Worst Recipe You Ever Made ? I Made It

recipediva 18 years ago said:

My worst was a clipping my mother had for some german cake.
LOL, she is right off the boat...and is totally german.
But she said we should try it
It was chocolate cake mixed with apple pie filling
It was god aweful!
We should start a group for worst recipes lol
The cake was just nasty, horrid, ugh ugh ugh!
Thanks for reminding me Kuk!

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linebb956 18 years ago said:

I like potato pepperone skillet! I'm going to go pout!
My worse was trying to cook.... bear.... you got it... My Uncle is a big time hunter and he pulls up one day with this HUGE steak... It looked like a round steak with the little bone and all. He tell me it is bear, and how to go about cooking it. Well ..I tried... oh my God.. it was awful... stunk... Even our dog who was part wolf would not eat it... Now that is really bad! As this dog would eat cow droppings!

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recipediva 18 years ago said:

I agree with the dog!

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coffeebean53 18 years ago said:

The worst one wasn't mine but my Mother's. She had just gotten a crockpot and used the recipe booklet that came with it to make Liver Creole. It turned out so bad that neither she nor my Dad would eat it. They tried feeding it to the dog, The dog wouldn't eat it. Then they tried feeding it to the cat. The cat tried to dig a hole in the linolium floor to bury it. It was at that point that it landed in a place worthy of it. The Trash can.

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recipediva 18 years ago said:

Love the point about the cat...I will have to tell my family about this one and the bear steak...good hearty chukle

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kukla 18 years ago said:

You guys are just......dangerous! Remind me to not show up for your next pot-luck, OK???? :) LOL

Linebb, I haven't been able to find that Pepperoni Potato Skillet thingy yet....I will try again tomorrow, and you guys will be the first to find out if I'm successful :)
Meanwhile, I couldn't BARE the BEAR LOL OLOLOL!!

Coffee, Liver cooked in a crockpot just defies logic !! ROFLMAO!

(DANGEROUS, I tell you !!)

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recipediva 18 years ago said:

but not like that
meow

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dragonflylady13 18 years ago said:

Now, to be honest, I don't think it was the fault of the recipe, but more my fault. From what I've been told, making it is more an art than anything, and apparently, I'm not a food artist. LOL. I ended up with this big glob of rock hard caramel looking stuff, that stuck so hard to my bowl, I had to throw the bowl out. I decided if I wanted Divinity from now on, I would either have my grandma send me some or just go to the store and buy it. I will never again try making it myself!!!

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recipediva 18 years ago said:

Funny! I have never made divinity. Hey globs could be good!!! lol
Globs have a creativeness mass all to them self...we could have painted it....or the very least turned it into rock art! lmao

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julesong 18 years ago said:

I like the idea of sharing the dreaded Recipes To Watch Out For. :)

The worst recipe I made wasn't one of mine, but was one at RecipeZaar that I agreed to try out for someone there. It was horrible. It was, lemme see...

Black Cherry Curry
http://www.recipezaar.com/106148

I'm a pretty adventurous eater (and as you can see from the photo on the page, we *did* make the recipe), but there was just no saving this one. It looks like the user has changed the ingredients a bit since I made it, because the list doesn't look quite as daunting, now.

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crystalwaters 18 years ago said:

My ex and I decided to make clams in black bean sauce, so we bought a pound of lovely fresh littleneck clams and the bean sauce. Took them home, steamed up the clams, and ... dumped in an entire jar of bean sauce! Never bothered to look at a recipe, just figured that was how it was done. Apparently not lol! They were disgusting, so salty, almost putrid so the whole lot went into the bin and we went out for dinner to a local Chinese restaurant instead to find out how it's really supposed to be done! :-)

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linebb956 18 years ago said:

