Disasters that tasted delicious

frugglewump

I was trying to make a raspberry sauce for pancakes on tuesday (punnet of rapsberries, caster sugar & water) and forgot about it until a slightly burnt smell reached the front room. On returning to the kitchen I seemed to have made lightly burnt raspberry jam instead - which was very very nice on the pancakes.

Also, accidentally added red bisto to bolognese sauce, because it was in an unlabelled box & i thought it was stock. Slightly salty, but nice.

What mistakes have you made that turned out to be quite nice?

Bogof_Babe

Just about to put tea on - I'll tell you shortly .

Serious answer is, I'm a rubbish cook anyway, so we just eat whatever it turns out like. Remember Mia (Wendy Craig) in Butterflies? She's my alter-ego .

Edit: Drat I couldn't even get that right, it was Ria not Mia :rolleyes: .

jaybee

I went to the Butterflies Cookery School too!!

Sharra

When i was at school we made chocolate sponge cakes - one girl used icing sugar instead of flour by mistake. She made this wonderful gooey chocolatey mess that tasted gorgeous.

frugglewump

Sharra wrote:

When i was at school we made chocolate sponge cakes - one girl used icing sugar instead of flour by mistake. She made this wonderful gooey chocolatey mess that tasted gorgeous.

Oh that sounds nice. Wonder what it would be like as an icecream topping (i can just hear the lbs piling on) :rotfl:

Curry_Queen

I've had plenty of disasters in the kitchen and my boys are getting quite used to being used as guinea pigs for my culinary experiments :rotfl:

The comments vary from "thanks mum, that was nice - but don't cook it again please" to "yuk! ... you expect me to eat that!" or they absolutely devour it and beg me to make it again, but it's not easy trying to re-create a disaster :rotfl:

HOLsale

i made some homemade cream of asparagus soup but made it a bit too salty (too many stock cubes) i'd also made some rolls that day that weren't really exciting so i tore those up and put them in the soup... looked like a dogs dinner but it was gorgeous in the end :T

also, i made a recipe off the internet for rhubarb conserve, came out more the consistency of chutney... but we ate it, it was quite tasty

moggins

Disasters are just one step on the ladder to culinary dreams

HOLsale

personally i'm fairly certain that some of our favourite food and drinks were due to 'disasters'

cheese
yogurt
alcohol

all spring to mind

krishna

When I was a child, living in India, my mother tried to make some ginger shortbread using vegetable ghee instead of butter (butter was expensive). Unfortunately it wouldn't hold together so we ended up with lots of crumbs. Well, rather than waste it my mother served it up for breakfast (!!) as "mother's special ginger crumble flakes". They were delicious. For years afterwards we would ask her to make them again, but she could never remember exactly what she had done.

I've done similar things with our kids (making up fancy names for flops), but none come to mind at the moment.

Jay-Jay_4

One of my favorite drinks as a child was Horlicks with 'floaters'

This was because my Mum NEVER EVER reads instructions on things and so instead of mixing the powder with a bit of milk then adding the rest of the milk...... she added the spoonfulls of Horlicks to hot milk, hence leaving lots of blobs of powder floating in the drink...... mmmmmm 'floaters' !!!!! We thought that we were having an extra treat if there were floaters and we were heartily disappointed if there were none