Nigella bites back...Cooking gone wrong

I've probably had a couple of cooking mishaps in my time, but the worst was when I put a pan of water on to boil. I stepped out of the house thinking that I'd only be gone for a few minutes, but when I returned my house was completely on fire! The whole thing had gone up in flames! Turned out it was only a dream! LOL Whew! Good thing too, otherwise it would have been a real nightmare! Happy mylotting!

Hi Paula, well I had a near disaster with a pan of cheese sauce to top a mousakkas with, I put what I thought was a very generous helping of cinnamon in, then naturally the same again as one can never have too much cinnamon in a mousakkas, only to discover I'd picked up the wrong canister and added chocolate powder, which really nothing can revive in cheese sauce. I did discover it before it hit the aubergines though and made a fresh bathch. At the moment I'm madly making homemade marmalade from the glut of fresh fruit, hoping to sell the lot next weekend at some food fayre. I had 3 whole lots together last night in one pan, just needed to evaporate a little liquid, sat down for a moment to calculate percentage of profit to be made, and almost lost the lot through not stirring it. Again it was almost all salvaged, except for the bottom of the pan. On which note I must dash as the bread maker has just bleeped to tell me a second batch of marmalade is done.