Oh my God crystal... I'm so splitting my sides here.... Brahahahahahaha
I did that with my cheeseburger pie... My hubby worked at Goodyear making truck tires and when he came home at 11 at night he was starving... so it was a week-end and I thought... nice person as I am... I will make this... well after being outside in garden all day... by the time 10pm rolled around I was so sleepy... I read the recipe wrong... It called for 1/4 teaspoon Oregano... I put 1/4 cup.... Now talk about Gak!!! He so tried to eat it! Ended up having a good ole bowl of Campbells...
Linda

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trackwidow 18 years ago said:

This reminds me of something my father made when I was a kid. He was making a spicy chicken stir fry. He misread the amount of cayenne pepper called for. It called for a teaspoon of cayenne and he used a tablespoon. That stuff was pretty darned hot! It just shows the importance of reading the recipe and how everyone can make a mistake, even my Dad.

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peetabear 18 years ago said:

One of the worst ones I did was when I was in my teens. I decided it would be fun to have a taffy pull... just let me say that there was no amount of pulling that was going to make it firm up.. I ended up plopping it on wax paper on flat, soft globs.. at least what hadn't dripped on the floor.

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kukla 18 years ago said:

....thru reading this thread, and my sides are aching with laughter!!! You guys are just TOO MUCH!!!

I have been trying to find my Disaster Recipe (that Pepperoni-potato-skillet thingy...) but I think I threw the recipe out, just in case -- by some remote and unreasonable force -- I decided to try to re-make it (as if THAT could be possible :) )

My daughter beckons right now; I will be back to read the rest of all your disasters soon...

Keep on posting them!!!!!!!!!

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organicmama 18 years ago said:

Yep, that's right, I messed up Jello. When I first got married, I made some jello and it never set. I kept checking on it...for days. I guess I was thinking it was magically going to fix it's self. I couldn't figure out what happened, it had to be the jello, it couldn't be me, how could I mess up Jello. Until I thought to check my measuring cups. Yep, the 3/4 cup actually held a full cup of water. This taught me a very valuable lesson...Jello does not set with too much water...duh. So I bought a set of tupperwear measuring cups and have never used any others since.

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thepiggs 18 years ago said:

From Recipetips.com

Potato Pizza with Pepperoni and Cheese Recipe

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Servings: 4
Serving Size: 1 slice
Made from shredded potatoes, this potato cake pizza recipe is a non-traditional way to create a unique but delicious pizza from hashbrown potatoes.

Ingredients
-1 large egg
-1/2 cup pepperoni - 2 inch slices, chopped and divided - more if desired
-1 cup cheese - Swiss or parmesan, divided - more if desired
-1 tablespoon green onion, minced
-1 teaspoon herb, parsley or rosemary or herb of choice
-1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
-1/2 teaspoon salt
-4 cups frozen hash brown potatoes
-2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

Directions
Chop pepperoni slices into coarsely cut pieces of a desired size.
Crack egg into mixing bowl and beat until smooth.
Add 1/2 cup of cheese, 1/4 cup of pepperoni, green onions, herbs of choice (parsley, rosemary or similar), ground pepper and salt. Add frozen potatoes and mix all ingredients together.
On stovetop, add 1 tablespoon of oil to a 10 inch non-stick skillet, warming oil on medium heat setting.
Add frozen potato mixture to a non-stick skillet, using a spatula to level the potatoes evenly across the pan. Since the potato mixture does not firm up after cooking only one side, the non-stick skillet will assist with the ease of turning the pizza over when the first side is finished cooking. Cover pan and cook for 6 to 8 minutes or until golden brown on bottom surface of potatoes. Remove cover and cook for an additional 5 to 6 minutes.
Remove skillet from stovetop. Using protective mitts or hotpads, place a flat baking sheet over the skillet. Hold baking sheet against skillet and turn skillet over so pizza drops out of skillet onto baking sheet.
Remove bits of potato from skillet and place it back onto burner, adding remaining 1 tablespoon of oil.
Slide potato pizza off baking sheet and into skillet, allowing uncooked surface to begin cooking.
Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup of cheese over top of potato pizza. Disperse remaining 1/4 cup of pepperoni over cheese.
Cook second side in uncovered skillet for 5 to 6 minutes, until golden brown. When finished cooking, tilt skillet and allow potato pizza to slide out of skillet onto serving plate. Cut into 4 pie-shaped pieces and serve warm.

