I often put a portion or two in a small container. Sometimes I forget about one or more.

[Ptah]

I'm sure I'm the only cook that has found this in my fridge.

[Lucinda]

1. Prettiest mold evah!

[Ptah]

3. It used to be apple cobbler.

[Lucinda]

4. I wondered if it was apples...lol

Good guess on my part! Apple cobble would NEVER get a chance to mold around here.

[freshwest]

6. Surely you edited the color? That's an amazing blue there. I like it.

Actually, I am pretty wild about tossing food in the freezer to preserve it. Bread or cheese mold doesn't happen when it goes straight from the store to the freezer. And I gave up on fresh milk, I just don't eat fast enough.

However, I see your science experiment turned out rather well, LOL!! That's a keeper there! Uh, the picture, not the cobbler...

[elleng]

2. Yup; mine's usually green!

[Staph]

5. In my family

those are referred to as "science experiments".

[freshwest]

7. Ah, you got here before me. Yes, that was.

[Warpy]

8. Your science project is prettier than my science projects

but I never seem to abandon anything sweet and that probably makes the difference.

I've had plain yogurt grow some lovely pinks and oranges, though.

[HopeHoops]

9. Carlin: "Have you ever found something in the fridge that you couldn't identify at all?

Could be meat. Could be cake. Maybe it's meat cake. So you call out 'Honey, is this still good?' and she says 'Smell it", so you do. 'Actually it has no smell whatsoever!' and she answers 'Put it back. It will turn up in something.' And that's what I'm afraid of."

I've got three teenage daughters (well, one's twenty with a boyfriend who eats like a horse), so leftovers aren't the problem they used to be. They're a bigger problem now - they disappear on me! I get all psyched up about lunch and what I want is GONE!