the dish, all you could taste was onions…and the shaker top was found in the middle of the baked casserole…40 years later, I can still taste the onion! 😂😂
Cas, I love your channel & I'm addicted to the stories at the end. Lol!! Here are some of my biggest food fiascos...
I wanted to make portabello mushroom burgers and the recipe called for soy sauce. I think it called for 4 teaspoons of soy sauce. Immediately when we started eating we both knew something was wrong... I used table spoons for the soy sauce by accident. Bless my hubby's heart because his face was red while eating it from all the salt LOL later he said he could feel his blood pressure going up but he even tried to compliment it by saying this has really good flavor if it wasn't so salty.
Another was when I tried to make black bean soup... I brought it to a boil and forgot about it, the beans burned to the bottom of the pan and it looked like a thick black burned swamp. It smelled awful and I had to soak the pan for days to loosen up the burnt on stuff. Anyways, evidently i still served this to my husband and it was so awful that we dumped it out in the woods hahaha. Not even the trash can. We nicknamed it "The Black Shat Stew" hahahaha.
I actually laughed out loud (well, snorted would be more accurate) when you said you threw it out in the woods!
Threw it out into the woods... and someone somewhere is taking a photo of it, asking online, "Does anyone recognize this scat? What animal does this?" LOL!!!! Yes, I live in an area close to woods where people DO ask about... DOO! Hahahaha!!!
😂😂😂 I’ll never look at a chocolate fountain again without a chuckle!
Thank you for the amazing summer recipes. 😊
I love you Cass! You make my day. I was making a cake and I had long hair. I’m not sure how I did it, I got my hair caught in the mixer beaters.
I was not raised to cook; I was raised to be a trophy wife. (Seriously, my mother said, the best way to keep your kitchen clean was not to use it; that's why we have restaurants.) I married a poor college student, so that was not realistic. I had to learn a lot on the job. I learned the difference between icing sugar and granulated. (That first frosting I made was just a gloopy mess.) I learned the difference between garlic powder and garlic salt. (I made a marinade with garlic salt, onion salt, and soy sauce. Yeah, WAY too salty.) I've set stoves on fire, ruined pans, and I once thought I was turning on the oven, but turned on a burner that had a glass baking dish on it. We were picking pieces of glass out of the wall for weeks.
All that said, I learned and frighteningly enough, I even run a bakery now.
The buns!!! The fact that you showed them is just sooooo awesome!!!! I was crying!! You are the friend everyone would like to have!! And the shredded chicken tip is a goody!
I also burn everything that I try to cook on the stove- the installer and timers are my best kitchen helpers!
Oh my goodness. I never laugh out loud during anyone's videos except yours! So funny!! I can't think of a mishap Ive had recently, but I remember one of my mom's 😄 She made a cherry pie for a potluck & as she ate a bite of the last slice (since everyone at the potluck had gotten the rest of it) she realized she had forgotten to get the pits out of the cherries.😅
Cass!! I seriously always forget things on broil! TIP...if youve burnt sandwiches and its not too deep use the cheesegrater and grate that burnt stuff off and carry on with the yummy lunch! weve saved many yummy sandwiches this way!
Great tip!
Potato salad is big in Poland where I come from. We also add chopped gerkins to it and some fresh chives. You can also turn it into veg potato salad. Just cook carrots, parsnips and celeriac root. Chopp cook veg, mix with boiled egg and potato, add chopped gherkins and also chopped fresh raw apple and green peas from a can. Apples and gherkins give potatos some kick and chrunch🙂
Love the realness of you showing us the over cooked sliders 😂. Plenty of great ideas in this video, love it!
😂 I live for your stories! Thank you for being so real with us, it helps us to know we’re not the only ones. ❤
I really appreciate a mishap displayed when you expect the most perfect dish. Thank you!!!
You're welcome!
Hello Cass, thanks so much for the e book. Great recipes to try.
My husband says your channel should be called the Declutterbug!
Love your videos.
Lol!
You are the best. Don’t think I can top your stories. And you tell them the best!
