Forgetting a crucial ingredient

LOL! My thing was baking soda. I forgot to put it in a lot of recipes like bread and cookies. On my favorite banana bread recipe it is asterisked and marked all over - "Do NOT forget Baking Soda!"

Yeah, the baking powder. Really doesn't work then. I don't like crust either. I would not have missed the salt. I'm not supposed to have added salt. Sugar, milk, and spice are really, really necessary. Sounds like a pretty smart 4 year old. My Dad thought he had flour one time, but he had powdered sugar. My Mom had put all the powdered stuff that came in bags in glass jars so the mice wouldn't bite into the bags. But she didn't label anything. He tried to make pancakes, but they wouldn't thicken up. He made really, really sweet eggs with milk in them. Two cups of powdered sugar instead of two cups of flour is really something with eggs, milk, and baking powder. So it could have been worse. Cause and effect, "Don't mess with your Mom when she's cooking. Do your homework."

Dang.....I didn't forget but I opened a bundt cake once and started baking it when I realized they had forgot to put in the filling mix. I was ticked! I called the 800 number and they apologized and sent me coupons etc to replace it....the problem was I needed it the next day and I didn't have time to do another one....costly as I had to go the supermarket and get one from the bakery...ouch! They know what to charge!

My nieces were over and I planned on making a cheese pie. I was all set and to my horror I realised there was no cheese in the house. Having gone half way through my recipe I had to put in something and so I put onions instead. It surely did not taste like a cheese pie but I had just created a new recipe!

I am not much into cooking nor baking, but yes, I think I forget such important ingredients too like salt which gives taste to the food.

I just remember when I was a kid, I made some black tea but instead of sugar I put in salt. Tasted very strange and horrible. I always loved tea. And there have been times I forget to add salt in stews and they taste horrible. Amazing what a pinch of salt can do!

I remember my mom forgetting the flour in a cake once. It was quite funny. She didn't even have to taste it to realize her mistake. One look when it came out of the oven and she was like, uh-oh. I think I was about seven. She was trying to work full time, raise her kids, and cook dinner every night. Much like you!

I probably have but I can't think of anything I'd forgotten like chocolate chips. I do recall when I was a teenager trying to make chocolate chip cookies and I ended up making chocolate chip cake I added milk and I should not have.. if I recall correctly.

Sure and more than once, I have no doubt! The most recent one that I remember is a Mexican Bean and Chicken Casserole that I made for my daughter and son-in-law-to-be. (They are married now). I purchased the ingredients without my usual list as I make this fairly often, came home and began to prepare the casserole. All of the sudden I remembered that I forgot the chicken! YIKES! I was stuck though and had to see it through without the chicken. Needless to say, we had the casserole that night - vegetarian style and I never mentioned a word of it to the two of them. They ohhh and ahhh'd over the casserole and went away happy! To this day, if I had to make the casserole without the chicken I would proceed, but do prefer to have the meat in it. It always pleases!