Recipes NOT to be repeated!!

Churchmouse

Greenqueen wrote: »

This is a taste I dont advise! With the family round one afternoon, I went to brew up. Some wanted coffee and some wanted tea. After filling the teapot and leaving it to brew I put coffee powder in the mugs. Unfortunately I then absentmindedly filled them from the teapot instead of the kettle. YUK!

This is something I have done rather too often! I have, however, never tasted the resultant brew:rotfl: :rotfl:

lbt_2

This thread is hilarious!

I cannot cook turkeys. They are so big, and I am terrified of giving everyone food poisoning. The temperature never seems to get high enough, until it is tough and dry.

I learnt to cook from my Mary Berry complete cookery book - I absolutely love her books - everything comes out looking just like the picture and I feel very clever:rotfl:

I am more confident now and like others who have posted - I tend to use recipes as a guide and make the rest up as I go along.

patchwork_cat

I completely second Mary Berry my copy of her book is falling apart. If I want a no fail recipe straight to Mary Berry complete cookbook

freyasmum

thriftlady wrote: »

Well, 15g is a tbsp as I said I don't make them anymore as I've found much better biscuit recipes elsewhere. Anyway, sorry again and please don't judge all my recipes by this one -the chocolate fudge pudding is really good -honest

Can I just second thriftlady's chocolate fudge pudding - delish (especially with hm ice cream... or am I just a glutton?! Lol. I love the hot/cold of it).

Lx

Spirit_2

Jamie Olivers "Peposo" (Italy)

Beef stew - main ingredients for 10 people

4 heaped table spoons freshly ground black pepper
20 garlic cloves
2 bottles Chianti
5.5lbs beef

I scaled this down for my family and only used half the meat so halved the wine.

On cooking it had the most pungent smell and the steam made your eyes water. To eat, it was dynamite:eek:. Unfortunately I had included the pepper and garlic in the original quantities.


Sorry Jamie, if you are reading this, do not blame yourself. You only write the recipes and probably expect us to have a modicum of common sense on any adaptations.

Spirit

JoeyEmma

patchwork_cat wrote: »

I completely second Mary Berry my copy of her book is falling apart. If I want a no fail recipe straight to Mary Berry complete cookbook

I made one of the chocolate oat squares from a Mary Berry Easy Cakes book. It was terrible. Can't remember the recipe exactly, but it had plain flour and oats in and only about 2oz of butter, with no eggs or syrup or anything to bind. They were dry powdery crumbly nonsense that definitely wouldn't slice into squares. Interestingly enough my other half still ate them!

ampersand

pigpen wrote: »

Can I add Pumpkin soup to my inedible list??? Any superb ideas how to make it edible.. other than slice off my taste buds!!!

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This is the one! This is the one!
http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=41292
Sorry for delay - it freezes beautifully. Don't be misled - it seems watery thawed, but thickens up when heated.
Gorgeous.

kizzykizzywizzy

This thread has had me almost wetting myself!!
I don't come to this board very often at all usually on comps or DFW, but I will be back!
Worst disaster, not because it tasted bad but because i was so poor & bought some beef reduced, a real treat & made bouef bourginon ( can't spell ) when getting it out of the oven smelt fantastic, dropped the lot on the floor:mad: almost licked the floor. Also tried to make brandy snaps came out as brandy splats didn't set at all!
The book I use the most is a 70's copy of The Dairy Cookbook, just for things like sauces & pastry etc

competitionscafe

thriftlady wrote: »

I've also had problems with Nigel Slater's recipes -the spiced rice dish from Appetite -much too much liquid, and the braised oxtail from same book -not long enough in oven.

Nigel Slater's oxtail from Appetite - was going to make this next week (already ordered the Oxtail), so thanks for that - how much longer does it need and apart from that is it good? Or if not do you know a good alternative recipe for oxtail? o

Must admit everything I have made from that book has been fab, especially the pork thai meatball things (particularly the variation in chicken stock broth), never tried the spiced rice dish though - have made a note in the book in case I do.

competitionscafe

cbsexec wrote: »

My main complaint is why do mine never look like the pictures in the books

So true! But I think for most books they use 'food stylists' to do things to the food to make it look so good. Here's a pic I took of a dish I made from Jamie Oliver's Italy book comapring mine with the photo in the book Still tasted yummy though!

Melanzane alla Parmigiana:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marksouthgate/398383986/