Haven’t even started watching, but love it already 😂🎉 Cass gets it
Stop affirming something negative over yourself. You are not lazy you are hard working!❤
I love you, Cass! Thanks for being here and sharing the best stories.
Biggest cooking mishap: I was heating oil to home fry some potatoes. Got distracted and heated the oil too long. I dumped in my wet, sliced potatoes and ------ FIRE! It was crazy. But, all (including the house) survived. Now, I'm much more careful and rarely fry.
Glad everything was ok!
My mom puts some pickle juice and diced up pickles in her potato salad. It is the best.
Love these ideas! A great tip for quickly shredding chicken (using forks can take ages if you have a lot!) is to put it in the stand mixer. Use your paddle attachment and turn it on low. In about 30 seconds you'll have perfectly shredded chicken. I love this tip and use it all the time now.
I was baking cookies and I grabbed the Cumin instead of Cinnamon 😮
Love & prayers ❤️ 🙏🏻
I love you Cas!
Thank you for the meal ideas. But those kitchen, food disasters are FUNNY 😂
You are my favorite comedienne, Cas! The chocolate fountain story 🤣
Thank you for the summer meal ideas!!
I was in charge of turkey dinner for the very first time, so my husband at the time and I, cleaned, stuffed, it got it in the oven. My family came over and my mom and sister open the oven to check the turkey and they both started laughing, so we’re looking at them asking what was so funny, well I guess we put it in the pan upside down 🤦🏻♀️ we’d never cooked a turkey before so we had no clue lol so I jokingly said well it didn’t say this side up well then we all just howled after that. It turned out great and no one died lol🤣🤣🤣
Lol!
You just made a Greek village salad spot on . Adding Greek dressing and feta .
Cas, your stories at the end are the best! You always have me laughing!
Last week i made a stupide mistake and it is costing me money (not a whole lot, but it is not funny) not cooking related, but i just want to thank you.. thank you for sharing your mistakes. İ normally would be so hard on myself and be upset for a long time. Now i have learned (trough your stories) how to deal with my mistakes much better, i know i am not alone (ofcourse i already knew, but it helps a lot to hear stories of other people).
You're so welcome!
Ooh cas your end stories kill me lol
Thanks for the summer cookbook ❤
So many fabulous ideas Cas, thank you I smiled so much at your reaction to the rolls! In Scotland, those are called "well fired rolls" and are greatly in demand. Even our local supermarket can't keep them in stock, they're grabbed as soon as they hit the shelves. They're always Hubby's treat when I do an online shop☺ A perfect partner to some yummy square lorne sausage, yes in Scotland we like our sausage square (google and you'll see😊) Sending you so many hugs from a rainy wee Scotland🤗 Huggles everyone😘❤
Don't eat those rolls, the burnt parts can cause cancer 😢. Avoid anything too roasted including toast. 😊
I am just picturing the scene of the chocolate lava on everyone! 🤣🤣🤣 Love your style, your tricks and your stories dear Cas! 🙂🙃
Why do most of her videos have 3 times as many views and likes as subs? Come on guys, she’s so amazing, help out for more!!
Please, more simple recipes! These were the best and I am going shopping tonight for some ingredients that you recommended!
Hahahahaha! It only took 1 food failure for me to never again serve something for the 1st time when entertaining. I totally relate, Cas! So if you ever come to my place for dinner, you will be served something that I have made more than once. It doesn't eliminate problems, but it helps.
As a teenager, we broiled hotdogs for lunch in the lower broiler part of oven, (forgot to clean it) Later that day, we baked a cake and the oven caught fire, with leaping flames above the stove! The fire department came, and they were so nice to us kids (no parents at home) and explained where we went wrong. Thankfully, no one was hurt, and we didn't burn the house down.
Just today! I’m a seasoned cook, keep that in mind. Today was my son’s 36th birthday and I wanted to make his favorite breakfast. Eggs Benedict…making the sauce I forgot to remove the protective cover off of the stick blender so of course the eggs and butter didn’t mix. Thank goodness we had runny eggs for the sauce. All I can say it happens. Have a great day.
