Ever make a mistake when cooking dinner? Do you have a story to tell? Read mine first. LOL?

When I was a young bride and had to come home from work to make dinner, I had decided to make meatloaf. Well, it's 6:30 and It takes at least an hour to make, minus preparation. So I figured to myself, food usually cooks in half the time in a microwave. So I prepared it, put a hardboiled egg in the center of the loaf (don't ask) and i proceeded to put it in the microwave for 30 min. on high. I figured it took an hour in the oven, cut the time in half, you get 30 min..Well, when I took it out it was as hard as a brick, so I thought I'd cut through the center where it was slightly pliable. No sooner did I stick the knife in the center of the loaf where the egg was, it literally exploded. All over my kitchen walls, floor, me.

If there are any children reading this, don't try this at home.

I use cayenne pepper a lot in my rubs for meats before I grill. I also keep it very well marked as to what it is. Even though It's lighter than chili powder or paprika, one careless shake could set everyone on fire.

I have been cooking since I was 12 so most of my real bad things happened before my food was served to the 'public' - other than my family.

When I was pregnant and due at any minute, my 'nesting' mode kicked in and I decided to make cinnamon rolls.

The rolls were in the first rise, I had pretty mild labor so I thought I had about 10 hours at least, I went into hard labor in about 2 hours and delivered shortly after, after spending the night at the hospital, my boyfriend at the time, now husband came home to dough all over the counter and floor. I was feeling chilly while making the dough at the time and had turned up the heat so the kitchen was around 75-80 degrees.

My first goof was a cake. I was mixing up a cake and discovered I didn't have any shortening. There was nothing I had to replace it with except bacon grease...BAD idea. I made the cake and really yummy homemade icing. That night, after supper, we cut the cake. Into the trash can it went!

My second flub was stuffing for our first Thanksgiving together. We invited my husband's parents for the big occasion. I put so much poultry season in the stuffing that we were all chewing Tums afterward. Heartburn city!

My third mistake was my first attempt at homemade chile. Once again, his parents came, and once again, we were all chewing Tums afterward. Way too much pepper!

I think I made more mistakes in our first year of marriage than any time during our 36 years of marriage. I was afraid I was going to be the Queen of heartburn. Over the years I improved on my cooking/baking skills and I didn't kill anyone along the way.

Note: If you drop spoonfuls of mashed potatoes into hot oil...they disappear.

Two words: Rock Cake.

I was 12 and I hadn't quite gotten into the whole food chemistry thing yet when I decided to make my sister a pan of brownie cake for her birthday. I combined the ingredients (without reading the instructions, by the way) and baked in the oven.

When they came out, my sister was excited... until we tried to cut them. The knife wouldn't go through! It stuck in the middle and wouldn't come out! We jiggled it around a bit and - SNAP - the knife blade broke right off the handle and stayed in the brownies! We tried getting them out of the pan. No luck. We had to throw out both the pan and the broken knife.

What we think happened was that I didn't know about creaming the sugar and butter. So I just dumped everything in (I know. Really smart). Because we were at high altitude, there was no extra structure for the air to push up on and it collapsed into the middle. We're also pretty sure that the fact that I hadn't properly lubed up the pan was why the brownies fused to it.

I had no idea how to cook, but I made a birthday dinner for one of his pals anyway. The dessert was my first attempt at Baked Alaska. You were supposed to mold ice cream in a bowl, unmold it onto a layer cake the same size as the bowl rim. Then spread meringue on it, bake it in a hot oven for a few minutes till the meringue is hard, and douse it with brandy. Light the brandy on fire prior to serving.

Except I didn't beat the egg whites stiff enough. The meringue slid onto the flkoor immediately after lighting the brandy. It ran across the unlevelled floor of our trailer, all afire. I'll bet that guy still talks about it.

My biggest disaster was when I ran out of olive oil and had to use my vegetable oil. I kept my normal routine. Washed the pot, put it on the fire to dry. Chopped the veggies for the Red Wine and White Bean Stew. Poured the oil in the pot, which had been on the fire for about 20 minutes.

I watched helplessly as the oil caught fire.

Luckily, it burned itself out since I couldn't think.

The stupidest thing I've done was not reading the recipe prior to cooking. I had all the ingredients, but didn't realize I needed special equipment or NINE hour marinading time.

That only happened once.

I think perhaps other people have my same story: I cooked a chicken and left the bag of "giblets" inside the carcass.

I also cooked a great recipe of stuffed shrimp, but I knew nothing about seafood, and the shrimp was spoiled. Noone could even breathe, it smelled so strong. I was so embarrassed.

I was 18 back then. I am now 43 and a wonderful, conscientious cook.

When my daughter was 12, I decided she would help in the kitchen and learn how to make the Thanksgiving turkey.

I gave her directions for rubbing the turkey with butter and herbs, and was so engrossed in what I was doing that her question, "Is it okay is there's still ice in the inside of the turkey?" didn't really register. I waved her off with a "yeah, yeah."

The turkey wasn't ready at 5:00 when everything else was. It wasn't ready at 8:30 either. We just managed to make it to McDonald's before they closed! Ouch. My stupid! My daughter still teases me about the year the whole family had Big Mac's for Thanksgiving.

I was living in an apparent full of cockroaches

One day I was enthusiastic enough to decide the make a barely soup.

after spending at least 2 hours for shopping the ingredients and cooking them,

Finally When I poured the cooked delicious soup I found a nasty cockroaches on the top with its wings and legs spread.

It was an awful sight !

I've never done this but someone I know cooked one of those frozen pizzas...and forgot to take the plastic wrap off first lol!