Recipes NOT to be repeated!!

Lucycat

Thanks to all for posting on this thread, have had to stop reading several times to wipe away the tears of laughter! :rotfl:

I have had many and varied cooking disasters over the years - it's only now I've got two children and a slow cooker that things are finally starting to come together!

The most recent one was the bread recipe from a Jamie Oliver book - we made a double quantity (half for bread, half for pizza base), and it was horribly salty and wholly inedible - what a waste of an afternoon (and pizza toppings!)

Edit to add: I've just Googled the recipe and the online version has HALF the salt listed in my cookbook! Wonder if I can get a refund - for useless book, wasted ingredients, replacement taste-buds...

pukkamum

My DH recently decided to cook a romantic dinner for us.
He wanted to recreate the mushrooms in a creamy garlic sauce on toasted french bread we had had at a restaurant as a starter.
Unfortunately he thought that using a WHOLE tub of philly garlic cream cheese on barely cooked garlic bread with some fried (in masses of oil) mushrooms would be the same.
It SO wasn't it was just a thick gloop on soggy bread!!!
He was so pleased with himself i had to eat it all whilst trying desperately to supress my gag reflex!!!!!

trixietoes

HariboJunkie wrote: »

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

Snap, and her Guacamole too... put me off making either again.

I also made her beef in guiness with pickled walnuts .... yuck

skintmumof3

just made gillian mckeiths` chickpea burgers......
urrgghh they were vile. i tried to add some curry powder to try and spice them up....uurrgghh even worse.
but i gave a bit to the guinea pig and she loved it.......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so i made someone a bit happy...lol

Olliebeak

Just been working my way through this thread - don't think I've noticed it before .

I know this was posted a while ago, but couldn't resist replying to it, buxton.

buxtonrabbitgreen wrote: »

the weetabix cake from a recipie on this site. We all thought it was disgusting.

I saw the same recipe and thought 'mmmmmm sounds lovely' - and then was so disappointed by the dry, crumbly result.

Re-reading the recipe, I'm sure there must be 'something' missing from it. There is nowhere near enough liquid in there to cope with the amount of dry ingredients - especially as 2 weetabix soak up a huge amount of milk by themselves - and no fat of any kind (marge, butter or oil) or eggs.

I've googled Weetabix Cake recipe and found lots on-line - including this one and they all have an egg listed in the ingredients.

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/5980/weetabix-loaf-cake.aspx

Maybe time to try again .

mandragora_2

there was the time when my husband, in a fit of unchaperoned domesticity made a casserole and mashed potatoes. Casserole was fine; potatoes, a little, well, Christmassy, really.

To add flavour he added in mixed spice - he's never really believed in the difference between herbs and spices.

celyn90

mandragora wrote: »

there was the time when my husband, in a fit of unchaperoned domesticity made a casserole and mashed potatoes. Casserole was fine; potatoes, a little, well, Christmassy, really.

To add flavour he added in mixed spice - he's never really believed in the difference between herbs and spices.

:rotfl: :rotfl: I once made apple turnovers with chinese 5 spice powder by mistake. They were err.... intresting. OH still ate them, but he would have if I'd have shoved tabasco in them.

jvs

I have just made my first lemon drizzle cake. I mis read the recipe and ended up having to guess the ingredients for the recipe - just giving DH a piece and he said it was the nicest cake he had ever tasted - don't know what quantities of ingredients I have used!!!! Typical!

Olliebeak

I've also been very disappointed with all the banana bread/cake recipes that I've ever tried. One of them is not too bad but uses wholemeal flour - I'm going to try that one again but using ordinary SR flour.

These days I find that anything 'wholemeal' (including bread) lies heavily on my stomach and gives me indigestion - maybe my body is just telling me to 'lay off the cakes!'

mandragora_2

Lucycat wrote: »

Thanks to all for posting on this thread, have had to stop reading several times to wipe away the tears of laughter! :rotfl:

I have had many and varied cooking disasters over the years - it's only now I've got two children and a slow cooker that things are finally starting to come together!

The most recent one was the bread recipe from a Jamie Oliver book - we made a double quantity (half for bread, half for pizza base), and it was horribly salty and wholly inedible - what a waste of an afternoon (and pizza toppings!)

Edit to add: I've just Googled the recipe and the online version has HALF the salt listed in my cookbook! Wonder if I can get a refund - for useless book, wasted ingredients, replacement taste-buds...

Noooooo - don't cook the children.. They're not as tender as they look, even if you put them in the slow cooker....