Recipes NOT to be repeated!!

vivaladiva

Got my rice flour in Mr Ts - it was in the Asian section. It's much more floury than ground rice. As in it's like 'proper' flour (I'm not putting this very well am I?).
I just need to remember what recipe I needed it for:o, maybe I should make some shortbread:D.

mummygems

I also got my rice flour in the Asian aisle of my local Asda.

I have to say the worst shortbread recipe I have ever made (and it might just be me) is the shortbread for the Chocolate Caramel Cakes from the How to feed your family..... book. If I make them again I will use my own shortbread recipe (from my River Cottage book) and halve the amount of caramel lol. Like I say it probably went wrong because of something I did.

Penelope_Penguin

npsmama wrote: »

I did think it was odd that they used margarine rather than butter but i thought i'd try it. unfortunately, it smelled horrible and tasted awful.

Shortbread without butter si plain WRONG Reminds me of the flapjack I once made with sunflower oil :eek: :eek: :eek: Never again

I'll add this to the existing thread on never to be repeated recipes.

Penny. x

ampersand

Mr T had(still has, I think) rice flour in two different sections. With flour, I've had it at 64>69p; with Asian/World ingredients, the identical item was £1.27 and £1.29. A Mr T lady and I laughed about it. Not long ago, we found them in the same aisle, about 3m apart.

competitionscafe

They do that with other things to - cashew nuts in the baking section were half the price(£ per kg) of those in the 'wholefoods' section!

~*Plushroom*~

anniestar wrote: »

Re Nigella, my DH feels that this woman has revealed latent aspects of his character:rotfl: :rotfl: he falls into her target audience(middle aged, middle class) and yet would rather render himself insensible by repeatedly smashing himself in the face with a (high quality) frying pan than gaze upon her porcine overly-made-up face as she mauls innocent vegetables in a supposedly suggestive manner.He assumes this is not the intended response:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: (I have typed this as he dictated every word!)

Oh that has made my day! Definitely distracted me from feeling ill! I get the same feelings about her too, but to hear it coming from her target audience is hysterical!

The only recipes I've learnt to steer clear of are 2 old St Michaels cookbook recipes for toffee and coconut ice. The first ended with a blackened cement style covering over the pan that took me 3 hours to chip off (I was determined to not let it get the best of me) and the second, though very tasty, was far too dry the way they did it and wouldn't actually set. Didn't stop my family scoffing the coconut ice, but it was rather messy as it fell apart in dry crumbs - next time I'm going to judge it myself!

MrMicawber_2

My biggest disaster (and I've had a few on the cooking front - pilchard curry being one) was making a meal for guests coming round which involved aubergines. The recipe said 'continue adding olive oil until the aubergines soak up no more'. Well, it was like blotting paper, it must have absorbed about half a litre of oil and was still going before I thought enough was enough. The meal was truly horrible and we couldn't face aubergines for a long time.

In one of my more money saving moments I tried to make a curry with some herring which had been in the freezer for rather too long a time. Not good. I know herring is not a conventional staple in curries but I was feeling imaginative and thought it might work. It didn't - probably worse than the aubergines.

(Most of my meals are actually OK but these two were certainly big mistakes).

Boil in the

Churchmouse

Thanks to all of you who have saved my blushes by revealing there is such a thing as "rice flour", as opposed to ground rice:D I actually have looked in the Asian sections of my local supermarkets as I thought that was a possibility. Now I'll have a closer look, but if all else fails, it's Holland and Barrett or ground rice.

Esor

I'm well known for my cooking...because it's normally awful!

My sister and I decided to make fudge but used an American recipe, realised later it was tablet, we baked it for far too long coz it looked wrong for fudge, it was vile, lol.

Today I made white sauce for the first time and initially just dumped the flour in the pan, there were boulders in there! Sieved it and slowly added more flour, it was still lumpy. My OH came in from work and whisked it for me and it was saved, yay! Can't think of any more right now as too tired but I'm sure I'll remember some soon, my Mam has also had a few funnies!

This thread has given me a right laugh and made me feel better about my attempts!

Seahorse1_2

Years ago (and we still laugh about it!) Mum decided to make sausage rolls. She already had some pastry in the fridge. Unfortunatley...it was sweet pastry! She calmly removed the sausages and replaced them with tinned cherries and we had that for pudding!! We still now tease her about cherry rolls!!:rotfl: