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Kosher Food and Wine Experience – WIN TICKETS!!
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How would you like to win a pair of tickets to come to the Kosher Food and Wine Experience on Feb 22 2011 at Chelsea Piers in NYC? This is going to be an awesome event – featuring kosher food from some of the most delicious and famous kosher restaurants, more than 200 kosher wines and the most amazing kosher chefs, including our very own Jamie Geller. Jamie will be there to shmooze with you all and sign books. Kosher.com will be showing off our goods too – it is going to be a major kosher experience!!
These tickets are $100 a pop, but if you want a chance at winning a pair of them, and are prepared to come to NYC on your own dime – here is what you need to do. Remember when Jamie recently told us about her failed snowman cake? What is one of your memorable kitchen disasters? Tell us about it in the comments – and Jamie will pick a winner.
Contest ends January 28th 2011 at 6pm EST. Entrants must be at least 21 years of age.
For those who don't win or don't want to enter – you can still save money on those tickets. Yes indeed!! If you buy your tickets online before February 1, 2011 and use our code JAMIE20 you can save 20%! If you buy after January 31 2011 you can save 10% by using the code JAMIE10. You may not win our prize but you can certainly win our discount!!
So, what are you waiting for? Get commenting – I am sure everyone has at least one kitchen disaster the family still talks about!!
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I had a great recipe for Sesame Noodles with Broccoli that I had made a million time before. Each time that I had made it, I had simply skipped the Thai Chili Paste. One Shabbat, when I was coincidentally having my younger brother over for dinner (did I mention he's super picky and an extremely harsh critic?) I decided to take a chance and use a little bit of the paste for extra flavor. Weeell, even though I used 1/8 tsp instead of the 1/4 tsp the recipe called for, we all had steam coming out of our ears…and I had to wash it off in the sink. Brothers being what they are, mine has never quite let me live this one down!
For one Shabbos, I was having a bunch of guests and decided to try out a fancy fish souffle. It entailed very detailed and complicated directions, including making a fish stock to cook it in that had heads and tails and bones of fish. I followed the recipe to the letter (which I normally don't do as I like to be creative) and it looked gorgeous! Unfortunately, though it was stunning in appearance it lacked ANY flavor and was, to put it bluntly, the worst thing anyone ever had to eat! I was mortified in front of my guests! It was a good thing I had made a bunch of other things to eat! And since it's more than 20 years after the disaster I can laugh about it now. And after that horrific disaster, I decided that I was NEVER going to follow a recipe to the letter again!
Trying to make Chocolate Banana Peanut butter parve ice cream…I couldn't find the parve yogurt I needed, so i figured, I'll add some more banana to substitute the thickness a yogurt brings…either way, when it first came out of the ice cream maker, the consistency looked decent enough, that i was kinda pleased…a few hours later in the freezer, and it was rock solid…so much for dessert that shabbos…oh well
I like to store my meat Shabbos dishes in my oven on Shabbat day, just to keep them out of the way until I can wash them on Motzei Shabbat. One week I included my huge, thick, plastic cutting board in the oven…. only I forgot I hadn't yet cleaned it when I preheated the oven on Sunday. Melted cutting board everywhere. I had to scrape melted plastic cutting board off of every inch of my oven, since it had dripped down. I even had to use razor blades. The clean-up took several days and two self-clean cycles before I stopped worrying about toxicity in the oven. What a disaster. Before I cleaned it up I did take pictures and have a good laugh: http://www.ima2seven.com/2010/01/mother-of-the-year/
A very big number of years ago (I think I was 12) I made a cake erev pesach (not Kosher L'Pesach). My mother gave me a boxed mix to use. For starters, she thought I was using a bowl, and I used a mixer. So that had to get cleaned all over again for Pesach.
The other problem with the cake (and this is sad) is that the box said butter. So I used butter.
It was eaten at Sholos Seudos and — here's the kicker — everyone was still fleishig's.
It took a few bites of cake before someone said 'This is REALLY good. What's in here?" that I realized what I did.
My most memorable #kitchenfail was a few years ago during our "young, married, poor" period. We were living with my in-laws for a few months after having left a bad job in a different city, so using the kitchen was already a bit of a mine field…
I wanted to surprise my wife with a birthday cake. I came home early the afternoon of her big day and pulled together what I thought was a delicious chocolate layer cake. 2 layers, a never before tried feat of its own and I made my own frosting – added food coloring and all
Once everyone came home, it was more "nice thought", because I had made it way way way too sweet and dairy. We were eating meat that night, and the in-laws are all natural kind of folks..
My wife and I each ate a sliver and had to toss the rest. At least I was able to keep the kitchen clean
When I was in high school, I had a teen cookbook that I used all of the time. The recipes were simple and delicious. However, once while making coffee cake, I accidentally confused the confectioner's sugar and the flour. Instead of adding flouring, I added several cups of confectioners sugar, making a sugary-cinnamony soup, that never rose.
A few months ago I decided to try making Ice Cream Cupcakes. They turned out better than I expected, and they looked just like real ice cream. I carried a tray of cupcakes into my dining to photograph, balancing them really carefully because they were top-heavy. On my trip back to the kitchen the cupcakes started to wobble. One at a time the cupcakes went diving off the tray – PLOP – frosting side down, squished into the floor. After working on them for hours, I was so frustrated. Fortunately I still had some extra frosting, so I scraped off the tops and re-frosted the cupcakes. Just as I finished fixing the last one, my mother came into the kitchen and started moving things around on the table where all the cupcakes were sitting. And just like that, they all tipped over again.
Which time was the worst? Was it the time I invited a whole group of people for Shabbat, tripped while carrying the dafina to the table, and it ended up all over the wall? We each had about a tablespoon of rice and some gefilte fish. Or was it the time my husband came home to find me sobbing over a HUGE pot of burned chili? I was trying to be a real "balabuste," and made a large batch to eat and freeze. Well, I didn't know you had to keep stirring it… the bottom burned black and the whole mess ended up in the garbage. Better than on the walls, I guess…
I can't decorate cakes either, but I don't think it qualifies as a disaster.
I can't take credit for this one, but here's a funny story from my mother. We were having guests over and my mother planned on making a chocolate cake. She opened up the cookbook, followed the recipe without thinking, and lo and behold out came a lemon meringue pie – the recipe on the opposite page. During the process she apparently didn't realize that the chocolate cake didn't have any chocolate, but still…
Anyway, lousy for a chocolate cake, but a great lemon meringue pie.
This one is my mother's famous story. We all laugh about it still today. My father was a real food connoseur and loved to eat. As with most men, he especially loved his mother's cooking. So when they were first married, like many newleywed wives, my mother learned all of her mother-in-law's recipes and would make them for my father. Each time he would try something she made he would tell her how good it tasted but would say, 'it still doesn't taste like my mother's'. My mother said she could never figure out what she was doing wrong – she followed her mother-in-law's recipes perfectly. Then one day, she got distracted by a crying newborn baby and the food she was cooking burned on the stove. She served it to my father anyways. My father told her, "now it tastes just like my mother's!"
There is a very funny story about making chili. I was in college and I was trying to impress my neighbors with my mom's favorite chili recipe. I even called her on the phone to make sure I had all of the ingredients just right. Eveything was going great and then it was time to add the beans, so I added them. Yes, kidney beans, not soaked, nor cooked, just plan old kidney beans. A few minutes later, I took the pot of chili over to my neighbors, so proud of how I recreated my mom's recipe. Well, it would have been a great meal but the beans were not cooked. I tried it myself and my face turned as red as the ripe and the kidney beans I had added a few minutes earlier. This cooking mistake has made every chili night since the best. I will never "spill the beans"in the chili unless they are soaked first.
