TASTY QUICK & EASY MEAL IDEAS | MY FAV CHEAP DINNER RECIPES
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- MY DINNER FAVORITES | TASTY QUICK & EASY MEAL IDEAS | CHEAPER DINNER RECIPES. These fast and easy summer meal recipes can be ready in minutes and save you money too!
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00:00 Introduction
01:07 Summer Salads
07:03 Shredded Chicken Meals
09:32 Hello Fresh Ad
10:36 Summer Pasta Meals
11:52 Sheet Pan Dinner
13:14 End Story
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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!!
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
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!🍞
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.
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.
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.😂
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!
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. 😂
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!!
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 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.
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
When I was in my 20's, one night I put some eggs on to boil for egg salad. Then forgot about it and went to bed. My husband happened to go downstairs (thankfully) and noticed the smoke and exploded eggs on the ceiling...
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.
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!
As someone with lots of adhd scary stories... I always love your end of the show stories. Lol ❤️ Keep being you Cass.
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.
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❤❤❤❤❤
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 😆.
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 needed a laugh today. My biggest cooking disaster is when I found my husband's dead Father's recipe book. I wanted to make something for my husband. So I saw a doughball recipe thinking it was a dessert I could make for Christmas dinner. It was nasty. Turns out it was his catfish bait recipe lol major fail. My oldest son loved it though lol.
This was laugh out loud funny!!!
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.
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!
“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!
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. 😊
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!
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!
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! 😂😂
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. 😂
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!
Stop affirming something negative over yourself. You are not lazy you are hard working!❤
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!
Thank you for your quick and easy hard boiled egg advice. I wish I had it back in 1993… I put eggs on the stove to hard boil. I knew a watched pot didn’t boil and signing on dial-up internet could take a few minutes. To my surprise I signed on quickly and was checking my e-mail. Next thing I knew I heard BOOM!!BOOM!! BOOM!! My dad, fiance and I all went running into the kitchen. All the water boiled out of the pan and eggs exploded onto the kitchen ceiling!
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.
@@fionaschiffl8065 Hahahah
The craziest thing I've ever done as the kitchen is accidentally coat the chicken legs in cayenne pepper instead of paprika. My husband and I were eating it and I was absolutely dying, practically frothing at the mouth. I couldn't understand why it wasn't spicy to him and also why it was even spicy in the first place to me because I love paprika. Turns out, he and his buddies at work had tried a whole bunch of ghost peppers earlier so his tongue was already fried and he couldn't even tell 😅🤣
This wasn’t weird it was amazing!! Perfect timing. You don’t have enough room here for me to share all my cooking mishaps. 😂😂😂
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
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).
LOL, Love the end story!!! I was a NewlyWed, I tried making this special dish that my Aunt used to make. A white cream sauce with fresh peas and Keilbasa. Well, my sauce didn't quite turn out right, I thought it was NASTY and WAY too thick! New hubby said, "Oh, it's fine, tastes great"! Well, I wanted to throw it out, NOPE, I'll eat it tomorrow too! Yikes. I ended up throwing it out, it was just SO gross! Years later..... he told everyone about my WALL PAPER PASTE!!!!! 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
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!
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!💗💗💗
Love you - so freakin’ funny. When my husband of 31 years was just my boyfriend, I decided to make him dinner. The baked fish finished before everything else, so I kept squeezing lemon juice on it in the oven to “keep it moist.” His lips had never puckered so much!! 😂
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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.
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 ❤
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!!
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.
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
I was making waffles for my family as a newly married woman. I forgot about the last waffle and it burnt. My Dad snuck it home, framed it and gave it to me for Christmas. And yes, I hung it in our apartment kitchen 😂
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That's hilarious!! You and your dad are awesome 😂
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!
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!
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!
Potato salad: Douse hot potatoes with vinegar before adding other items. Also add a bit of tarragon.
😂😂😂 I’ll never look at a chocolate fountain again without a chuckle!
Thank you for the amazing summer recipes. 😊
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!!!
Could anyone top your fabulous-for-a-laugh-afterwards disaster stories? No, you deserve your own YT channel and the fun for everyone to feel better about their own disasters. Those were hilarious!
Glad you think so!
