Have you ever forgotten to serve the dish you prepared for an occasion?

The day before thanksgiving this year i was stuffing the turkey and not all the stuffing was fitting in it, so therefor i had some extra stuffing i had put in a pot and put it in the refrigerator and then the thanksgiving feast came and i had forgotten to put the extra stuffing in the oven, but i was glad that no one was asking for extra stuffing because we were running low on that since i forgot to put it in the oven. I think every year on thanksgiving there is something i forget to put out because i am so busy and doing so many things and then the family comes over and i start talking to them and i forget about things i said i shouldn't forget the day before.

My mom does this quite often, and I find it funny at times. There was a time when my mom and dad went to a far place to visit a relative of my mom's. On their way home, they passed by a fresh fish and other seafood market. My mom asked my dad to stop the car so that she could check on the available seafood. And pretty much, there was a fresh supply of squid! My dad loves squid, and my mom immediately bought a kilogram of it. She was planning to cook the squid the way my dad wanted it. UPon arriving at home, she quickly went about cooking the squid. Then, just as my mom transferred the squid onto the serving plate, our neighbor rang the doorbell. It turned out that her daughter arrived and they had lots of food. They gave us food, which we also served for dinner. As we were nearing the end of the meal, my dad asked my mom where the squid was. My mom stopped eating and laughed out loud. She totally forgot to serve the squid which was just situated at the kitchen counter. So we sort of had squid for dessert instead.

Hi mimpi, I never did it but I remember my mother did it several times especially if there is any special occasion but not on normal days. I think she is preparing more varieties and forgetting something to serve. Later we developed a habit to ask her whether she forget anything and it helped her in really a great way.

Um, yes. I made cornbread for dinner once because my sons love it. I had it in the oven after the rest of the meal had been prepared since it doesn't take long to bake, only about 18 minutes or so. Well, I completely forgot that it was in the oven. I forgot about it until I started to smell it... burning. It was in the oven about an hour before I took it out. I placed it on the stovetop to cool before throwing it away. When it cooled, I was about to throw it away but noticed my dog looking at me with pleading eyes. He raised one paw and my heart melted. I gave it to him. I had made it in a cake pan so it was in the shape of a disk. I just handed my dog the whole thing. He gratefully took it and took off to his favorite place to munch down on something yummy. He only ate a bit of it then, though. He carried that thing around with him for three entire days! LOL It was smaller every time I saw it but he would not let it go. It was the cutest thing to see him going everywhere with his yummy chunk of overbaked cornbread.

Hi Mimpi, I had the same experience too. I prepared a dish for the visitors and i forgot to serve it. our refrigerator was so full already so i asked favor from my neighbor who happened to my my cousin to put it inside their refrigerator. i remember it two days after the celebration. even my cousin forgot about it. during the event i know something was lacking but i could not figure it out then. LOL.

Yes. I did forget at a dinner I had for my office colleagues. This was a special dish made from fish which had to be wrapped in banana leaves in small lots of minced fish with egg etc and steamed. This had to be served hot and so it was not laid on the table along with other dishes. It was in a way an exotic dish and it would have made me very happy to see them relish it but it was not to be as I completely forgot to put it on the table!!!

it has happened to me many times,i have forgotten so many times but funnily i do not remember a single incident.hope you let your brother know that you had made french fries for him,its the feelings that count...

Well, it has been happened with me once ... We were drinking ...and we forget to serve one dish ..which I prepared ... Only in the morning I came to know ...it and felt too much bad .. Thanks

Last week one morning i open the microwave to find the half of an acorn squash that i cooked the night before when i obiously wasnt very hungry. I had gotten busy with something and totally forgot my supper. I put some peas in it and a little butter on top then reheated it. Breakfast= last nites forgotten dinner.

Yes, that had happened to me too. I still remember that i prepared this dish made of shrimps for a very good friend who only eats chicken and shrimps or prawns and the like. I didn't get to notice that i didn't serve the shrimps dish because i had to put it in the fridge to chill. He didn't notice it too because there were other dishes on the table though, it was only the chicken dish that he ate. He didn't ask me for it maybe he thought that i didn't prepare any for that day. I am sure that he did enjoy the chicken but it would have been much better if the shrimp was there too. Only after he had left and i was putting all the leftovers in the fridge that i got to notice that the shrimp dish was there and wasn't served. I just laughed it out and so did he when i told him about it.

Yes, I also have this occasion. Once I prepared the noodle. But I forgot to eat when interrupted by a telephone. After finished answering the phone, I still forgot it.Till, my mother found that and told me to heat it and finish it.

Yes,It did happens once with me.When some gust had come home i had prepared 2types of sweet dishes.I did serve only one dish and forget about the other one.After when the guest left.When i was cleaning the whole thing.and was putting the leftover in the fridge .I saw the other dish.My kids then finished off the sweet dishes.:-)

I have done the same thing on a couple occasions, and it always seems to be a big family get together when I do. Just this Thanksgiving I managed to forget the cranberry sauce and coconut creame pie where in the fridge. I felt so bad when I realized. I spent hours making that pie to perfection just to forget it.

you would have got excited when your brother came and finally made him miss those french fries right?.. i didnt get chances to enjoy those kind of memorable incidents yet.. hope my wife do this

I did not prepare it but had asked for it to prepared for a friend who had got married. I had invited him over for lunch with his wife and had asked my sis in law to prepare some rajma for him. He was very fond of that. She in wanting to do her best, went ahead and prepared a host of other dishes as well. In the melee and confusion i had kept this aside in the pot forgetting to transfer it to the bowl. This dish was not served and i engrossed in discussing his wedding forgot about it as well. Can't tell you how sheepish i felt after that. And guess what i had to have it for dinner that same evening.

Sometimes I make something for dinner and put it in the microwave, not to cook but to keep it covered until time to serve--or baked goods that I stuck in just to warm the butter on top and forgot to take out when it finished heating...or my favorite thing to forget is a baked potato. Then I find it still there the next day...and have to throw it away. Did you eat the fries? PS: You have a lucky brother! Does he myLot?

hi mimi1911 yes I fixed my next door neighbor a special' salad with hidden vally ranch dressing when we had them]voer for dinner, as she could not eat the salad I had made for the rest as it had bacon bits in it and she was a vegan. and only after she 'left did I realize I had never put it on the table. lol

Oh man, did your brother know that you were going to prepare fries for him? But Im guessing it was supposed to be a surprise? Im also guessing that you tried to make up for it the next time that he came over?^_^ I have experienced that but not for food I think. I remember it was s gift or something that I just wanted to give to a friend but with all the hiding and trying hard that she will not guess what I was up to I just ultimately forgot about it.LOL I also only remembered when everyone has left the house.

Oh yes, Mim, more than once. A lovingly prepared dish will often get left from the table at meal time, especially those dishes that I've put in the refrigerator! Ugh.

One day myself and friends were staying at my relatives house.My relatives went to tour so we occupied there home for group study.We planned to make dinner by ourselves.So all the guys helped in it.We made Chapathi,an indian item and we also made curry.We ate all and after that we went to bed and some were asleep,then i suddenly thought that my aunty told that she had kept some ice creams in her refrigirators.I suddenly told everybody.Only few ate that because many of them were asleep.But the few ate that very well...