I was really excited last year when I got my first crock pot. Now I could easily make stews, and soups, and cholent, and other delicious things that would stay warm forever!
When it was time to try it out for our first Shabbat lunch I was really excited. So excited that I confidently thought, "I know what I am doing, I don't need a recipe." I threw all caution to the wind and plopped in some beans, some squash and potato, and lots of random spices, not really paying attention to what I was doing. I cranked up the dial and let it sit overnight, making delicious crockpoty goodness.
Well, It became time for Shabbat lunch, and I took off the lid, and dolloped the concoction into bowls. My friends and I were able to stomach 3 or 4 bites, but after that we were overwhelmed by the awful flavor. I guess next time I should pay more attention when I am shaking on the paprika, cumin, and chili powder. Needless to say, we had hummus and pita for lunch that Shabbat, and I am now a much wiser, and more conscientious crock pot user.
ok…so, for me…the best is the "boiling potatoes"…
My husband said that he needed boiling potatoes for part of the dinner he was making…I happily wanted to help out, so I BOILED some potatoes in a big pot.
He asked what I was doing…I said " I thought you needed boiling potatoes!!!"
He chuckled, ok, he ouright hackled at me and said sympathetically between his fits of laughter and informed me " No sweetie, boiling potatoes is a type of potatoe you bye at the market…just like you would a baking potatoe!!
WELL!!! To this day…it's still a sensitive issue to discuss!!!just kidding!
Happy cooking y'all.
So cooking over the years I've had plenty of disasters but the worst actually had me ending up in the emergency room. I was 18 and my parents went to a wedding. I invited over two of my good friends and we decided to grill some steaks. At the time we had a charcoal grill and while I had cooked on one before. I'd never lit it. My friend and I filled it with charcoal and then I did what I had seen my dad do a million times I added some newspaper and doused it all with lighter fluid and then added a match. The whole thing blew up in my face, singeing my eyebrows, eyelashes, the hair around my face and giving me second degree burns on my hands.I ended with boxing mitts on my hands while they healed and I've never lit a charcoal grill since.
Personal worst disaster was trying to make pink-peppercorn encrusted fish. Couldn't quite get the peppercorns finely ground and so the fish was really heavily coated. Basically, the fish was spicy like five-alarm chili. But it *was* pretty.
2 favorite disasters:
1) A friend came to visit me in Houston from out of town during high school, mom put meatballs in oven to pre-cook for dinner. We left to visit NASA, came back at end of day. The meatballs were, uhm, well done. Dad said "Why'd we drive so far when we have moon rocks here?"
2) Visited friends in NYU married dorm, which called for tons of space-saving solutions. They heated up oven to make Shabbos dinner…. only to remember that the oven was also where they stored an electric heating tray. Take-out Shabbat!
This is not my own disaster, but rather my mom's. My parents house was always filled with people on Shabbos and Yom Tov. A normal Pesach seder was around 30 people, sometimes more. My mom makes homemade gefilte fish twice year, and it is something we all lok forward to. First seder night, we served the delicious fish and then amazing rich chicken soup with fluffy kenadil floating around. Huge hit! After cleaning up, my dad thought it would save room in the fridge to put the food away in plastic bags instead of containers. Can you see where this is going? OK, so the second night of Yom Tov is always rushed to warm up food and to start the seder. So my mom runs to the fridge grabs a bag of "round balls" and throws it into the soup. About an hour later there is a weird smell coming form the kitchen. No one can figure out what the smell is. It smells fishy, but my mom thought it was the fish in the oven. So she dismissed it. My mom asks me to take the fish out of the fridge, but I can't find it. She is getting mad, and says its in a bag, jut look! I replied that the only bag is kneidil, she starts to argue with me that the kneidil is in the soup. Until it hits her! "oh no!!!!" she screamed. She went over to the HUGE ot of soup, and looks in and with one smell, she knoew what was in the soup! Well, in the end it was a faster meal because there was no soup or fish! This was one for the record book and we never let her forget the year she put gefilte fish in the chicken soup!
Oh – the first time I made challah! I guess the water was too hot and when in went the yeast – I cooked it! My poor braids didn't rise and we had this little braided bricks. My wonderful husband (patient fiance, at the time), ate it anyway, though he remarked that it tasted like matzah…oy! I hope I can go to the Festival!
When I was about 9 or 10 years old, my mom was in a huge rush to cook Thanksgiving dinner and I volunteered to help. She handed me a pumpkin pie recipe, thinking it would be easy for me to follow the directions which I did to a T… can of pumpkin, sugar, spices, eggs, etc. all mixed together and poured into a pre-made crust. I was so proud watching my mother pull this beautiful pie out of the oven and slice it up…when suddenly the knife hit a hard spot. The look on my mom's face was priceless as she discovered 2 perfectly hard boiled eggs sitting in the pie. The recipe hadn't specified that "add 2 eggs" meant to crack and beat them first! After my mom stopped laughing, she sliced around the eggs and we served the rest of the pie…it tasted great and no one knew about what we still refer to as my "eggsident".
We were baking one of our favorites,sour cream coffee cake.When it came out of the oven it looked great but when we moved it it seemed to slosh . Upon examination it appeared that everything was right except we forgot to add the flour.A new dish was born called sour cream coffee soup.The moral is never bake while on the telephone.
Talk about a bride who knew NOTHING!
I was newly married, not much past our sheva brachos. Wanting to impress my husband, I decided to be ambitious and make challos for Shabbos.(I couldn't remember ever boiling water before, let alone making challos).
My husband walked in the kitchen, only to find me in tears. I was desperately trying to knead a dough that was flat, and, needed a crowbar to lift. After a bit of investigation and, to my embarrassment, my husband was the one who discovered I had been working with confectionary sugar instead of flour!
I made a 2 lemon tortes and as I was bringing them into my parents' home, one of the tortes fell onto to the floor and was a lost cause. Thereafter, everyone enjoyed the other lemon torte.
However, when I tried to remake the recipe, I could not figure it out, it came out as a sticky substance that would fall on the floor that I am still trying to clean up.
I've always been a baker since I was little. My wonderful mother used to let us help make the hamantaschen every Purim and other such treats even though we were no doubt more trouble than a help! She cultivated a real love of baking in me and my 2 sisters.
One Sunday afternoon, my sister and I decided to bake brownies…from scratch. I was about 9 and she 11. We measured out the cocoa powder, flour, eggs, sugar, salt and started vigorously mixing away. We were pretty proud of ourselves as the batter started to look more and more like the brownies our mom would make. My mouth started watering as my sister steadily held the hand blender mixing the mountains of smooth chocolate. I wanted to stick my finger in the bowl to taste the creamy mixture but decided to hold back and use my self-control (not an easy feat for a 9 year old and a bowl of chocolate batter!). As I patiently stood watching my sister mix and mix, some batter splattered onto my hand. This was my lucky day! Anticipating deliciousness, I quickly stuck my finger in my mouth. However, my dreams were short lived. I sprinted to the garbage and spit out the batter. "Rochelle, this is GROSS!" I yelled. She flipped off the mixer and took a taste of her own. Trash incident repeated. Confused, we looked back at the recipe. 1 cup of flour, check, 2 eggs, check. 1/2 cup sugar, check…wait! Salt and sugar are not the same thing? My mom kept them in containers and we didn't pay any attention nor did we think that it was unusual to add 1/2 cup of salt to a brownie recipe. (I did wonder why Morton salt didn't provide bigger containers considering how long I had to wait to get 1/2 cup of salt out of the tiny spout). We soon paid another visit to the trash can, though this time with our entire brownie batter in tow. Well, at least we had a sisterly bonding experience!
