Once got the Kraft Dinner all boiled up to find out we were out of milk. Having made it before with water while camping (bleh) I thought it might be better if I substituted mayo for the milk. Kids still ate it, I almost hurled....

Put in 2 tbsp of any seasoning when it's really supposed to be 2 tsp. Or, is it 2 T ? Ahhh!!!!

The biggie of the biggest dinner mistakes for me was teaching my wife how to cook my specialties. Thought it would get myself out of some of the cooking, well it did do that much for a short time before it backfired. Now, she thinks she 'knows' how to cook my specialties better than I do and with her own 'improvements', gagness!!! Now when I cook I get hawked and she tries to tell me how to cook these same things I taught her, the same things I've been cooking for years. My soul mate!

Like JP says, don't confuse the measurements. When I was a kid (about 10) I wanted to make peanut butter cookies and not being too familar with measurements I put 1 cup of salt instead of 1 tsp into the recipe. My mother tried her best to keep doubling the recipe until it came up right, but to no avail. We cooked them anyway and threw them outside for the local fauna, but even the deer turned their nose up at them...

Aye, there's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased scotsman...

before adding it to my belly

I'm Not a Slacker

I've been to and enjoyed both (kind of miss the Russian Lady) and both are now gone way of dance clubs, but the Fed Cafe is still around if you ever made it into that lovely dive, and if CIA is talking about Wicker he wouldn't have cared 'cause he will eat anything off the floor.