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thepiggs 18 years ago said:

I made a holiday jello salad last week and forgot to put the Jello IN it!
I did a quick add with the Jello but it wouldn't set up. I thought maybe I needed more Jello so I put another two boxes in. Nope...wouldn't set.
I finally decided the gelatin wasn't mixing with the other ingredients properly and strained out the solids and reheated the liquid mixture and popped everything back in.
I THOUGHT I had stirred the jello enough but it hadn't mixed well and clumped onto other solds, not mixing with the liquid...fortunately I noticed the red flecks stuck on the bowl sides and on the apples and could fix it.
Trust me, it's not fun straining fruit out of jello....but it worked!
I love my cranberry, apple, pineapple and nut jello salad so it was worth it.
It's my favorite jello salad of all times.

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kukla 18 years ago said:

Hi, Piggs...

No, not the same recipe (your actually sounds good :)

I made this one over 26 years ago. It came from a Woman's magazine of some description, and I will do my best to try to remember it...

Meanwhile, I did not realize (at the tender age I was then) that I had to "season" an iron skillet before I used it. Since the recipe called for a "heavy skillet", I ran out (with my rolled pennies at the time, if I recall...) and bought an iron skillet that day.....Step one of my Disaster Dinner...

Anyway, I DID know that my (first) husband was some-what of a "meat-and-potato with TONS of bread and butter, with pickles on the side on a good day, kind of guy. BUT he did like pizza, and I was anything but a meat-and-potato eater....

OK. Here goes:

Slice some potaotes (peel on) as thinly as you can >>>>>I did not own a mandolin, nor a sharp knife at the time :)
Heat a heavy skillet over med-high heat, add some butter, then layer the potato slices in semi-circles until the entire bottom & sides of the pan are covered.
Cover the potato slices with pizza sauce, sprinkle with dried oregano, and some grated mozzarella cheese....
Top that with pepperoni slices, also in a fanned-out circular pattern, then with some more grated mozzarella cheese.
Top that with some thin-sliced tomatoes, then more mozzarella cheese.
Continue to cook over the heat until the cheese on top bubbles, and the bottom potatoes are slightly browned....

Well, I missed the slightly browned part! Went straight from "cooking" to "burnt to the bottom of the pan for the rest of time" ...... Bubbly on the top??? NOT IN THIS LIFE TIME!!! I would have had half the fire department for dinner had I left it much longer !!

Really Sad. I couldn't pry the potatoes off the pan -- even if I wanted to! They smelled like burnt...iron??? Not much you can do to ruin pepperoni, so it kinda survived. Can't say that for the tomaotes....
Bubbly cheese?? More like heavy, gooey, melted.....crap! I ended up throwing out the New Iron Skillet.....was a few years until I learned what "seasoning the iron skillet" meant :) LOL !!!

Bravely, my first husband ate what we could salvage from the pan, albeit with opened windows (it was December....IN CANADA....) Guess when he came home from a day's work he was hungrier than most.....LOL.....

No wonder he divorced me ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

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thepiggs 18 years ago said:

Hmmmmm Newlywed disaster story. That is just way pitiful. AND you threw out a perfectly good iron skillet that wouldn't have been that hard to clean.
Here's how, just in case you still don't know...
Just give it very high heat and it will clean itself and all that will be left is some ashes.
Hubby took his mother's ancient deep cast iron skillet/pot, which was covered on the outside with at least a 1/2" of cooked on black gunk...from never cleaning it, and threw it into a camp fire on one of his week long camping trips. It came back clean, except for soot, which was easily cleaned off.
There is nothing that I know of that will ruin a cast iron skillet, as long as you cook food in it.
Now, the skillet that hubby stole from my kitchen and used to melt lead in is banned from the house now......idiot!