When I was in college, my rommate copied down some of my mom's recipes to try. One cake that we especially liked was called Prune Cake. We went to the store with the recipe in hand and set out to buy all the ingredients we would need. When we got to the one listed as "one 4 3/4 oz package of baby prunes" we were stumped! We went to the dried fruit aisle and chose the smallest prunes we could find. Back at our apartment, we cut the small prunes up into smaller pieces and tossed them into the mixing bowl with the rest of the ingredients. Well, when we turned on the mixer, pieces of prunes started jumping out of the bowl! Only then did we realize that although my roommate wrote down "package" my mom's recipe was for a jar of baby (food) prunes! We drove back to the store at midnight to buy one jar of baby food prunes, wondering if the cashier thought we had a constipated baby at home…
We were married in June, back in '75, and my wife's birthday was mid-July. Being all of 3 weeks married, I wanted to surprise her with a homemade birthday cake. No Duncan Hines for us! I kept her out of the kitchen saying I was working on a surprise. With all the noise coming out of there, and her not ever imagining I could do anything with food in a kitchen, she thought I was building her a coffee table (which was what she actually had wanted for her birthday…). The cake came out a little lopsided, but the frosting was disasterous. She found bits of chocolate in tons of places on the walls and ceilings. The worst was that the frosting turned to liquid at room temp. We ate the cake directly out of freezer! She reminds me of my frozen cake experience even after 35 years.
My husband loves lemon flavored desserts. So I decided I would be really fancy one week and make lemon meringue pie. I followed the recipe exactly and it came out beautifully. However, I forgot to put it in the fridge as the recipe instructed and left it out for several hours. As I brought it to the table, amidst the oohing and aahing of our shabbos guests, I couldn't help but notice the pan felt a little sticky. "No matter" I thought and handed my husband the server. "What's a little stickiness in the grand scheme of things?" Imagine my horror when my husband cut into the meringue to reveal a hollow crust with the barest vestiges of lemon curd clinging to it. "Where's the filling?" we all wondered?
Turns out it was in a giant puddle on my counter. The filling had somehow liquefied on the warm counter and leached out of the pie. Everyone was rolling with laughter, telling my husband and I how we should have seen the confused looks on our faces.
My Aunt Leah's (a'h) story is cute…she didn't know how to
yield a wonderful, dark gravy for a succulent roast…one of her
first repasts for my uncle Tobias(a'h)…
so in her infinite wisdom, she decided
to use coffee…
mind you..
it was granulated…not brewed…
and tasted like pebble like sand…
And, the roast was a goner…
but, the story it tells lives on…
May my aunt and uncle rest in peace
and may their soul be intertwined in
the fabric of life…
Their soul should have an Aliyah
after revealing this one to you…
Best, Lydia.
My most memorable kitchen disaster was the morning after my wedding. I purchased all of the ingredients to make pancakes from scratch, since I knew they were my new husband's favorite. I mixed the ingredients, according to a recipe that I had never tried before. The batter came out so thick, I could barely mix it. The pancakes tasted awful and the texture wasn't any better. What a way to start off my first morning as a married woman. (Luckily, my cooking has improved since then!)
As a new bride I only entertained on Friday nights. My menu was very simple and I always made a favorite, my mother's carrot "pudding". As the days became longer (we were married in January) we decided to invite guests for Shabbos lunch instead. Having established a pattern of preparing everything in a certain order, I was surprised at finding a raw carrot pudding in the refrigerator as I went to serve it. What happened? I had always put it into the oven exactly one hour before Shabbat so that it would be hot and fresh when I served it. Not possible on Shabbat morning! Oh well, the guests got a raincheck.
Newly married, I had my in laws over for shabbos. Erev Shabbos I pulled out one of the many pans in the freezer, pretty certain it was the noodle kugel. well, we have soupy ice cream and frozen solid kugel:(
One year, after moving into a new home, I decided to host seder for 16 people and chose a very elaborate seder meal. The night before the first seder, I put the chickens, the briskets, the kugels, etc. into the oven to bake and turned on my electric stove. About 1 hour into the cooking, I checked the food and the oven was cold. My oven wasn't working and I could not figure out what the problem was. With 16 guests coming and no way to get someone out to repair the stove, I phoned a friend of mine who owned a restaurant a few towns over and asked if I could use his ovens. He agreed, and I loaded up the station wagon with all of the dishes, aluminum foil, my utensils, and dishrags, and drove to the restaurant. I had to line all of the stoves, make sure that no one touched the food (so that it would not become unkosher for passover), and had to sit at the restaurant bar for over 4 hours until everything was cooked. I ended up getting home around 1am exhausted! Fortunately, my oven was fixed before the holiday and everything turned out fine. However, it was an ordeal I hope never to repeat!
i was making my usual cheesecake for shavuos, but was using an older springform pan that I was not too familiar with. just as i opened the oven door and had the cheesecake over the hot oven rack, the entire bottom fell out of the pan and the cheesecake poured all over hot oven. what a mess!!!
I married into a Sephardic family. My husbands favorite dish is a rice with fava beans & his family were not so forth comming on the ingrediant's & how to prepare it other then is was chopped onions, garlic & cilantro sauted' add fava beans cover with water, boil & then add rice. So after some research i found a cookbook with the recipe to have my husband become upset & throw the whole thing including pan away. I was dejected. After some questioning i found out it was red onion that gave it the dark brown color. so again i prepared the dish to have him turn up his nose. Then i found out it was the wrong brand of rice to have it fail. Then to find out that the fava beans were best frozen & again it failed. Each time he would get up & throw it in the trash! I think i tried for a whole year every week, till finally his 86 year old aunt told me to burn the onion, garlic, & cilantro. Can you imagine burn it??? So i did & i tasted it & it tasted terrible but i added the fava beans & the rice & it turned out perfect!!I think we were married a whole year till i finally mastered that dish. Every time i make it i go crazy knowing i'm going to actually burn food to get the the correct product. It's maddening!! He was so happy & ate the whole pan that first time & he finally said i had become a real sephardic wife!
I tried to suprise my husband with his favorite cookies for Shabbos. I planned to make them quickly on Friday morning while he was at shul so I could continue to get back to the paper I had to write for school. Well with my mind on the paper, I ended up tripling the amount of sugar required. When I realized this, I was ready to toss the mixture, but when my husband came home, he was eager and excited to just triple the recipe. Instead of being done with the cookies early on in the morning, I was putting cookies in and out of the oven for 3 hours… at least we didn't have to make dessert for months.
When I was about 10 years old, my mom started me baking for Shabbat. She handed me the recipe card and pointed me to the KitchenAid and the pantry.
I mixed up the baking soda and the baking powder. the cake was inedible.
So my mom calmly tossed it, handed me the recipe card, told me to read more carefully and to do it again.
So I did. And baking became a regular chore of mine for Shabbat.
I met my wonderful husband shortly after Pesach 2007 and got married on August 22. Living on the east coast, we had decided to spend the entire Succos with my in laws in Chicago. Erev Yom Tov I decided to suprise my inlaws and cook them the most delicious london broil, (since my father in law is a HUGE meat guy.) While everyone was showering for yom tov i snuck into the kitchen with the london broil i had bought earlier that day and starting cooking. After about 15 minutes the smoke alarm started going off!!!! Everyone came running into the kitchen (my mother in law in her bathrobe) only to find me looking sheepishly at a burnt piece of meat. The first thing i cooked for my in laws was ruined! To this day my in law family still makes fun of their "new daughter in law who almost burnt down the house."
