More Cooking Advice

I give you this information based on real-life experiences:

1. Don't store a Tupperware plate full of pancakes in an oven*
2. Don't store a Tupperware Cake Carrier in an oven*
3. Don't store a leftover pizza box in an oven*
*Don't assume that hubby or yourself will check inside the oven before turning it on
4. Don't microwave an Arby's foil-wrapped sandwich (Why did I do that?)
5. Don't multiply a recipe for "Fruit Cocktail Cake" by 15 times in order to use up a number 10 can of Fruit Cocktail, unless you're feeding 15-20 people, number 10 cans belong to institutions and food banks.
6. Don't ever buy the "Chopped Seafood Mix" from Smith's meat case bargain bin, no matter how cheap it is
7. Don't ever try and butcher a chicken yourself. Not worth it in so many ways.
8. Don't order Urchin from a sushi restaurant. As Lorin put it, "It tastes like the ocean smells--polluted."
9. Blue cheese starts to turn purple and pink when you find it in the back of your fridge after about a year.
10. Don't try to make lamb jerky out of a leg of mutton that was donated to you and you were too lazy to cook it so you tried to salvage it and make jerky. Doesn't work.
11. Don't try and add flour to "thicken" mashed potatoes that you added WAY too much milk to.
12. "Corn Smuts" are disgusting, although they are considered a delicacy in Mexico. Wait, so are cow stomachs and tongues. Wikipedia "Corn Smut" sometime when you are bored. That's what happened to most of our corn one year. After finding out that they are in fact a delicacy in Mexico, I cooked me up a whole pan of corn smuts in an attempt to be non-wasteful and exotic. It tasted like the inside of a shoe. Hmmmm, must be an acquired taste...

So I leave you with a photo of Corn Smut, also known as "Huitlacoche" in Mexico. The open can is what they sell, apparently. You're supposed to put it on tacos. I'll stick with shredded cheese, thanks.