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Recipes NOT to be repeated!!

npsmama · 2007-09-12 17:50:32

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…

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hotcookie101 Posts: 2,060 Forumite

19 April 2009 at 8:43PM

myrnahaz wrote: »

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.

Don't give up on Stifado-it can be AMAZING. I use this recipe and it is scrumptious!
It is very good with the potatoes in the recipe, or we often have it with rice and veg. I agree though-it can be awful! I had one in Cyprus that was just so vinegarry-YUCK

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