Recipe disasters thread.

jaybee

When I first met my OH and his 2 kids I couldn't even manage to cook fish fingers without burning them:rotfl: . That's what comes of living alone for years and existing on cereal etc. I promise you, beans on toast was serious cooking to me then :eek: (plus the odd Mars Bar).

I have moved on since then but I admit tham I am still seriously lacking in good basic cooking stills (pastry and so on).

My best disaster was a Mississippi Mud Pie - had to throw the dish away as it was sooo cemented to it :rotfl: - just as well nobody tried to eat it because I think they would have broken their jaws!

There are many other disasters but, hey, everyone has survived . . . . so far!

Peem

One disaster - not really a recipe - but the meal was not as expected

One morning a loooong time ago Dad and I were first up since I had to go to school further away than everyone else and Dad had to get to work. We heated up the porridge sitting in the saucepan (we always ate pinhead oats which have to be soaked overnight before cooking) and ate it. Thinking it was a bit fine for porridge, but we carried on and went off on our separate ways.

Got home at night to an irate mother - we'd eaten the flour and water she'd left in a pan ready to do something with that day (for the life of me I cannot remember what she was going to do with it- wall paper paste possibly).

We were true children of the seventies brought up on lentils and barley - so flour and water didn't seem that out of the ordinary

And the other week I was making oatmeal muffins with DS (rolled oats this time) once the mixture was in the cases and had been cooking for a couple of mins I suddenly remembered we hadn't added the oats. So we whipped them out, scraped the mixture out of the cases, added the oats and put it all back in new cases. Tasted fine. But DS thinks MIL is a better cook - she doesn't need a recipe, or have to weigh things, her cakes come out of a box:rotfl:

Colxfile

I once tried to make carbonara, but I was making it up as I went along. Inevitably the result was scrambled egg.

But I bounced back! Today it is the one dish I brag about the most

snoozer

I made a pea soup with a ham hock in it - I still don't know what happened but think it had something to do with the ancient table spoon given me by MIL. The resultiing pea soup mix turned grey black and had a horrible metallic taste.

frugalfairy_3

Back in the Dark Ages when I was a newly wed and trying out new recipes etc on my unsuspecting OH I mis-read the recipe for chilli and added one heaped tablespoonful of chilli powder instead of a teaspoon. Nearly took his head off :eek: :eek: :rotfl:

VickyA_2

When I was a student, living in a shared student house, we used to share the cooking - my night was a Monday. Anyway, I had lovingly copied out a recipe from some yummy sounding recipe with rice and chicken that you cooked in the oven (can't remember it all as it's never been tried again :whistle:). Anyway, after giving more than long enough in the oven, the rice wasn't cooked and nor was the chicken (it was still raw ).

Needless to say, that night I had to pay for four lots of fish and chips.