How To Fix Kitchen Catastrophes; What To Do When You Burn Your Food

Sometimes the more we try to juggle the less efficient we are.  That can be especially true in the kitchen, where timing and concentration can be the key between a fantastic dinner and a catastrophe.  On occasion, though things can get away from us.  So what can you do to rescue a meal that you've burned?

As a "Foodie", there are a number of blogs and online sites that I frequently scour in search of tips or inspiration.  I recently came across this post on a website called The Dollar Stretcher, and I concur with  their suggestions on what to do to help rescue a meal that you've cooked so far that it's now burnt.

The following ingredients can be your friend in such situations:

• Soy Sauce:  Use a bit of soy sauce if you realize your chicken is too dry. It complements the seasonings already used in your chicken and helps to rehydrate the chicken.
• Lemons:  Always keep lemons in the house. They're great to add to water if you ever feel bloated from having too much salt, but more importantly, you can squeeze the juice of a lemon wedge onto pretty much any meat you've dried out or overcooked to get some of the juices back into your meat. Lemons are also great for marinating meats before you cook them. Also, slightly burnt roasted asparagus is easily remedied with a little lemon juice.
• Barbecue Sauce or Teriyaki Marinade:  When you overcook some meat, just make tonight barbecue night. Your family will love it. Put a little bit of barbecue sauce on the meat and stick it back in the still-warm but not turned on oven for about 10 minutes, and dinner is saved!
• Vinegar:  After burning a batch of chicken drumsticks, simply add about two tablespoons of vinegar to the entire batch, and it's once again edible and tasty.
• Cream of Chicken Soup:  Pour on top of baked chicken and let it sit for a few minutes in the warm but turned off oven with 1/4 to 1/3 cup of water on top, depending on how moist you'd like it to be.
• Broth:  Any type of broth (chicken, vegetable, beef, etc.) is great for rehydrating overcooked meats. If the meat is severely overcooked, consider pulling the meat off of the bone and added it to a mixture of two parts broth to one part water to create a yummy stew or soup for dinner that night.
• Mayonnaise - Chicken Salad:  Chicken is just one of those finicky meats that are either done to perfection, undercooked, or too dry. Making it into chicken salad may do the trick. There are plenty of free and easy chicken salad recipes on the web, but usually, you'll need mayonnaise, eggs, sugar and mustard, but the other ingredients on these recipes may vary.
• Alfredo Sauce, Spaghetti Sauce, or Tomato Paste:  For overcooked ravioli, spaghetti and pasta, you can simply add 1/4 cup of water and allow the mixture to simmer on medium to medium-high heat depending on your stove to salvage your meal, or you can add some Alfredo sauce, homemade spaghetti sauce, or tomato paste depending on what you're trying to make.

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