Is there anything you cannot cook to save your life!?

That's a thought! Handy hint Sehlers! It is a relatively new oven but you never do know...

You remind me my silly story... when I first made pizza, I made the dough and was ready to put it to rise, I dumbed it into a bowl of water... my partner said we still can do it so I pick it up and kinda wiped it off, it came out surprisingly good!

It could be your oven. I have to use a thermometer inside my oven because I have an old oven that the dial isn't very accurate. Maybe having an internal thermometer so you know exactly what the temperature is would help.

I thought mashed potato is very easy, I ahve made it once and it was okay.

My friends all give me a hard time because I can't make mashed potatoes as normally I'm a very good cook and can do some pretty intricate cooking. Bread from scratch, no problem; soup, cream puffs, galataboureku, easy. Mashed potatoes I screw up every time. I think I must have a missing mashed potato gene or something. People have even stood right with me when I make them and I still get lumpy and unappealing.

I guess it is something that some people cannot do and some people can; I know what you mean, I am a good cook too but once in a while, I just cannot make some certain food.

I never made cake before because I don't have all the right tools yet, maybe sometime in the future. Thanks for sharing :-)

The thing you describe as Cornish Pasties resembles a favorite dish of mine from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Up there we called it a pasty. We made them in a pie pan with a pie crust the same size, or rather a little bigger than the pie tin. It was filled with rutabaga, carrots, onions, and cubed beef. After assembling on half of the pie tin with these items you put a few drops of water in and would dot with a little butter, fold the other half over and pinch it shut on the open side and cut a few slits in the top to let off the steam. Now do the same on the other side of the pie tin and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 45 minutes, or until the crust is nicely browned. Serve hot with some Ketchup available. Try it this way, and you may discover an easier way to do what you have been trying to do. Good luck. You may PM me if you have any questions.

Yeah, my spouse took couple dayoffs in this months and next month, we went for roadtrips and stuff :-) So I am trying to catch up on mylot until his next dayoff again. I mess up with the baking as well because I am not very good at it, I am better with cooking.

I know exactly what you mean! I wash having such a hard time baking chichken as well when I first started to make, I tried couple times and realized I have to bake it for like 35-45 minutes at 350F, and I turn it up to 375 and bake it for 15-20 minutes more, it ended up veryvery very tender meat... my spouse gave me great compliment on that and it was relaly delicious! (I think it was the best chicken that I have EVER had!!!! not exagerrating)

It sounds like you have the heat up too high. Gas cooks faster than most electric stoves/ovens, so you really have to watch your heat while cooking. Make sure it's on medium when frying...I hope this helps.

It owuld be good so you can always cook whatever you want to have ;-)