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recipediva 18 years ago said:

It is late here. I jumped on and I am so happy I did. YOU all crack me up...
Hey I am the diva.....
Worst thing for me was....HAM BALLS.
living in Lancaster, PA...Ductch country.
The recipe sounded good.
IT took alot of time.
I even ground my own ham!
Then you had to make a raisin sauce.
Well the ham balls were balls. Taste was just horrible.
IT was so bad my ex and kids thought it was so funny.
they took it out and played ball with them!
I get so upset when things dont turn out...lol
They had me laughing so hard.
So joke when is ham balls?
No animals including our dog never touched it.

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linebb956 18 years ago said:

OMG... the potato thing... is it the one I posted from McCalls? I liked it... That would be way toooooooooooo FUNNY. It goes to show you though... how peoples tastes are so diffrent! My God... that would be funny! Hummmmm I do have a sick since of humor ... right?

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kukla 18 years ago said:

Linebb, you got me rolling on the floor again this AM!! TOO FUNNY!!

No, not quite the same recipe, but awfully close! In mine, you used fresh potatoes and peeled them (paper thin). I dare say (hope the critical policing type aren't looking...) that the one you posted was the same thing, updated to include Betty Crocker potatoes in a package; cause other than that, the recipe is almost identical :) LOL!!

There; that just goes to show those critical types, once again -- there are VERY FEW new & originally recipes. Most are updates and re-writes of what used to be, was once, and is back in a new format again :) :)

Too funny!!!

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kukla 18 years ago said:

Hey, Piggs!!

I wish you'd been around back in 1979 -- BEFORE i threw out a perfectly good cast iron frying pan!! I'll never forget the humiliation of taking the rolled pennies into the store to buy the darned thing in the first place!! LOL!! Add to that the humiliation of the meal....

Well, it's a wonder I ever cooked again :) LOL!!

Ham balls ????? ROFLMAO!!!

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kukla 18 years ago said:

Ham balls?? With raisin sauce???

Funny thing, Diva, is that they almost SOUND like they could have been....well, interesting??? (Can't really call them good, huh?)

Maybe we should all come up with recipes for Ham Balls, just for Diva :) LOL

I know where to come when I need a good laugh....

Priceless.

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dragonflylady13 18 years ago said:

That recipe actually sounds really good. Too bad it didn't turn out! I have a turbo cooker. I wonder if it would work in that?

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kukla 18 years ago said:

I'm sure it IS very good; Linebb posts an updated one in her recipes, and Piggs has one higher in this thread...
Unfortunately, I will never give it another chance...I know, Party-Pooper me, and all :) LOL

BUT...if you DO try it sometime, please let us know how it turned out -- AND get a pic, if at all possible, so I can see what it was SUPPOSED to look like....!!
(The original came from early-1970's magazine, but I didn't attempt cooking it until 1979.....And Now You Know The Rest of the Story....) LOL!!

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kukla 18 years ago said:

JELLO???

For REAL???

ROTFLMAO !!!!

That is just TOO funny!! You poor thing...I can just see you periodically peering into the fridge to see if it was set yet or not.....

I STILL use my set of 1980 Tupperware measuring cups!! I love them, indispensible!!
LOL..Yer too much, girl!!!!!!

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recipediva 18 years ago said:

I love amish recipes and this one was ham balls, yuck..cant believe I tried it. I was just getting so tired of the same ole beef, pork, chicken...just horrible....

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thepiggs 18 years ago said:

Yep, forgot to put the Jello in! How pitiful is that? LOL
I added my hot water to the cranberry sauce and stirred it into a consistentcy of Jello and then added the pineapple juice and stirred more. It did appear to be just like the jello so I didn't think anything of it. I added the fruit and nuts and set it in the fride. THEN I discovered the unopened box of Jello right next to the work area. DUH!
I added more hot water to the jello but it just didn't dissolve as it should, so when I added it into the mixture, it clumped onto the bowl side and also the fruit.
Added more Jello, which did the same thing. grrrrr
When I reboiled the stuff, it finally thickened.
Sometimes it really takes brains! LOL

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linebb956 18 years ago said:

Oh My God... I am going to have to give my Mother-In-Law more credit... She always brings Jello as her passing dish to BBQ's or what ever... If were lucky... she puts fruit in it! This is funny...
Kind of like going to confession.. telling all our mistakes! Good for the soul!!!!

