Recipes NOT to be repeated!!

mum2kathryn

I made a yoghurt cake for my daughter's first birthday (recipe from an Annabel Karmel book). I filled it with strawberries and cream and it looked great. But when we came to eat it, it was greasy and solid. We ended up scraping the cream and strawberries off and just eating them.

Oh and many years ago I decided to make green marshmallows for a halloween party, I'd made marshmallows before and they were fine. These came out the colour and texture of carpet underlay!

Skint_Catt

MushyPeas wrote: »

Oh and last night I made a 'Vegetable Mediteranian Casserole' from the 'You Are What You Eat' book. At one point it told you to boil....but the recipe didn't include any form of liquid! Was rubbish so I added a tin of chopped toms and curry powder to turn it into a veggie curry

Don't let Dr M hear that ! :rotfl:

louidog

When we first got married I wanted to show off my cooking abilities so decided to cook him polenta....don't ask why that though!

Hubby said that if I ever cooked that for him again he would divorce me. I've never cooked it since and we have just celebrated our 20th anniversary!

p-pincher

OH bought me the new Tana Ransay book i think its called Real Family food, I had the first one and everything i tried was great espacially for kids. Anyway last night i tried lammington cakes, there little square sponge cakes covered in chocolate icing and coconut. i followed the recipe to the letter and the cake came out as flat as a pancake and id already made the icing, so today ive made a big batch of fairy cakes to use up the icing.

curlywurlygirly

Robothell wrote: »

I made Nigella's "ham in coke" and it was lovely......like she suggested I saved the stock to make her black bean soup. This on the other hand was vile.....there's so much coriander in it it's completely unpalatable and the coke/black beans give it an unappetising purple colour.

Never again.

I did exactly the same - Nigella fans take note!

honeypop

Sorry don't know what happened there...post deleted!!

Raspberry_Swirl

Peem wrote: »

(PS did anyone buy the bit where Nigella was on a bus? I don't think so.:D )

i'm pretty certain that the type of red bus she was on is not even in service anymore so it had to be staged!!!

russetred

I made black bean cakes with tomato sauce (Paul Rankin) looked like sundried horse poo and smelt awful,never go veggy! Oh and the other one is couscous no matter what you throw at it, herbs, lemon juice, stock, it always taste the same... of absolutely nothing and the texture of minced loft insulation.

p-pincher

I agree 100% with couscous. i must have tried it 10 times, with all different herbs,spices,etc but it never ever tastes nice. The feeling of it in your mouth is just plain weird. but I think I might have some kind of weird compulsion cos everytime i see a new recipe for it I have to try in the hope of finding one i actually like

sooz

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: at sooz

I can't stand that woman (Nigella that is, I'm sure you're lovely sooz ) With regards to her recipes I can't wondering if when cooking off screen she doesn't measure anything and just does it by eye, and then when it comes to writing the recipes down the proportions are wrong :huh:

I am lovely, and my bum is smaller than Nigella's as I don't lie in bed eating drunk-persons' food! Now I remember, it was croissant, bourbon & caramel bread and butter (and cream) pudding.

As for her 'measurements' she does sort of measure. You just need to buy her branded cup set of measures, I think these are £25 :eek:

Did anyone at the beeb actually watch her program before they broadcast it? Or is it not really meant to be a cookery program, just a self promotion film for Nigella for men to drool over? And women to laugh at..