I have one word for you Gluten- Free baking, ok so that was more like 3 words, but still the impact was hopefully there. In my most recent pregnancy I developed a gluten intolerance that has continued to plague me. I crave brownies and cookies that melt in your mouth, cakes,oh do I miss cakes. My craving soon took over and i attempted the impossible, gluten-free baking. I searched the web and found recipes with images of moist cakes and divine baked goods , that would make the gluten full consumer drool. All I have to say is this …….Sand, lots and lots of sand. That is what most gluten free baking resembles, beaches full. This Is not a fun make cookies with the kids this is outright science, mixing the butter with just the right amount of sand like flour to get a gluten taste. Well I have not mastered this science and probably never will. I have made cakes that could stand on their own in an armored battle,cookies as flat and thin as paper, brownies that tasted a bit like chocolate sandy slurry. I have given up, and my family thanks me.
You say kitchen disaster, I say kitchen fun!
My motto: Everything in baking can be solved by ice cream, frosting, or whipped cream.
Some of my disasters have resulted from what I call "having my mind on more important things," but what others might call "absentmindedness." Take, my banana bread (which, by the way, is the best recipe ever … secret ingredient: lemon juice!). While I thought I was taking 1 scoop baking powder and 1 scoop baking soda, I actually took 2 scoops of baking power. Talking on a cell phone while driving is illegal? Maybe talking while baking should be too!
But the moral of the story is to salvage. I took that collapsed, weirdly brown looking cake, cut off the top layer and scooped the rest out like bread pudding. Add some vanilla ice cream, and YUM!
Other "disasters" have resulted from the well-known problem: the recipe is wrong. Take the red-velvet cupcakes. I searched and searched for what looked like the best recipe. I finally settled on one, but let's face it, it was mostly for the cream cheese frosting recipe that came with it. I added the amount of flour that they said despite the fact that I kept telling myself "this is way way too much." Popped 'em in the oven, and next thing I know: RED VELVET EXPLOSION!!!! Red velvetness spread between all the cupcakes, and overflowed. But again, after cleaning the oven, and eating the scraps, I did what any kitchen salvager would do. I cut the cupcakes out from amidst the mess, and put loads of cream cheese frosting on top. Sure, they may have tasted a bit flour-y, but not one person complained.
However, my favorite kitchen disaster, was really a kitchen miracle! Also born out of my absentmindedness, I read the recipe for a frozen dessert wrong.
What I did:
Blended a bag of frozen strawberries with a jar of marshmallow fluff. Pour into graham cracker crust. Top with whipped topping. Freeze.
What it actually said:
Blend a bag of frozen strawberries with a jar of marshmallow fluff. Whip topping and BLEND INTO STRAWBERRY MIXTURE. Pour into graham cracker crust. Freeze.
Everyone loved my dessert. And it was so simple that I've made it at least once a month since without ever looking at the recipe again. About two years later, I looked at the recipe and noticed my mistake. I decided to try the REAL recipe, and you know what? IT STUNK. It was bland and no one liked it at all.
Moral of the story — most of the time kitchen disasters can be saved. And sometimes, they're really just a blessing in disguise!
Chocolate mousse cups! 2 lbs of chocolate with an end result of 3 chocolate cups, several popped balloons and a face covered in chocolate. I'm composing myself when suddenly I feel something dripping on my head… I look up and realize that my ceiling is drenched in chocolate!!! Complete disaster.
I must preface this story: My father is a caring, loving and honorable man. He is not, in the slightest sense of the word, a cook.
Like most families, my mom was the cook and my dad was the garbage. Whether the food was delicious or disgusting you could count on dad to lick the plates clean. One day, mom stayed late at work and dad thought it was his chance to shine in the culinary spotlight. I cautiously volunteered to assist by making the more "complicated" foods like chicken and everything else, and assigned dad to the intricate task of making instant mashed potatoes. Add boiling water to potato flakes and mix; how could he possibly mess up?
Well, dad was busy "cooking" across the kitchen from me, when suddenly and without warning he yelled out "the potatoes aren't cooking." I took a look over at him, saw that he was using a spoon instead of a fork and calmly told him to add a little water, switch to a fork and mix well. After several minutes, he was still complaining so I finally made my way over to him. I looked at the bowl he was mixing, looked at the container in front of the bowl, and then looked up at him. My dad wasn't using potato mix, he was using flour!
You would think the story ends here, but my dad thought his boiling water and flour concoction was a true work of art. Instead of tossing it in the trash, my dad placed his gourmet "mashed potatoes" beautifully on a dinner plate next to the chicken and mixed vegetables that I had made. He sprinkled on some colorful spices, added a garnish and voila— a true masterpiece.
Eventually, mom came home and was so happy to find dinner waiting on the table for her. She sat down, took a bit of the potatoes and promptly spit it out and yelled "Bruce! What on earth is this!?" My dad quickly retorted, "What do you think? Mashed potatoes of course!"
Over 40 years ago I decided to make kreplach from scratch for yom tov. I diligently followed the recipe I found in a Jewish publication. Trying to roll out the dough was not possible. Therefore, my young son & I sat across the table from each other and began to pull the dough towards ourselves. This did not work out very well and we could not stop laughing while trying to stretch the dough. Needless to say, we did not have kreplachs for yom tov but instead gained happy memories.
It was long long ago. In the previous millenium. About 3/4 into the previous millenium.
My husband and I were recently married. Believe it or not, one of his favorite desserts (second, of course, to chocolates) was jello.
How can anyone possibly ruin jello? you ask. Actually, I was doing just fine, making him jello in mini pyrex one-serving bowls. But, alas, I wanted to show off, so I made jello and let it solidify in a tray of small molds. There were molds of fish, of a house, of miscellaneous objects. After supper, I took out the tray of molds and proudly displayed it before my husband. All that was left was to remove the jello from the molds and serve.
The instructions said something about putting the tray in water.
I wanted to save time, unmold and serve quickly. So, I placed the tray under running water. Suddenly, the fish came alive and started swimming in the sink, straight donw the drain! They were followed by all the other beautiful jello objects. All gone. Transformed into liquid and disappeared.
Boo, hoo!
So, I hosted a tupperware party and got myself some foolproof (I was the fool) jello molds.
We have lived happily ever after.
The end.
I grew up eating latkes at Chanukah, and one year my fiance (now wife) and I decided we wanted to try to make Sufganiot. So we got a good recipe, a bottle of oil with a high smoking point, and made the dough. We got a pot of oil up to a nice boil, put the dough in, and then tried to flip the sufganiot over with a spatula. A plastic spatula. Which melted on contact with the oil, leaving us standing there holding a handle over a smoking, stinking mess.
We've learned to make pretty wonderful latkes, but these days we go to Krispy Kreme for our sufganiot.
With nerves to the ceiling and people running to and fro,
It was erev Pesach and everything was almost set to go,
For a seder night full of Torah and stories of the past
There was more prepared food than at Yom Kippur break fast
In order to impress my wife and in-laws, I decided to bake
An apple crumble, everyone's favorite type of cake.
Recipe after recipe, I searched online
Until one came up that looked juuuust fine
"The Best Passover Apple Crumble", the title read
"There's no way I can botch this one" I confidently said
While gusto and bravado I started to prepare
With apples, sugar, and cinnamon flying everywhere
Lastly, 2 and a half cups of matzoh meal, the recipe called for
But I poured in the whole box, and in went the crumble past the oven door
Later that night, right before afikomen was served
I presented the apple crumble, a desset well deserved
Everyone took a piece, so excited to try the first bite
A delicious end to a wonderful Pesach night
"Bluuch!" came the first response, from my father in law
As my wife grimaced and managed a gulp with a twisted jaw
Next time, said my mother in law, can we make a deal?
Not to put in a whole box of matzah meal?
My wife once sent me out to buy a butternut squash. Dreaming of the delicious soup, I happily headed out to the various vegetable stands and carts in our area. None had butternut squash. I finally found one cart, whose owner had dubious English skills, that responded yes he had the squash. He handed me an item that did not look like butternut squash to me. However, never having purchased one before and only having seen it in photos I figured I should trust this man. After all vegetables were his trade. "Are you sure this is butternut squash?" I asked. "Yes, yes. Butternut squash" he replied. So I paid and brought it home to my wife who swore up and down that this item was not a butternut squash. After a few hours on google image we finally figure out it was…a papaya!
