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# Your Afternoon Chat: Holiday Cooking Disasters
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/holiday-cooking-disasters-11-2015/
- Published: 2015-11-24T22:00:55.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-25T18:36:02.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, Your Afternoon Chat, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 07:44

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Okay, as promised: Yesterday we discussed our favorite go-to holiday recipes. Today, let's talk about your worst holiday cooking disasters -- either ones you perpetrated, or which you witnessed, assuming you can tell those stories without getting in trouble with your loved ones.Most of my gaffes involve holiday pies. I love to bake, but I don't really eat a ton of pies so I don't ever practice making them; on Thanksgiving, though, we generally have a variety of people eating with us, and so we like to offer some traditional dessert options if we can. Last year I tried a pumpkin swirl cheesecake, which I made a day ahead and refrigerated, and which was STILL basically runny when I cut into it. Partly I think my oven blows and has a hard time cooking to the center of some dishes, but also, the mini-fridge I had put it in turned out to be on its last legs and wasn't actually CHILLING anything. In a fit of rage, I hurled it into the garbage, Iain-from-*Great British Baking Show* style, rather than try to serve the parts which seemed to have set. And I yelled, "I can't SERVE THIS to HUMANS."

That's fairly mild, although it does include a tantrum, at least. But please give us YOUR worst. Or the best of your worst.