I am making twice baked potato casserole. (A recipe I cut in half) Used all the good stuff fat free sour cream, and all that.
After I mixed it all together in the casserole dish all I could think was, “How in the heck are those potatoes gonna be soft enough to eat in 20 minutes?” I cut, cubed and threw in the casserole dish. Twenty minutes just didn’t sound right. I kept going back to the recipe to read once again. Sure enough, twenty minutes.
Know what it helps if you do first?
Bake.
The.
Talk about a brain fart. Mine went missing, that is for sure.
May I say you have one pretty-disgusted-with-herself-cook here right now.
I have made them before. Looked at the recipe to make sure of the amount for each ingredient because I was cutting them in half. Probably didn’t really need to look considering it is such an easy recipe and you can pretty much put in what you want. You know, like a “BAKED POTATO“.
I have now turned the oven down to try to figure out what to do. The casserole has been in the oven for 30 minutes, the potatoes, tho cubed, are still kinda, well, a lot, hard. Cheese everywhere. Which is probably gonna burn.
Has anyone else made a mistake like that before? I have.
I hate it when I do something STUPID like that, Especially to comfort food.
Oh, Eric Clapton on the radio right now might make up for it a teensy bit.
COCAINE!
The song.
I’d probably do something like that, so don’t worry.
How did it turn out in the end? I hope it was OK.
Actually, not so good. Forgot there was sour cream in the recipe, I thought nuking it in the microwave might help. Until I saw the curdled sour cream.
I did not eat it.
Sorry to hear that, but you were probably right not to eat it.
Ya, I probably would have gotten an upset tummy.
That wouldn’t be good.
Nope!
Blue, this is why I hate baking potatoes with a passion! Especially if the recipe also involves cheese! We have a convection oven and it’s even worse. You never know how much longer or shorter to adjust the time and as a result, things are either raw or burned. I would suggest that you boil them a bit before baking. Hey, sometimes in life it’s okay to cheat!
I love baking potatoes. LOVE IT! Well, love eating them I should say. Next time I will either boil them or remember to bake them.
Still can’t believe I did that. Hehehehe
LOL.. Sorry!!!
Why do we laugh at other’s misfortune..? 
Yes, of course.. I think we all do that; don’t we? If I’m going to have a problem it will be with the proportions of ingredients… I tend to be a ‘tip it in and see how it looks’ kinda person. Needless to say, it doesn’t always work out..!
Oh well, I do ‘try’..! 
I dunno, have been known to laugh too. Sometime, you should, if you were ever to meet my nephew, ask him about the time I laughed when the bb’s ricocheted off the concrete steps; two seconds after I told him they would ricochet, and the bb’s hit him in the forehead. He was about 6 I think, maybe 7. He was screaming, I was trying not to laugh. :/ His mom, my sister just about elbowed me to death trying to get me to be quiet. I have my mom’s warped sense of humor. I don’t normally laugh when someone gets hurt, I think I just could not believe it happened right as I finished saying it would happen.
I still, to this day, give him a hard time about that. He is now 16. 
LOL …
And don’t they hate to be reminded…!!! I’ll keep that in mind if ever I’m lucky enought to meet him.. 
Yes!! Hates being reminded, bows his head, smiles a bit. Good thing he has a sense of humor too!
He could really give me a good wallop now if he had a mind too! Hahahahahaha
A cook after my own heart – see the saga of my green tomatoes last October/November! Covering your casserole dish with aluminum foil might have helped keep the cheese from burning and the potatoes to cook, but that’s only a wild guess.
Oh! I am going to check out the green tomato saga right now! I don’t cook much. Heheheheh Can you tell? I didn’t have any foil, I had forgotten to buy some at the store when I went grocery shopping. Even after reminding myself to buy it while in the store in another aisle. (Sometime I saw must have reminded me).
oh no.
Oh, yeah! Heheheh
This made me a giggle, though I feel your pain, and I am sorry for the frustration
I wish I had been born with culinary prowess, but alas, it isn’t so. I can’t tell you how many times I have botched a recipe because my eyes registered 1/4 cup, instead of 1/4 tblsp. What?!? How could I have possibly made that mistake? I shout, shaking angry fists at the sky! So . . these days I defer to my Hubs to make all things gourmet and I stick to Ghiradeli in a box. Can’t go wrong with those dark chocolate brownies!
Ahhh…it is ok! I just amaze myself sometimes. I hope we all do! One can only laugh at ones’ self.
I also wish I had been born with culinary prowess. Not so. Lucky I can make a sandwich. Oooohhhh…I have also shaken my hands at the sky. LOL Can I borrow your hubby to cook me a home-cooked meal? Promise to give him back!