I need make egg less kugle as my son is allergic. I made it so many times I never thought I have a problem. Except until it was done! I realized I forgot a) to grease the pan and b) forgot egg replacer. I served it but my kids thought it was latkas.
My mother in law finally got all the married children and grandkids under one roof for Shabbos Nachamu in her summer home >>>>>
Friday afternoon, stomachs growling, everyone kept on eyeing all the pots and pans that were cooking…especially the "CHOLENT".
My mother in law "allowed" some sampling when it came to the potato kugel and farfel…But the "CHOLENT" was off limits!
Shabbos morning, Finally "cholent time"…my mother in law took out the roll of Kishka which was wrapped in waxpaper and buried deep in cholent for many hours..
To her horror, when she opend the waxpaper…was sitting a nicely smoked roll of GEFILTA FISH!!!!!!!!!
Not only did we not have Kishka….the cholent was "TREIF" too! Probably tasted terrible……..
Since that Shabbos, all of us make sure to sample the Cholent every Erev Shabbos!
One of my most memorable kitchen disasters was the time I wanted to do something nice for the College kids who lived on my floor (I was their resident assistant). I got up early on a Sunday to cook eggs and sausage for all of them and the floor above us in our college dorm. Not being used to cooking sausages (having grown up without it) let alone cooking for a crowd of 30, I put them all in the oven and inadvertently started a fire. Nothing says "angry college students" more like a fire alarm going off in their freshman dorm at 8 am on a Sunday…with an actual fire…. started by their very own RA. There were fire engines waking the entire campus as they drove in- and then they evacuated my whole tower building (not just two floors) There were some VERY angry folks scowling at me all week! What a disaster!
I am on the floor laughing! You guys are amazing for sharing all your kitchen nightmares with the world. I don't want yall to think that I G-d forbid take pleasure in anyone's embarrassment but it really feels good to know that I am not alone when it comes to kitchen confessions.
You know how it goes, I want everyone to win. I am so happy that you all took the time to comment. The good news is we will be running a contest EVERY week so if you don't win the KFWE tickets you will have the opportunity to win something next week. And if you really want to go (and I really hope to see you there) you can use coupon code JAMIE20 for $20 OFF the ticket price – but the code is valid only until Jan 31 – so please run to use it (http://kfwe2011.com/) before it expires.
Before announcing the winner I'd like to give honorable mentions to the following fabulous foodies:
SerenaC's – beautiful ice cream cupcakes that just wouldn't stop falling
LoriR's – fall and dafina wall mishap
Shoshana's – mother – who had to burn the food to gain her father's approval
Esti's – raw been chili
Shira's – Gefilte Chicken Soup
Erica's – Matzah Challah
Ira's – Sour Cream Coffee Soup
Sima's – Confectioner's Sugar Challah
Amy's – salty brownies
Jib's – Coffee table birthday cake
Jacim's – Confessions of a Sephardic bride
Bridewhothoughtshekneweverything – and almost burnt down her in-law's house
Sarah S's – red velvet explosion
dfischman's – chocolate rain
Naomi's – creative culinary father!
stepelma's – live jello fish
Robert Samstein's – butternut squash/papaya
And now for the winner…
Mazel Tov! you have just won 2 tickets WORTH $200 to KFWE2011 – the coolest and tastiest kosher food and wine experience in the world.
While everyone made me laugh Arielle actually was injured during the course of her kitchen disaster – so I think after second degree burns and boxing mitts she should enjoy the night out with a special someone!
Ariella I hope to see you and EVERYONE ELSE there!
Shabbat Shalom!
The first meal I ever made as a newlywed was (going to be) grilled cheese and tomato soup. The grilled cheese was ok but I was a little shaky pouring the tomato soup concentrate out of the can and completely missed the pot. Forty years later, my husband still loves telling that story.


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ERIE, Colo. (AP) — Unnoticed amid dozens of tract homes in the Denver suburbs, a nondescript industrial building is suddenly in the middle of the gun control debate in Colorado.
The company, started in an ex-Marine's basement in 1999, is in a standoff with Colorado Democrats who want to restrict the size of ammunition magazines after mass shootings in a suburban Denver movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school. Magpul has issued lawmakers an ultimatum potentially worth millions: Pass the bill, and the business will move.
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The warning from Erie-based Magpul underscores the political pressures Democrats are weighing as they advance the strictest gun-control measures lawmakers have ever considered in a state that still prides its frontier spirit. Other gun-control proposals include universal background checks, a ban on concealed firearms on campuses, and holding assault-weapon sellers and owners liable for shootings.
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Nuances are important to Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard.
Those who do not necessarily follow American finance in-depth might be operating under the impression that U.S. monetary policy is largely the same in 2013 as it was in 2012, Bullard said. Actually, he said, subtle changes have made U.S. monetary policy more aggressive than it was even six or nine months ago.
"The notion is that these changes have really added to an already easy U.S. monetary policy and has put the pedal to the metal," Bullard said. "It's not the simplest thing in the world, but I do think it's important, and ... I'm going to argue that (U.S. monetary policy) is easier than last year at this time."
Bullard spoke about monetary policy changes that he believes will help secure America's economic future during a special banking forum Mississippi State University's Department of Finance and Economics hosted Thursday at the Hunter Henry Center.
Sharon Oswald, MSU College of Business dean, said Bullard also visited business students earlier in the day, giving them a rare opportunity to meet one of America's top financial executives and gain from his perspective.
"This gave students the opportunity to learn about monetary policy from one of the people who sets it," Oswald said. "We're very lucky to host him and for him to be able to speak to our students."
Bullard's lecture focused on changes to two key facets of U.S. monetary policy that have changed recently. First, he discussed the nominal interest rate policy, which is the baseline upon which other American banks build their interest rates.
Previously, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) had pledged to keep the nominal interest rate near zero until 2015, Bullard said. Since near-zero rates are associated with slow economic growth, he said, this policy has caused pessimism among business leaders
"That could be interpreted as saying the economy is going to be terrible until 2015," Bullard said. "We didn't want to do that; that's counterproductive."
So, in December, the FOMC instead adopted thresholds for raising the nominal interest rate: an inflation rate of 2.5 percent and an unemployment rate of 6.5 percent. He said unemployment has declined gradually despite the slow growth of the economy, and he is optimistic that unemployment will continue to drop through 2013.
"We could be in the low sevens by the end of this year. Then, we'd be in striking distance of the 6.5 percent," Bullard said. "Thresholds are not a panacea. The U.S. economy is a $15-16 trillion outfit. It's not such that you can look at two numbers and get a complete characterization."
Second, Bullard discussed the balance sheet policy, which determines how the U.S. Federal Reserve uses quantitative easing (QE) to pump funds into the economy and simulate it. Previously, he said, the federal QE2 policy used a strategy known as "Operation Twist," buying and selling different maturity investments. He said the new QE3 policy adopted in Sept. 2013 has central banks buying assets outright at an aggressive pace of more than $1 trillion per year.
However, Bullard said, there are concerns that QE policies cannot continue forever, and the size of the QE balance sheet can make ending any given QE program difficult. As such, he said he recommends gradually lowering the intensity of QE as the economy gradually recovers.
"The (FOMC) has said it seeks substantial improvement in labor markets as a condition for ending the current asset purchase program," Bullard said. "Substantial labor market improvement does not arrive suddenly."
