Recipes NOT to be repeated!!

poorandindenial

HariboJunkie wrote: »

Delia's hoummus......... Bleuuuuuuurgh!!

I know that it is a year after HariboJunkie posted this but I was haven't seen this thread before and was reading through and thought to myself 'well the only thing that I have made that has been truly inedible was Delia's hoummus. Even as I made it I was thinking that th eproportions all seemed wrong. It is the most disgusting thing ever.

Am very glad, HariboJunkie, that it wasn't just me

Generali

It may sound odd as leeks and courgettes are both lovely but if you stew leeks and courgettes together in a little butter, the result is utterly vile. Not just a bit bad but unspeakably awful.

blue_monkey_2

Oh, I just had to add to this. Polenta Cake. People on Slimming World were raving about it so I thought 'why not' let's give it a go. Oh my, it was vile, nothing like a cake and a rubbery pile of cack that went right in the bin...... and had me reaching for real cake as I had worked myself up for it!!

Triker

blue_monkey wrote: »

Oh, I just had to add to this. Polenta Cake. People on Slimming World were raving about it so I thought 'why not' let's give it a go. Oh my, it was vile, nothing like a cake and a rubbery pile of cack that went right in the bin...... and had me reaching for real cake as I had worked myself up for it!!

Lol, I'm doing slimming world at the mo and tried the chick pea cake which tasted of salty chick peas....surprisingly enough. Yeugh.

Done the Lemon couscous cake which is really nice, well in a rubbery sort of way.:D

Alikay

Rosemary Conley's low-fat pizza was pretty nasty and I once made mushroom soup which tasted fine but was a really unappetising slate grey.

Hawthorn

Alikay, my mushroom soup looks like that too - I sprinkle some fresh herbs on. A touch of parsley does the job nice.

My worst recipe ever? Toffee. It was from an old recipe book, and was talking about hard crack/soft crack stages, and I didn't know what they meant at the time, so I just boiled it for a few minutes, then took it off the stove. Poured it into my tin, and left the kitchen.
I went back to it a half hour later, and the kitchen was filled with smoke!!! I didn't know that toffee continued to cook for a few minutes after. Well, it set like tar, and I was really dirt poor and couldn't afford to lose my tin and pan - it took almost two weeks of soaking to get it off.

I have tried tons of cookbooks over the years, and have rarely been satisfied with the recipe as is.
These days, the only thing I follow a recipe for is baking - pastries/cakes/biscuits (though I do faff with the biscuit recipes too LOL)
Savoury stuff is made possibly using a recipe for basis, and then adjusting it to taste, but more often than not I just throw something together and it comes out well.
I kinda made a rod for my own back though. We used to get takeaway curry as a treat. Now, my hub prefers mine, dammit. This is good in some senses, but one of my curries is a lot of work and sometimes it would be nice to just pick up the phone LOL.

One of my disasters, the kids loved. We had a pork joint, and it was a bigun, and lasted a few meals. Came to the last day, and bright spark here decided it would be good minced. NEVER mince cooked pork. It. Is. Vile. We added apples and beans and a few herbs and spices and the kids adored it. Hub and I couldn't bear it *shudders*

floyd

Triker wrote: »

Lol, I'm doing slimming world at the mo and tried the chick pea cake which tasted of salty chick peas....surprisingly enough. Yeugh.

Done the Lemon couscous cake which is really nice, well in a rubbery sort of way.:D

I remember back in day when I did Slimming World that people were raving about the cous cous and chick pea cakes and the lasagne sheet mock doritos. I made the doritos and although they tasted OK when they were still hot, as they cooled down they just tasted of greasy raw pasta and I got the worst gut rot, like they had sucked every drop of moisture from my stomach :eek:

I am now of the opinion that I would rather have a half portion of the real full fat, full cream version of most things cakey than eat any of the minging Slimming World desserts

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Generali wrote: »

It may sound odd as leeks and courgettes are both lovely but if you stew leeks and courgettes together in a little butter, the result is utterly vile. Not just a bit bad but unspeakably awful.

I love both of these but have to agree they just taste unbelievably slimy and gross when served up like this.Strangely gloopy.

TKM

Anything from Camellia Panjabi's "50 Great Curries of India" - absolute gank - Madhur is infinitely superior.
Also made a Four Cheese Gnocchi from Delia - horrid - went straight in the bin.

hotcookie101

TKM wrote: »

Anything from Camellia Panjabi's "50 Great Curries of India" - absolute gank - Madhur is infinitely superior.

I agree-I love Madhur-but I made the quick chickpea curry from the Ultimate curry bible and it was horrid You added garlic and ginger paste to it once there was sauce in and it just tasted of raw strong garlic and ginger, couldn't eat it& haven't made it since but will cook that first if I do try it again. But otherwise the recipes are fantastic-I love the lamb with potatoes Mmmmmm.

OH once made a lamb stew with cider, and maybe some vinegar too (I think it was possible from Waitrose online but may be wrong)-made with ALL the leftovers from a slow roast shoulder (there is only 2 of us-so LOTS of leftovers) and it was so disgusting we couldn't eat it! all in the bin! Am not sure if I can blame the recipe or his interpretation of it though to be honest, he once made something that the recipe said to brown the beef, and there should be brown residue on the pan (not quite those words but similar) I said, mm that looks a bit burnt and he said "but the recipe said to cook it until the pan went black!" :rotfl::rotfl:

He is a really good cook usually though