So I have a hack for you to make your potato salad even easier. Put your potato chunks in the instant pot (you can use a steamer basket if you want, or skip it; I've done it both ways), put your eggs in there on top of the potatoes, and cook the whole mess on steam for 7 minutes. Give it a few minutes (5 or so, we all know half the time I get distracted and give it 15 😂), then move the eggs to an ice bath with tongs or whatever, and move on as usual. Saves you a pot, and possibly some time, and the eggs usually peel really well.
P.S., put a cup of water in the IP with that stuff, for anyone who doesn't already know. 😂
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….
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.
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. 😊
Love the realness of you showing us the over cooked sliders 😂. Plenty of great ideas in this video, love it!
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!
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🙂
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.😅
I once added ten times the amount of vinegar that was requested to my lovely strawberry gazpacho (cold soup). We had a laugh about it and I handed it out to the neighbours as salad dressing. My friend said it was the nicest salad dressing ever.
Hahahaha!
Want to save even more time shredding your cooked chicken breasts? My mom’s favorite trick: Throw a couple at a time into the stand mixer with the paddle attachment. A minute or so on low speed and it’s completely shredded and ready to use.
You put Lucille Ball to shame , I love it ,thank you Cass!!!!!!
As someone with ADHD, you are my inspiration. Thanks for keeping it real.
When I was first married, I made a tuna casserole for dinner….because that’s what we did in the early 90’s…lots of casseroles!
Anyway, we are eating it and my husband says “What did you say this was?”
I said Tuna Casserole.
He replied “Did you put tuna in it?”
Nope…I had forgotten the tuna! 🤪
Speed shred chicken with hand held mixer right in the instapot. It requires a min of courage, but it totally works.
Cass, I love you show you so real thank you for the quick recipes I love your and stories I stay watching the whole thing just to hear you what happened today till this day..My brother doesn’t let me forget one time for Thanksgiving. Everybody was making a meal somehow I can’t remember I was running late. Let me just start by saying my first language is Spanish. I go to the grocery store I bought freshDough to make. Stuff bread with chicken and cheese inside and I grabbed the cans. Don’t ask me why but it said chicken in the sea. Guess what? It was tuna when everybody tried it then there like oh you put tuna Iam like no it’s chicken in the sea..and they’re like oh my God, everybody was laughing, and I was so upset because I was like is chicken in the sea they like no that’s the brand name is tuna, 😂
My mom puts some pickle juice and diced up pickles in her potato salad. It is the best.
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...
Two 8-year-olds, my neighbor & I, baked my dad a pie. No nut meats? NO Problem; we used Nutmeg! We could read after all, and it sounded almost the same. Just didn't have a full 1/2 cup but we used all we had. Close enough, we thought. When he died (at 90) I don't believe he had yet forgiven me for that first (and last) bite. 🥧🤣😂
Watching this at work while finishing my lunch, and I should know better than to watch your end story in a space where I need to be quiet and composed 😂😂😂
I also burn everything that I try to cook on the stove- the installer and timers are my best kitchen helpers!
What a fabulous chocolate fountain story. As a new mum I put on the soup maker and went out with my baby feeling amazing because I managed to leave the house with my baby and dinner would be ready when I got home. I get home to find my whole kitchen covered in pumpkin soup. I had left the centre of the lid in soup maker. When soup was cooked the blades went to work and sent soup flying everywhere and destroyed the soup maker.
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!
Hot tip I think you'll love: when you make shredded chicken, once the chicken is cooked in the pressure cooker, take an elective whisp and whisp the chicken into shreds directly in the bowl.
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!
Dying laughing at the chocolate fountain incident!
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
When I first started to bake more, I made a pumpkin pie. Problem was, I assumed that you could use ornamental carving pumpkins, and that would be ok. They’re grown more for decoration. The sweet, smaller pumpkins with more flavor are grown for pumpkin pie. Of course, I didn’t find out that info until smart phones became commonplace about 10 years after that. Needless to say, the pie was strange, the texture was weird, and it was not that good. I remember someone asked why I didn’t just get canned pumpkin lol. I thought it would be better with fresh pumpkin, but I had the wrong type for sure.
I did same.