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Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find joy in life.- Written by r2k443
The quiet mechanic, Carter Chambers, has been married for forty-five years to his beloved wife Virginia and has three children. Of the two sons, one is a lawyer and the other an engineer; the daughter is a violinist. The caustic and bitter billionaire Edward Cole owns many hospitals, has been through his fair share of divorces and has one missing daughter. Following Edward's work ethics, rather than give him a private room during his stay, his hospital puts him in the same room as Carter. As time goes on the two men become close and when Edward finds Carter's 'bucket list' in the garbage, listing all he wanted to do before dying, he includes his own items on the list and invites Carter to a journey of friendship, discovery and redemption.- Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Edward (a rich man) meets Carter, when they in hospital. They both live different lifestyles, but become friends when they bond because of their common terminal illnesses. They later come together to make a list of things they want to do before they: "kick the bucket" (a positive list, which makes life better). They both start to make changes in life, where they both learn from each other.- Written by Jen Whitham
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Five per cent of the clinical trials conducted across the world will be in India by 2012. They are vital for confirming the efficacy of a new drug, but compromise on ethics. While doctors and organisations conducting trials make big bucks, the rights and safety of the subjects are often overlooked, says Ankur Paliwal
Nine-year-old Rani is unhappy. She has to stay away from her mother Janki Patel, who is taking part in a clinical trial at a centre 10 kilometres from her house at Bapu Nagar in Ahmedabad. "I do not like these trials. They take my parents away," says Rani.
In their late thirties, Janki and her husband Amar Patel attend trials so that they can pay Rani's school fee and earn two square meals a day. They are subjects of non-therapeutic trials conducted on healthy individuals to confirm efficacy of drugs launched abroad on Indians. One trial fetches them between Rs 5,000 and Rs 6,000. The money kept the Patels going after they lost their jobs as diamond cutters three years ago when the market crashed.
BA Research India Limited, a contract research organisation (CRO), asked Janki if she was willing to take a cancer drug which may have side-effects like vomiting and headache. Desperate for money, she gave in. CROs recruit participant, design trials, and manage and analyse data obtained from the trials.
Within two years, Janki has taken medicines for heart ailments, chest pain and fertility. She now complains of joint pain. Amar, who has undergone three trials, suffers blackouts. They spend their savings on their treatment now. When they approached the CROs—BA Research and Lambda—they were asked to prove that their ailments were side-effects of the trials. "I know it is sheer exploitation," says an agent who recruits subjects for CROs. "I am asked to focus on the poor because they desperately need money. A rich person rarely becomes a subject."
"When one person is given many medicines, it can have side-effects, especially if there is no proper spacing," says Deval A Parikh, consultant gastroenterologist at Jagmohan Hospital, Ahmedabad. Parikh conducts trials in the hospital.
Hundreds of kilometres away at Indore in Madhya Pradesh, Sooraj and Reena Yadav were clueless that their only child was subject of a clinical trial. In November 2009, four-year-old Deepak, whose growth is stunted, developed stomach problems. He was taken to Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, a government hospital for children. Doctors there, Ashish Dube and Nirbhay Mehta, said Deepak had "shrinkage" and abscess in the intestine, and would need prolonged treatment. "I was promised a monthly compensation of Rs 250 for wage loss and transport," says Sooraj, a vegetable seller. He was also told Deepak's medical tests would be free.
He came to know his son was being tested for a drug when Down To Earth read out the medical report to him. Deepak was being used to test Rebeprazole, an anti-ulcer drug made by Johnson & Johnson.
"We should have been told an unknown drug was being tested on our child and given the choice to say no," says a visibly disturbed Sooraj.
As per the law, the subject of a trial or his family must be given copies of the patient information sheet, informed consent form and clinical trial liability insurance policy, says Anand Rai, health activist and doctor. Deepak's doctors told Sooraj the medical records would be kept in the hospital.
Hemant Jain, principal investigator of the trial, claims Sooraj was given copies of all the documents. "He may have lost them," he says. Asked to produce the original papers, Jain said they were confidential.
Governed by Schedule 'Y' of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, clinical trials must be monitored by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) and ethics committees. No trial can begin without the ethics committee's consent. A body of at least seven members comprising professionals like pharmacologists, lawyers and sociologists, an ethics committee can be institutional or independent. It is this body's responsibility to safeguard the rights, safety and well-being of a trial subject. It should also check the trial design, ensure insurance cover and review informed consent forms.
The basic ethical guidelines for performing clinical trials is the Declaration of Helsinki issued by the World Medical Association. In India, guidelines have been set by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). But there is no law that makes the guidelines binding on those involved in conducting trials (see 'From lab to market', p35). Trials must also adhere to Good Clinical Practice guidelines of the International Conference on Harmonisation drafted in 1996. It facilitates mutual acceptance of clinical trial data by the regulatory authorities of Japan, EU and the US—the three major drug manufacturers. The United States Food and Drug Administration, however, recently said it will not require conformation to the Declaration of Helsinki for trials done outside the US.
Business of clinical trial
The global clinical trial industry is worth Rs 1,56,870 crore. Clinical trials conducted in India in 2008 were worth Rs 1,345 crore, shows data collected by Ziven Consulting, a Gurgaon-based clinical trial consulting firm. The figure may seem small but is growing at a staggering 65 per cent every year.
The trial business is likely to reach Rs 8,951 crores by 2012. In the next five years, India may conduct about five per cent of the global clinical trials, the firm's data shows.
Of the total cost of research and development (R&D) almost 70 per cent is spent on conducting trials. In 2010, US biopharmaceutical research companies invested Rs 3,02,086 crore on R&D, up from Rs 2,95,364 crore in 2009, states the report 'Putting CROs on the radar' of the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), a Dutch non-profit.
Clinical trials are conducted in four phases (see 'Phases of clinical trials',). It is the third phase which is most expensive. Conducted on 1,000-3,000 patients, it confirms the therapeutic benefits of a new drug. PhRMA, an association of drug companies in the US spent Rs 2,12,446 crore on R&D in 2008. In the third phase the drug companies spent a whopping Rs 69,022 crore. This calculates to 32.5 per cent of the total amount, the SOMO report states.
Multinational drug companies, therefore, outsource the third phase of trials to non-traditional research areas where cost is much less. Countries of Latin America and Eastern Europe, besides India, China and Russia, have become the clinical trial hotspots. About 50 per cent of the new drug applications submitted in the EU and the US say trials are being done in these countries, the SOMO report states.
"Compared to Western Europe and North America, these countries are less regulated. They have a less developed healthcare system and a relatively vulnerable population," says SOMO researcher Irene Schipper. Indian industry is the winner as it gets huge amounts when the currency is converted to rupee.
Boom time for CROs
Most pharmaceutical companies conduct trials through CROs, which have mushroomed to take advantage of this booming business opportunity. Its market in India has grown from Rs 423 crore in 2005 to Rs 1,611 crore in 201 0 (see 'Charting progress'). It is expected to cross Rs 2,721 crore by 2012, says SOMO.
According to CROs, payments cover expenses like recruitment fee, staff salary, equipment and communication. "The principal investigator—the doctor conducting the trials—gets Rs 25,000-Rs 30,000 per patient," says Sudip Sinha, vice-president and country manager, CliniRx, a Gurgaon-based CRO. The amount may increase to Rs 80,000-Rs 90,000 if trials are for complex diseases like cancer which take a long time to complete. The investigator gets 50 per cent of the amount budgeted for the trial because he is responsible for ethics approval, consent, recruitment and safety management, says Arun Bhatt, president of Clininvent Research, a Mumbai-based CRO.
Investigators in private hospitals are paid much more. Money ranges from Rs 70,000 to Rs 1 lakh per patient.