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pointsevenout 18 years ago said:

I don’t make mistakes! Not even when I posted some less than perfect pictures of a loaf of bread on one of Chefjeb’s recipes to get some instruction.:) Not even when making fudge when it instantly turns into a hard powdery cake.:) Not even when I fall asleep while boiling smoked sausage in a Dutch oven and wake up to a house full of solid white smoke so dense I can’t see my hand in front of my face.:) Not even when I open the doors to let the smoke out so I can find the kitchen to turn off the stove and remove the cremated sausages in the Dutch oven from the stove top and the neighbors call the fire department because they see a large white header cloud billowing out from my house.:) Not even when I’m considering giving you’uns the recipe for my “doubly smoked cremated” sausage.:) Not even when I flesh out my soul to you’uns so you can take it up with your teeth, shake it, and run around the house worrying it like a dog with an old shoe as a new plaything.:)
Did I put enough smiley faces in here so someone would not get their back up?:)

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thepiggs 18 years ago said:

Every time I sear a roast before simmering, I need to remember to turn off the smoke alarms. I almost remembered the other day, when I turned to Hubby and was about to say, "go turn the smoke alarm off," when it went off. Don't have a vent so the smoke goes into the room.

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thepiggs 18 years ago said:

When I was single, I had a nice little kitchen and two cats, who, unbeknownst to me, played in the kitchen during the night. One early morning, I was awakened to the smell and haze of white smoke. I went into the kitchen and found that one of them had jumped up on the electric stove and pushed one of the buttons on the back and turned on a burner, just on a lowsetting, but enough to set the calamity in motion.
I had a cast iron skillet on the back burner with and inch or so of grease in it, which had been reduced to sludge, very thick sludge, and the skillet center had gotten so hot that the center had sunk down. It did kind of mess that skillet up but it could still be used. The cats were reprimanded and windows opened and a fan set in to suck out the smoke. No harm done, except for my skillet.
Don't let cats cook! They forget to turn the burners off.

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thepiggs 18 years ago said:

I read something in groups quite some time back about someone leaving eggs to explode on the stove.
Been there, seen it, done it, many times!
One of my favorite pass times was to put on a pan of eggs to boil, back before I learned the secret of turning them off after they come to a boil, sit down and fall asleep, only to be awakened by exploding eggs. If you haven't experience this, the smell alone should be enough to deter a person, but no, I've done it several times!
Exploded eggs are not fun to clean off the ceiling, trust me!

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crystalwaters 18 years ago said:

... you got me grinnin' from ear to ear! Thanks for the great giggles on a rainy Sunday morning ... I'll try to come up with something to return the favour! LOL!! :-D

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linebb956 18 years ago said:

My Goodness.... HUMOR! And yes U put in enough smiley faces!
I love it... Now I have to ask................................................... Did it hurt? LOL!

Don't forget the LOL's!

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zena824 18 years ago said:

My worst recipe.... A girlfriend and I decided to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving.... neither one of us knew how to cook...we were living in Wash DC... in my apartment.... we bought this turkey.... didnt wash it.... didnt clean it out.... when we ate it.... we found all kinds of interesting things in the middle of it..... talk about gross...... but we thought we had done something because we cooked the turkey and it tasted good.......

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pointsevenout 18 years ago said:

I'm in traction. I like my humor very dry, shaken not stirred. You should wake up well rested then start to laugh. Suppose it's part of my ongoing lesions in social graces.