😂😂 that story of your wedding shower made me cry with laughter. 😂
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. 😁
🤣🤣🤣 Cas, I had a strong feeling that was going to happen with your buns! have burnt so many things when broiling. My middle daughter is always reminding me about actually catching coconut on fire and running the baking sheet out the front door. I never knew until recently that it was due to my ADHD. ❤
Thanks for sharing!
I love you Cas!
Thank you for the meal ideas. But those kitchen, food disasters are FUNNY 😂
My mom was a Home Economics teacher. She was very “inside the box” in life and in teaching. How I ended up so creatively “out of the box”, I’ll never know! She was nearly perfect. Not me! My creative disasters ended up as stories she passed on to her students…MY FRIENDS!!! Like the time I was baking my own birthday cake, thought I would swirl together pink and blue batter, and it ended up being the ugliest shade of grey! My mom baked me a new one for my birthday party, but all of my friends and most of the girls in the school found out about it anyway BECAUSE SHE TOLD THEM! In later years she praised my creativity, even the fails.
And you don’t have to have ADHD to grab the wrong thing out your baking cabinet! As a newlywed, I grabbed a small box of powdered sugar instead of corn starch to thicken my gravy! My beloved husband still ate the sickeningly sweet watery goop
on his potatoes!
😂 Such a sweet husband!
@@kristinclemenson9422 Oh, he was!
Sadly, he died on Mother’s Day 2021. But, equally as out of the box as I was, we made a great team! He used to joke that God had to put us together because no one else could have stood us!😂 He was actually more creative in the kitchen than I was! And when I’m wondering about doing something, I hear his voice in my head saying, “You go ahead and do it, Honey! You know best.” Besides being a sweetheart, he was also patient, and forgiving!😇🥰
😂 love it!! I wake up and want to make some boiled eggs my kids love them, I put them in water turn on the stove,back to the room and started cleaning my room and the bathroom after, (ADHD) my kids already playing in the family room, and all the sudden, started pop out like shut guns, my kids run to my room I was making sure they were flat on the floor they were so scare so was I, and I remember!! 😮😮 I forgot the eggs on the stove...... Came back to the kitchen, the smell 😢 buy worse then that, eggs were everywear on the walls on the cilling 😂😂. You can imagine now right. McDonald's was my savior 🎉 lol
Omg! The chocolate fountain debacle! I laughed out loud long and hard. Too funny ! Hahahahahah
Oh my goodness, seriously laughing out loud thinking about the chocolate fountain! I made my boyfriend a sandwich but accidentally made it with cabbage leaves instead of lettuce. He laughed and I was embarrassed 😂
OMG I was making sweet potato casserole for Thanksgiving a few years ago and accidentally grabbed the peppermint instead of the vanilla. It was so bad. My husband tried so hard to make me feel better and he did eat some but, yeah it was horrendous.
LMAO! I thought that the baking soda story was hilarious but then you told the chocolate story!! I can't even imagine!! You're so funny!
Honey mustard on a strawberry pecan salad, YUM!
My theory on cooking was "Cook it, burn it, let's eat it." Now I actually like to cook. I can't think of one right now, but I'm 100% positive there is a story or three or 200.
Cas!! Ready for a game changer for your shredded chicken?? Put the warm chicken in your stand mixer! It shreds perfectly every time & saves time! You're never gonna shred meat with a fork again, I promise!!!
Thankyou. I used miracle whip and ranch in my potato salad.
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!
Lol there aren’t fricken words for how much I love this woman
Yay!!! :D
I have had my fair share of kitchen blunders but one sticks out in my mind. I had just bought this pretty glass gallon drink dispenser and was going to fill it with iced tea. I boiled water on the stove and steeped the tea bags then poured ice in the canister and started pouring the hot tea into the canister on top of the ice (thinking that the ice would cool it off). Well, you can imagine what happens when glass is ice cold and gets boiling hot liquid poured into it - it basically exploded and glass and hot liquid went everywhere. All over the counter, down my legs, on my arms but luckily the kids were not in the room. Lesson learned. I make sure to allow liquid to cool down before pouring it off.
Oh my goodness! Hope you were ok!
After I got married I wanted to have Thanksgiving dinner at our house . I cooked the Turkey and had to call my mother because the outside was done and the inside was still raw 😮😮😮. But she came to my rescue and finished it. Thanks mom