Regulatory authorities have no control over CROs. They are not mentioned in Drugs and Cosmetics Act and are not required to get registered. "They have mushroomed on their own to make money. If questioned, they can easily shut shop and disappear," says C M Gulhati, editor of Monthly Index of Medical Specialities. Anyone who is trained in clinical research and has good contacts in hospital and laboratories can set up a CRO, says Amit Sengupta, member of All India People's Science Network, a non-profit.
Taking advantage of poor regulations, many CROs compromise on ethics. They are called data producing shops. At times they do not report adverse events as it delays completion of the trial, says Divya Bhagianadh, researcher with the Centre for Studies in Ethics and Research (CSER) in Mumbai. They complete trials at least 30 per cent faster than pharmaceutical companies, states a SOMO report.
Destination India
Pharmaceutical companies prefer India because of low cost—almost 60 per cent less than the US or Europe. India has a large number of patients with acute and chronic diseases and lifestyle disorders. The country's genetic diversity also helps in achieving accurate results. "There are many ethnic groups in India. Testing drugs on people with different ethnicities helps get diverse data," says Sengupta.
Besides, India has a large "treatment naïve" population—people who have not been diagnosed or treated for specific diseases. This minimises interference of the effect of other drugs. "The US population is therapeutically saturated with most people taking six to seven drugs a day," says Mohan Rao, professor at the Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Maharashtra accounts for maximum number of trials conducted in India, shows data maintained by the CSER. Of the 882 trials registered till June last year, 239 were conducted in Maharashtra. A large number of trials are also being done in Delhi, Bengaluru and Ahmedabad.
In India, the earliest big trials were conducted in 1995 by Eli Lilly and Pfizer. Sanofi-Aventis, Bayer, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline and Merck followed in mid-2000. Conducting trials in India became easy after the 2005 amendment to Drugs and Cosmetics Act, which permits concurrent trials. According to this, second and third phase trials of drugs discovered abroad can be conducted in India in the same phase and at the same time as in other parts of the world. Earlier, companies had to repeat the first phase in India (see 'Trials in India',). "The amendment, which came due to industry pressure, opened the floodgates for companies to conduct trials here," says Sandhya Srinivasan, executive editor of Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME). "But government is promoting trials without setting up proper regulatory and monitoring structures," she adds.
Malpractices exist because very few professionals are trained to conduct trials ethically, says Sengupta.
Loopholes in law
Over the years, ICMR has revised guidelines to check malpractices. "But it seems the government has made them just to show that it is working. Ethics are being compromised at every level," says Amar Jesani, founder member of IJME, who has been part of several ethics committees. "The industry takes advantage of this." There is no check on the functioning of ethics committees. This has led to mushrooming of independent committees. "Ethics committee shopping has become a norm," says Sengupta. When the mandatory approval for trials is refused by one, pharmaceutical companies go to another. Ethics committees are not legally bound to make their decision public.
The ethics committee of Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) refused PATH, a US-based non-profit working in collaboration with the Indian government, the permission to conduct a clinical trial for HPV vaccine for cervical cancer in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. PATH then approached an independent committee in Vadodara which gave its approval, says N B Sarojini, coordinator at Sama, a Delhi-based non-profit for women and health. Seven girls died during the trial.
PHFI president K Srinath Reddy says the proposal was based on the assumption that HPV vaccine is safe and effective. "But no data was provided to substantiate it. Ethical aspects of the project were also not stated. We, therefore, rejected the proposal," he adds.
ICMR director-general V M Katoch admits loopholes in the system. "We will put in place a system where decisions of ethics committees are made public," he says.
Lack of monitoring of ethics committees has resulted in exploitation of the vulnerable section, says Sengupta. Patients with incurable diseases (see 'Diseases targeted,'), unemployed, poor, those under detention, refugees, and minors incapable of giving consent constitute the vulnerable section. This should be avoided, states the ICMR guidelines. The vulnerable become subjects as that is the only way they can get treatment. Studies show in most cases subjects are referred by their personal physician. Health activists say many subjects are taken for a ride as trials are often promoted as treatments. "They are actually experiments with possibilities of risk," says Sengupta.
Victims of Bhopal gas tragedy were made subjects of clinical trials without their informed consent. The trials were conducted in 2004 at the government-funded Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC) set up to treat them. They were tested to study the effects of the antibiotic televancin; tigecycline, which minimises antibiotic resistance; prasugrel, a drug for cardiovascular disorders; fondaparinux, which prevents blood clots; and a combination of the antibiotic cefoperazone and sulbactum, a chemical salt. Cefoperazone is no longer marketed anywhere. Fixed dose combination of cefoperazone with sulbactum was never approved in the US, home base of Pfizer which manufactured it, says Gulhati.
Except for fondaparinux, none of the medicines were approved for human use, says Gulhati. "Ethical standards in a country where trial is being conducted should not be any less stringent than in the country where the drug has been discovered. Can any hospital in the US dare to conduct trials on victims of disasters like Bhopal gas tragedy?" The trials began when concurrent trials were not permitted in India. In reply to an RTI query, BMHRC said it did not fall under RTI ambit.
The industry considers vulnerable people as guinea pigs, fumes Sengupta. But Shiv Prakash, managing director of Synchron, an Ahmedabad-based CRO, differs. "Clinical trial participants should be respected and hailed as heroes. Taking an experimental drug is like going to war. They are working in the larger public interest," he says.
"Soldiers in war are not lured by money," retorts Purushottam Parmar, an activist with RAAH, an Ahmedabad non-profit working for the uplift of clinical trial participants living in slums (see video clip of CRO Lambda offering huge sums to a subject to take part in a trial, on downtoearth.org.in).
The participant is the loser as far as post-trial access to a new drug is concerned. In most cases, the subject is denied the medicine after the trial is complete even if he benefits from it. The medicine takes a long time to reach the market, and when it does it is too expensive. This forces the participant to return to the previous mode of treatment. Besides expediting the process, pharmaceutical firms should be negotiated with for post-trial access to the drug, says Jesani.
The vulnerable are also victims of multiple trials within a short time. The ICMR guidelines (see 'ICMR guidelines on ethics') prohibit more than one trial on a subject unless there is a time gap of at least three months.
Bhagwati Gurung's name appears in the list of two trials conducted within two months at M Y Hospital in Indore. Both were conducted by Salil Bhargava, the hospital superintendent. "It could be typographical error," Bhargava claims. In the same breath, he argues two persons by the same name may have volunteered. At present, CROs do not track the number of trials performed on one person. Synchron, however, has devised a software which tracks all trial subjects through thumb impressions.
Bhargava is in the list of eight doctors against whom the government has initiated inquiry for alleged irregularities during trials between 2005 and 2010. The investigation committee had been asked to submit its report in November last year. It is still awaited.
Questions have also been raised over the constitution of the committee investigating the irregularities. Its members have earlier been associated with clinical trials. One of them, V K Saini, director, Medical Education, government of Madhya Pradesh, was the first to initiate trials in Indore.
RTI replies reveal Saini had violated laws. Trials, for instance, were initiated without the necessary government consent. He also did not deposit to M Y Hospital 10 per cent of the fund received from the drug firm for trials.
The money involved is usually huge, affecting the judgement of those involved in the trials.
Another RTI reply gives details of amounts received by doctors for conducting trials between 2006 and 2010 at MGM Medical College and M Y Hospital in Indore. Hemant Jain of the paediatrics department made Rs 75 lakh, Anil Bharani of the cardiology department Rs 65 lakh, Ashok Bajpai of medicine Rs 37 lakh and Salil Bhargava of chest and TB Rs 64 lakh. "A doctor's salary at MGM Medical College is between Rs 60,000 and Rs 75,000 per month. The RTI reply clearly shows trials are a dominant source of their income," says Anand Rai, health activist and doctor.