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crystalwaters 18 years ago said:

Lesions ... or lessons? ROTFLMAO!! :-D

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notyourmomma 18 years ago said:

My stepmom as a newbie cook was making her first Thanksgiving bird and the instructions read to cover it with butter soaked cheese cloth. Well, this intelligent smart lady took a pair of her husband at the time unused, brand new boxers, drenched them in butter and baked the turkey in hubby's shorts. Her telling us the story years later had me in stitches for days. I can just see the turkey legs sticking out of the leg holes and I still crack up.

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notyourmomma 18 years ago said:

My worst recipe was the boogers on a stick (melted cheese whiz colored green and I coated the end of the big pretzel sticks-Halloween party fare) NOT only did the kids not eat one, my Jack Russell Terrier refused to eat them too. He walked away with such disgust, it was pitiful. But they were so gross looking. UGGH.

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coffeebean53 18 years ago said:

My Grandkids must be real sicko's cuz I made Boogers on a Stick last Halloween and they not only ate them they want them again this year, but want me to have it ooze out the nose and mouth of a pumpkin.

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dragonflylady13 18 years ago said:

And it wasn't too bad. I used the turbo cooker, instead of a cast iron skillet. (my turbo cooker has several recipes where just layer stuff and cook it right in the pan, so I figured it would work great in there) It turned out pretty good. I made sure to cook it slow so that I wouldn't burn it. The family loved it, except for my husband. He said it was good except the sauce I used. (not the sauce I normally use, but I picked some up today when I was in a hurry) But he said it would be great with the sauce I normally use. I didn't get a chance to take a picture for you, but I will make it again sometime.
I think you should post the recipe. Even if you didn't like it, I think some other people might!!

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dragonflylady13 18 years ago said:

I got to thinking, after I made it. Wouldn't it be easier to put it in a casserole dish and bake it? That way you wouldn't have to work about the potatoes burning to the bottom of the pan. Just a thought! I think I will try it that way once and let you know how it turns out.

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linebb956 18 years ago said:

OMG.. I just read back on here.. we could sell this as comedy to some of these stand ups! This place is so good for us!

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kukla 18 years ago said:

Dragonflylady, YOU deserve to post it!! After all, you had success with it (not me!)...and..make sure you let us know which tomato sauce is best :)
I really hope you are able to make it again, and submit a picture, if possible! And, if you can't quite come up with exact measurements, add it too the "Guiseppe" group....
Thank you for trying it out :) and I'm very happy your family enjoyed it!!

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kukla 18 years ago said:

Notyourmomma, THAT in itself is a recipe worth posting!! I love it!!
And, I bet the boxer-shorts-soaked-in-butter did an amazing job :)
Talk about a unique presentation! Thanksgiving supper with a ....??????
LOVE IT!!

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kukla 18 years ago said:

....Lessions would be more suited to your dry humour & sarcasm, which I have become accustomed to....
But, for the masses, there could not be enough smiley faces :) :) and, add a few ROFLMAO's to the mix.....
Are you ready for a Group Hug yet ??? :)

BTW, I'm married to a Scot,....from Glasgow; sarcasm is a way of life for me :)

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dragonflylady13 18 years ago said:

OMG, I missed the turkey one. That is sooooo funny!

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dragonflylady13 18 years ago said:

I will wait until I try it in the oven and see if I like it better. If I post it, I will give you credit, though, because it was your recipe! I will definitely take pictures next time. (my kids just dug into it too fast the first time!)

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dragonflylady13 18 years ago said:

I do remember another one I made that I didn't like. I got it from one of my diet magazines. It sounded so good so I decided to make it one night. Oh, it was so bad. My kids wouldn't eat it. My husband, who will usually choke down anything I put in front of him, good bad or otherwise, wouldn't eat it, and I definitely didn't like it. I have never made it again. I probably still have the recipe though. LOL.

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notyourmomma 18 years ago said:

My mom and I made a couple of dozen deviled eggs for a picnic and added the sprinkle of paprika as usual. And as we were carrying them to the picnic table we noticed that the paprika was MOVING, a steady march across the top of the eggs.
We debated half a minute about scraping off the top and serving but then we thought better of it and tossed them in the trash. Bugs in Florida? nah! LOL

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kukla 18 years ago said:

NYMama, I am open to a lot of things. I would like to think that my culinary experiences will always be acute and ready to try something new and exciting...

