Recipes NOT to be repeated!!

mrslovetocook

Hi Olliebeak, this is a really easy banana loaf. Like you I never found one I liked, but this is yummie.


50 grams butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup S.R flour
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 large ripe banana
1/2 pkt chocolate chips

Melt butter in pan, remove from heat

Add sugar, egg and vanilla to pan

Mix

Sift flour into pan. Do not mix yet

Add mashed banana and milk to pan

Mix

Add chips

Pour into greased loaf tin

Bake at 160o for 35-40 min

Lobell

Oh I love this thread! I have been howling with laughter at it all afternoon!

I don't have that many cooking disasters. Well, I think I don't but I will admit that my DH has a lead lined stomach and there is practically nothing that he won't so all my cooking goes down well with him....with one memorable exception for which I blame Ainsley Harriot entirely! It was from AH's Low Fat Meals in Minutes cookbook, IIRC. Smoked Aubergine Curry. Now, I don't recall why I thought that was ever going to be appetising but I must have had aubergines to use up or something. Suffice to say that the resulting dish had the appearance, consistency and flavour of vomit _pale_ Even DH only managed a few spoonfuls before admitting defeat. He caught me slopping some into the dog's dish and threatened to report me for animal cruelty I think it's the only thing in this house that has ever gone straight in the bin.

If anyone wants a copy of Ainsly Harriot's Low Fat Meals and Minutes, I believe my local charity shop has one available...;)

tessie_bear

ive tried to make a few recipes out of mail on sun mag everyone has not turned out...mostly cakes

Aliiyn

I'm lucky, as my DBF does all the cooking in our house meaning if anything goes wrong I'm the person who gets to turn their nose up!

Saying that, one of my best diasters that I can remember stemmed from Year 8 food technology. Our teacher decided that doing a breadmaking project would be a great idea. It was in theory....only problem is that we had 40 minutes per lesson in which we were not only supposed to knead the dough, let it rise but also bake it :eek: Needless to say all our efforts turned out horribly. The only thing from that 6 week period that had any use was my breadsticks: my friend and I spent a lunch period after food tech being pirates and using them as swords! They never broke despite our best efforts, they were that solid :rotfl:

CFC

Georgiabay wrote: »

Gillian McKeith's Cinnamon Rice Pudding. This is her healthy version of one of my favourite puddings and was supposed to be 'fantastic'. The ingredients are long grain brown rice, rice milk, cinnamon sticks and lemon juice and zest. No sugar as it's 'naturally sweet'.
Oh so wrong - it was terrible!
And the worst part was that I'd halved the recipe for two but ended up with a great big panful which would have fed six.

Well she doesn't care what stuff TASTES like providing it is full o fibre!

Brown rice rice pudding with rice milk and lemon juice and no sugar lol lol lol

:rotfl:

Olliebeak

mrslovetocook wrote: »

Hi Olliebeak, this is a really easy banana loaf. Like you I never found one I liked, but this is yummie....

Many thanks for that one, mrslovetocook. I've added that to my recipe folder on the comp and will give it a go during the week, when my cake stocks have been guzzled by my dk's (they're not kids really (36,30&29!)but just eat like them!).

Trinny

npsmama wrote: »

I'm SO :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:!!!!

I tried making Nigella Lawson's Fried Calamari which not only was horribly expensive (£7 on the calamari for 2 people :eek:) but it didn't work. The cornflour/semolina mix came off the calamari in the oil.
I even went to the trouble of making up some Old Bay Spice.

What a waste!

I think I'm no longer a fan of Nigella having made her Mustard Pork Chops and getting a just-about-edible result.

So what are your 'not-to-be-repeated' recipes?

I bought a Delia cookbook and made a meditaranean stew for a dinner party - it was really expensive - right down to toasting coriander seeds! The whole thing was totally inedible - and it was pretty embarrasing - think the "green soup" sequence in Bridget Jones.

To be honest i am not the worlds most confident cook but i am trying really hard to get better at OS. My OH is really supportive and will usually eat most things i make - and says i am improving vastly.

I only use cookbooks now which i can follow and where i can be really sure things will turn out ok.

IMHO - Jamie rocks - everything i have made has turned out exactly right. I am also learning to bake - (another OS new habit) and i only use Mary Berry - an ancient baking book i was given. Again - for some reason her recipes work. If i search for stuff on the NET then try to follow the recipe - that seems to be an instant recipe for disaster.

I feel the pain npsmama

Take care

Trin

FreebieRocker

I wouldnt suggest making Skittle Scones. The Skittles explode in the oven and make a lot of mess. I doubt anyone here would try it but just a warning in case kids want to try it or anything like that!

MrsE_2

npsmama wrote: »

I'm SO :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:!!!!

I tried making Nigella Lawson's Fried Calamari which not only was horribly expensive (£7 on the calamari for 2 people :eek:) but it didn't work. The cornflour/semolina mix came off the calamari in the oil.
I even went to the trouble of making up some Old Bay Spice.

Batter always slides off things like that when I try.

I try it with prawns & it doesn't work:(

myrnahaz

I made Stifado (from a recipe in this month's asda free magazine) that was inedible. Even my DH failed to eat it (and he's like a dustbin). It was basically beef in a mulled wine kind of liquor - with vinegar and honey added. It tasted like vomit.