Sunday, 11 March 2012

Screwup Saturday and confessions of a diasterchef

Once upon a time there was a Tuesday meme hosted by Bettina ~ on Screwup Tuesday people would blog how they screwed up that week and we would all have a few laughs.

At our own expense mostly.


Yesterday I made Milo muffins . The week before (see above) were perfect and gobbled down quickly.
I thought they were #failsafe - just chuck in all the ingredients - mix - bake !
Voi·la ~ eat  !

Wrong.


Yesterday I had no excuse , all the boys had gone cattle mustering, so I was left to my own de vices.
I had no one to help crack the shell in the bowl eggs  ...and so I totally forgot - until oh - about 5 secs after putting the muffins in the oven to cook !

I had turned around to clean up and saw the egg right in front of me on the bench.

I quickly grabbed them out of the oven , scooped out as much mixture as possible ,  mixed in the egg...then baked them (in new cases).

{It was lucky as much of batter had made it into the muffins as it is so delicious.}

They survived thankfully - it was the muster morning tea too.

On the top - I added Maltesers to half and m & m's to the other half  . The Maltesers were so crunchy and so moreish. The m & m's melted and the colours bled ... the kids didn't care. Due to the missing  eggscapade I forgot to take a picture so I only have last week's one.

I'm just grateful it all worked out in the end because I would have to eat them all myself otherwise :)

What is your #failsafe muffin recipe ? 
When did you last screw up a recipe ?

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Kirsty@MyHomeTruths · 681 weeks ago

Trish, how lucky were you to be able to salvage them in the end!

I'm no baker at all - I only bake GF cakes and muffins for my husband, and then usually from packet mixes!

I routinely burn out the bottom of my steamer pot and then have to wash it out a few times to get rid of the burn marks and baked on water...I'm so not culinary! Thanks so much for linking up!
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1 reply · active 681 weeks ago
Kirsty you just reminded me of my other fail - burning saucepans with steamer pot on top.
Oh no .. my failures are very public and very legion! I won't bore you again.

Good save though. That and the maltesers. That is one to remember. =)
1 reply · active 681 weeks ago
The Maltesers were the best bit , did I not mention I ate the first six because they had batter on them - had to I'm afraid.
I would probably have just eaten the mixture - sounds rather yum!
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1 reply · active 681 weeks ago
I did :0 too much of it and licked the beaters.
Oh, yum!

I have had so many failures, I no longer remember them all... I'm glad you were able to save them all...
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1 reply · active 681 weeks ago
This is just one of mine too . I won't again - learnt my lesson.
I have no failsafe muffin recipe - although I do have an excellent muffin recipe book that has rarely let me down (except for the binding - you have to shuffle through the loose pages to find which recipe you want).

My disasters, however - well, I blogged about my latest disaster last week... Nothing as lovely as milo muffins, though!
1 reply · active 681 weeks ago
Ok I caught up - I don't feel so bad now .
I forgot about my filo pastry disaster - rescued it just too.
I was planning on making spinach and feta muffins - what do you think was the issue with cheese and vegetable muffins ?
I once used plain instead of self raising flour as indicated on the recipe. That'll teach me to READ before proceeding...was wondering why my muffins didn't rise! LOL!
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I used to make muffins all of the time - used a basic recipe and then added either jam, peanut butter or yoghurt to the mix to make different ones. I havent made them in ages :)

Love the look of your muffins - wow the boys all go mustering....now that would be fun!
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