The Laws of Big Cooking

[madlori]

There are certain times when we end up doing Big Cooking. Holidays, dinner parties, Christmas cookies, you know the drill. If you're like me, and I know I am, certain things will always, always happen while you are preparing for and executing the Big Cooking. So I'm compiling my personally observed Laws of Big Cooking, with an addendum for how

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[lizzied]

I am reading this in the car on the way to my husband's family for the holidays. I had to read this out loud so he could laugh at it too. Thanks for laugh. The one thing I would add is buying the wrong type of items. whole walnuts do not work in pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.

[shygryf]

No matter how carefully you time things, something will be done far later than it should be

[irinaauthor]

The batter for my homemade marshmallows came out with the texture of sweet vanilla spackle. They're fine-ish now that they've dried overnight: dense instead of light and airy like they should've been (and for the life of me I can't figure out what went wrong) but the flavor is okay and I'm just melting them in hot chocolate anyway, but holy crap. I have never encountered anything so sticky in my life. Not to be gross, but it was like wrangling a gigantic lump of chewed bubblegum. It stuck to everything and got everywhere, even on my feet (and I have no idea how it wound up there). I'm so glad Steve was asleep when I was making them last night, because the mess would've given him a heart attack. He'd have died, right there and then

[windstar]

I made 4 trips to the grocery today. First we went to buy the stuff to make a pecan pie...then we had to go get pecans because I could have sworn I had them...then we had to go back and get pie crusts (I can't make them myself, it just doesn't work)...then eggs (seems to be a recurrent theme.

However, everything is ready now, assuming Schwan's has the turkey breast on the truck like they are supposed to. We only have a couple of meat eaters in our house...

[corinnethewise]

This is my first thanksgiving that I'm hostessing, which is very exciting and soooooooooo much work. I've been cooking all day and getting stuff ready. I'm waiting for stuff to start going wrong (other than not having a proper strainer and having a very very very very difficult time straining the quinoa) Fingers crossed.