Been binging your videos a lot recently! (You’ve inspired me to do a full-house declutter and deep clean.) This was a great video! I loved hearing about all your favorite summer recipes. You’re so fun to watch because you’re funny and real. Thanks for sharing all your fail stories. As someone who also has ADHD, I appreciate knowing that I’m not the only one who routinely forgets things and makes silly mistakes. 😅 Keep up the great work!
I have to say I would’ve sliced cucumber lengths ways first and quarters Then Stack them together and chop
OMG!!!! The chocolate fountain! How hilarious! 😂🤣🤣 It´s sounds like a movie!! 😂😆 No one will never forget THAT wedding shower.. 🤭🤗 Your salad recepies sounds wonderful, I have to try!
Thankyou. I used miracle whip and ranch in my potato salad.
Omg! I had to actually lol when you told the chocolate fondue story! HILARIOUS!!! thanks ❤
That chocolate fountain story!! 🤣 My kitchen mishaps always involve accidents to myself, not the food. I have a double-decker scar on my arm from burning myself with the same pan, in the exact same place, last Easter *and* Thanksgiving 🤦🙃
THAT is talent! LOL
I love your real and crazy fun stories of cooking mishaps.
I loved your chocolate story. You’re a one-of-a-kind gem!
Thanks!
You are amazing Cass! And hilarious as well. Thanks for the FREE recipe book.
Free recipes??? SCORE! Thank you. And, when I burn something because I get distracted, we call it Cajun Food. You know, because it's blackened.😂
I make pumpkin bread from a recipe that my mom gave me, everyone loves it. I’ve been making it for years, one year I made it for our Thanksgiving dinner and my husband always has to get into it before anyone arrives, this time he was like “What did you do to the pumpkin bread!” Turns out I used the pumpkin pie filling which already had sugar and spices added and of course I added sugar and spices the way I normally did. So it was doubled. So sweet and spicy no could eat it.
Honey mustard on a strawberry pecan salad, YUM!
These stories keep me in stitches 😂 Thank you for being so relatable. My story involves trying to cook a whole beef pot roast in the microwave. Mind you I had an actual cookbook for microwaving and needless to say it did not turn out the way the book promised. The roast was very dark and could not be cut into. Hockey pucks are more tender and edible. PSA do not “cook” a pot roast in the microwave, stick to the oven, crock pot or pressure cooker 😂
OH MY STARS!!! you are a hoot...honestly i was laughing hard...I think my worst mistake was baking a chocolate creme pie for my beau and leaving the pie liner in the pie shell....when he was eating the pie, he kept spitting out the paper...he even ate it because he didn't want to tell me.lololzzz I loved that guy...
I love your videos and your sense of humor. You are always so kind, positive and generous. I wish I knew you in real life! Thanks for the recipes.
You're welcome!
I love the end stories. Oh, I have made things that have gone over the edge all over the bottom of the oven, etc.
Your videos, podcasts, and stories are freakin inspirational! Thank you for sharing your life and inspiring others to do the same! I love and admire your "keepin' it real" authenticity and transparency! Thank you!! :)
The chocolate fountain ⛲️ had me literally laughing out loud! So glad I stayed till the end!! I can't wait to try your salad recipes! Thank you!
In other videos, u asked about shopping for homes. For our family, we focused most on the outside because inside is more changeable. So houses body-width away from the neighbors or near a freeway were off the list no matter how titilating the inside. This was almost 20 years ago in 2005. We are now still in the house we found in a neighborhood with all 1+ acre lots surrounded by farms. We've had room for growth with extended decking, gardens ,pool, & shed, which makes the inside so much easier to maintain and keep uncluttered. Inside, I've painted & cosmetically updated as years passed. Now, however, the kids have moved out, and we have more room than we ever imagined. At this point, fixing it up is either an investment to sell & downsize, or live out our golden years here mortgage with spare rooms for our grandchildren's sleepovers. Think long term. 😊 Much love & luck to you! ❤ I hope you're finding the right place for u & your family.
*mortgage-free
Forgot to mention, I have a small, modest 3 bedroom house.