Pushpa Varma, professor at the ophthalmology department of MGM Medical College, reached an agreement with CRO Quintiles Research India Private Ltd to test moxifloxacin, a solution for conjunctivitis. The trial was sponsored by Alcon Research limited, a firm based in Switzerland. The payment was sent to her residential address—61, Juni Karsera Bakhal, Indore. She was paid Rs 26,000 per subject. The trials were done on 35 subjects.
An evolving system
The Indian clinical trial industry is in its nascent stage. The right push from the government can play a big role in improving its economy and healthcare, says Apurva Shah, chairperson of the Indian Chapter of Association of Contract Research Organisations.
"We are learning from our mistakes," says Katoch of ICMR. A step towards improvement is upgradation of the Clinical Trial Registry of India. Its website now makes it simpler to find the number of trials open for recruitment. Earlier, it was difficult to search a trial through a district's name.
But much more needs to be done on the website, when compared to the US.
Registration of trials became mandatory in June 2009, four years after the Act was amended. There is, therefore, no mechanism to track the trials which began before June 2009 and are still incomplete.
To ensure people's safety, DCGI started a trial inspection programme in November last year. It issued guidelines to inspect trials outsourced to India. The guidelines included inspection of trial sites, data irregularities, reporting of adverse events, review of informed consent forms and comparing trial design in the protocol with the ground situation. But shortage of trained staff at the DCGI's office made its implementation difficult. The health ministry has now reportedly released Rs 300-Rs 400 crore to the state drugs department to recruit and train staff to create a new task force.
But as Sengupta puts it, "The basic premise of a clinical trial is that a subject should participate voluntarily. This is difficult in the existing public health system. Until this is addressed, no matter what measures are taken, trials will continue to be conducted unethically."
When will the Indian Government open its eyes to the unethical practises being carried out in clinical trials and mostly on the poor, whose welfare is its responsibility?
This is a paid article. So called 'journalists" who actually write such articles doesn't even know A THING about trials. I question THEIR "ETHICS" first !
Group of people (including some doctors) are hell bent on creating fear in the minds of people against such researches. They have their own vested interests in creating such propaganda.
They should be ashamed of themselves and should be boycotted by the medical fraternity.
Drug trials are absolutely needed for the betterment of humanity.
I think friend good samaritan, the samaritan is the article author!
Nowhere it is being said that do not conduct clinical trials - just conduct it ethically, scientifically and sensitive to the rights of poor people. Even as I write this you must have seen reports of the trial in AP that went awry.
I work in the pharma industry and my experience is that unless there is proper regulation of these trials (at present there is practically next to none or those that are do not have any teeth), clinical trials itself will come under disrepute and the baby will be thrown with the bw. You do not want that situation do you?
Btw, who will the author get paid by? Pharma industry? Who else has the money?
Dear Fried
May god bestow upon you, family and likes some good medical trials. Humanity needs medical trails.Amen
Good Samaritans can lead themselves by example by subjecting themselves or their family members to this... rather than enjoying the fruits of subjecting other human beings as guinea pigs for these clinical trials in the name of human betterment.
Dear Good Samaritan
I hope you read the entire story. In fact in the story we acknowledge that clinical trials are important for drug discovery. The only and biggest objection is that these trials are not being conducted 'ethically'. The title of story suggests the same..Ethics on trial...
You miss the point, don't you. In case you can't see rather than choosing to ignore, It is the exploitation of weaker sections. Why don't you also volunteer to test ulcer medicines yourself for the betterment of humanity. Even in case of side effects a rich person will have money for treatment i guess. Well,greater common good for humanity now.
Dear Author /Editor
Congratulations for bringing such key issue (Ethics on trial, 1-15th June 2011 DTE)before the stakeholders.Clinical trial on the human beings should be transparent by way of:
@ Total documentary evidence on the use and impact of
@ Should inform the volunteers about the cause and
consequence of drugs used both on short and long
terms problems,
@ Clinical trial should not be considered as a
business but use it for the human health and
@ No volunteer should be forced and poverty or
vulnerability should not be exploited and it should
be with full acceptance,
@ Temporary monetary needs should not be compromised
the after effects on health and physical structure
@ Volunteer should be explained all there aspects in
the presence of their family members not the
agents and
@ Matching insurance both for health and life should
be arranged before the agreement.
Hope, these measures will resolve the present issue and help to do the process of clinical trial in an transparent and healthy environment which is acceptable to all the stakeholders.
I concurr with the views of N Lakshmi Narayana
Thanks Mr Ankur Paliwal for such a relatively untouched issue...
Excellent article and a great eye-opener.
Keep up the good work.
Excellent! very well-researched and comprehensive...
To the world outside, this is something they can not even imagine.
If the boss asks them to use their car to go for an official work, they would scream back- its unfair.
That is how different we are in desperation. To live.
But will the situation change after the article?
I have been pretty interested about this entire chaos and hulla boo about Clinical Trials that has been in the media in the past months. Being a final year law student and an ardent researcher of any subject under scrutiny,
Following are the points that the author of this article has blatantly refused to see and consider and the following are the ones which I have concluded after an extensive subjective and practical field research on the same:
1.the nuances of medical science are beyond the understanding of a normal Journalist. Hence before writing such article, which portrays clinical researches in bad light, medical personnels view should be published along with.
2. Infact, the results obtaine dby the trial mentioned above have been conducted in Govt Medical Colleges and they undergo rigorous scrutinty at all levels, namely:
a) Government;
b) Ethics Committee; and
c) Drug Controller General of India
3. furthermore, the patients so enrolled in the trial, sign informed consent forms in regional language which they fully udnerstand and they are given time to understand the procedure and withdraw if they want to from the trial.
4. Moreover, at the same time, the Internationally acclaimed Drug Trial companies, fully insure the patients so enrolled under the trial and even minor adverse events do not go unreported.
5. Also, these trials are post marketing trials, meaning thereby that the drugs have already been available in the markets since quite long. Therefore, all such drugs are known to be Phase IV drug Trials. Further, the relevant DCGI rules and the law made for the same requires these drugs to undergo a research in India by means of a medical Trial.
6. If such negative thoughts against Medical Trials are circulated by the media, without any authentication and truth in the content, the day would not be far when clinical researches would come to a complete halt in India and India would be devoid of any new research molecule.
For any pertinent and relevant query you can contact me on this forum.
Dear Pavi,
As it was also mentioned earlier, if you feel so strongly about it, first you must volunteer to undergo the trials... may be also include some of your family then understand what those families go through. I know that they need to follow the ethics code etc, but then why the poor are the targets? Would others also volunteer?
So talking is good, but then why the poor to be targeted? Don't their lives have value? What about the side effects which will last a life time? Who will pay for them?
As a researcher, I agree that a robust drug discovery program require phase trials. But it should be performed with atmost scientific and ethical guidelines and procedures. A similar incident happened in 1990's at Regional cancer Center, Trivandrum Kerala, where the cancer drugs from Johns Hopkins cancer instutute, USA, was used on patients without adequate measures. First of all, all the practices MUST BE conducted based on international norms to carryout these trials and tests.
Another point is to educate the volunteers. I am pretty sure that in most of the cases they throw themselves out there without proper knowledge. The whole process should be channeled though apt agencies that monitor the ethical aspects of human drug trials.
This article was really good. it was eye opener regarding how poor people are being exploited for the sake of clinical trials.Of course clinical trials are important for drug approval,but they must be carried out with full responsibility.Informed consent of the person is must.


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The holidays are supposed to be "the most wonderful time of the year". And they are for many reasons. I love spending time with my family, the food, the music, etc.
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As I get older presents become less about what I want and more about things that I "need" but can't afford (fellow college students will understand). There's no more child like wonder about what treasures lie beyond the packaged exterior of a gift.
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