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The Cooking Confessional


Even the best of cooks have to fess up to a kitchen transgression—passing off boxed mashed potatoes as your own, an ever-growing collection of dusty cookbooks, a loathing of pasta.
Confess your worst cooking sin here!

LaurenG22 LaurenG22
My confession is that I sometimes use butter spray on the veggies! hahaha
LaurenG22 LaurenG22
I HATE GINGER AND GARLIC FROM THE JAR! Jen, just slice open the ginger and grate it. It's yummy that way and a lot easier!! I always mince my own garlic, but Idefinitely have the hand smell after :puke:
radarkitty radarkitty
Once I started using the already peeled and sealed garlic from Trader Joe's, I ditched my jar garlic. :) My secret would be...a little company called cugino's. They are based in Illinois. I use their italian marinade on everything.
Phasekitty Phasekitty
I use minced garlic from a jar! I'm always trying to skip a step somewhere... While I do make a lot of stuff from scratch, I use frozen pie dough for my famous chicken pot pie...and it's fantastic.
BloodyFuFu BloodyFuFu
Ha, I use minced garlic from a jar a lot too. But I am a cake flop. Everywhere I got they want me to bring cake or sweets and I use box mix because every cake I've made from scratch has been a flop. I'm just really good at making box mixes seem not boxed. As for food hates, I hate condiments, I hate strawberries, and I hate cooked apples but make a great apple pie. Crazy!
Iveenia Iveenia
to be honest - I have the baking mix ready and just add eggs and butter to the pastry but not all can be as GREAT as my dad for his first apprenticeship was baker and pastry chef... So I think I have a problem here - :ROTFL: And BTW: if you do not like garlic fingers: there are these special "steel soaps" then all is gone... SMILE - also milk helps a lot to neutralize or basil or peppermint or parsley...
colormesticky colormesticky
I buy giant 2 lb. bags of shredded cheese so I don't have to do it myself.
Beachwalker Beachwalker
LOL wren!!! adding canned chili to the basic ingredients for chili - then no chopping of peppers .... fast and delicious, but not exactly from scratch
wren wren
I can't think of one, but my mom has been famous for her potato salad forever. A few years ago I asked for the recipe (she never gave out the recipe--a family secret, she said) and she said "just go pick some up from ____ Deli (a local deli) and put it in a nice bowl. She's never actually made her own. :oy:
Cocoangel Cocoangel
I have been known to use store bought frosting in a tub :-x I know it's gross. Every time I make homemake frosting it gets rave reviews but I just run out of time. Oh, and I use jar garlic too.
GirlC GirlC
Great idea. I guess mine would be just leaving out little things if I don't have the ingredient or substituting and hoping it works. Most of the time it doesn't!
audreystar audreystar
don't be ashamed. i used minced garlic from a jar too. and i rarely use ginger but if i do i have the ginger spice. :oops: my confession (other than the above one) is that many times i am way too impatient to wait for the oven to preheat. after about two minutes i am all, 'eff it this potato is going in!'. :rotfl:
CoconutPie CoconutPie
I use minced garlic from a jar too more than I use fresh garlic. :D Garlic makes my fingers stink forever and I hate that.
jennifer76 jennifer76
That's an adorable picture! :D My cooking confession - that would get me boxed about the ears by Anthony Bourdain - is that I use minced garlic and ginger from a jar. :oops: I know! It's horrible! But, I HATE how garlic gets my fingers all sticky and how ginger is such a pain to peel!