Thirsty Thursday: Share Your Worst Culinary Disaster!

I wanted to start a meme that I hope will be fun for my readers. You see, I am Thirsty for your answers and anecdotes. So each Thursday I am going to ask you a probing question. Just post your answer on your blog and sign into Mr. Linky below. I will come by and read your story. I also would appreciate it if in your post you would like back to Thirsty Thursday so others can join in the fun! Feel free to copy my image!

Todays Question:

What was your worst culinary disaster?

Probably my worst one...where we actually were unable to eat the food I had prepared was when I was experimenting with rice. We ate a lot of rice back in the early 90s. And I was always trying to find a way to flavor it. My grandmother had recently passed away and in cleaning out her stuff, my mom had given me a bunch of spices. Among them was a pizza spice. Now I am guessing pizza spice is probably best on pizza. But I thought I could flavor my rice with it.

That was the nastiest tasting stuff you ever want to put in your mouth...yuck! We ended up eating out. we figured we deserved it just for trying the pizza rice!

One time my oven caught fire. It was one year that I was making Thanksgiving dinner. Nanny wasn't feeling well, so we invited people here. Daniel wanted to try doing the full meal deal from Krogers. Part of that was a big old pan of green beans already seasoned and you just put them in this foil container into the oven. Well, the foil container had a hole in one end. The buttery/greasy juices leaked out of the whole and caught on fire. That added a bit of spark to our Thanksgiving that year!

So tell me about your worst culinary disaster!