BUT MOVING THINGS are where I ....sad to say .... have to draw the line :)

REDDISH-BROWN moving things no bigger than a pin-prick fall into the above category!

ROFLMAOAOAO...and again :) :) :) :)

Too much!

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kukla 18 years ago said:

DragonFly (BTW, that is one of my fav insects :) if you have been able to take a sec and dry your tears of laughter, we are all waiting -- with bated breath -- to find out what happened to your Burgundy Beef.....

You have to let us know, in vivid details none-the-less, what happened.....

And, I would be honoured if you get a chance to post a Potato-Pepperoni thingy whatcha-ma-call-it.....

:)

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linebb956 18 years ago said:

Oh yes... that has happened here in Texas... I have to keep the spices I don't use often in the freezer.... Mine was in the Spikes seasoning... they flew away ! eweeeeeeee

Living in the tropics..

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recipediva 18 years ago said:

UGH...

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sparow64 18 years ago said:

OH> These are priceless!! Laughing so hard I am crying! Wish I had started exploring the group chatter before today : )

I think my biggest fiasco was a newlywed thing too. One Sunday morning, making biscuits and gravy, eggs, sausage, etc. Anyway, used the last of the milk in the biscuit dough...he wanted gravy, so, I started trying to think what to do becasue there was not a store close enough to run and get some milk. Then I remembered, I could use evaporated milk and some water! Problem solved! Feeling very proud of myself, I dished up this wonderful breakfast, (we had company, too!), with the beautiful brown biscuit gravy! Everyone talked about how great it all looked...then one by one we began to actually TASTE the gravy...and make these horrible, hideous faces....it was AWFUL. Not understanding what went wrong, I looked in the garbage to see if the evaporated milk could possibly have been expired...and then I saw it. I had not use Evaporated Milk at all...I had used SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK!! (Not so good with the bits of sausge, black pepper, etc!)!!! The funniest part is that we had another couple over, and HE ate it...to be nice!! The rest of us threw ours away! LOL

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notyourmomma 18 years ago said:

Honey, that must have been just awful. I can't imagine the fortitude of your male guest to eat that gravy. Kudos for the funny story! LOL Don't we all make those early cooking mistakes?

Although I still make mistakes after nearly 40 years of cooking. Pea soup as a salad dressing, still haven't gotten past that boo boo.

Anyone else use the salt instead of sugar or vice versa mistake? Do tell?

I think another is the unsweetened chocolate nibble as a child-surely my mom didn't leave that lovely piece of chocolate on the counter and expect me not to try it?

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sparow64 18 years ago said:

LOL...my mom pulled the same trick on me! Only, instead of leaving it on the counter, she let me stick my finger on it and lick it when she had pulled it out of the over, and it was all melty and gooey looking!! I should have KNOWN that she wouldn't have let me do that if it had been GOOD!! LOL

Never substituted the salt for the sugar...but: I DID leave the shortening out of a white cake one time. Rose beautifully, gorgeous cake. Wouldn't come out of the pan!! LOL...had the pan turned upside down for HOURS...LOL...it just wouldn't budge...

Then, there was the time that I tried to make my first rum cake, and instead of using a rum cake recipe (the only one I had called for a mix), I just substituted rum for milk, cake and icing! LOL..one piece would get you snokcered!! LOL...that cake was so well preserved...it never DID dry out...I think we ate rum cake for a couple of weeks...LOL...

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recipediva 17 years ago said:

I have been away for a bit...catching up on these post...laughing so hard my tummy is going to pop! Love this site

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dragonflylady13 17 years ago said:

The Beef Burgundy, it just tasted bad. It was a horrible recipe. I don't think I've ever switched sugar for salt or vice versa before, but I know I have misread recipes several times. I think the worst one was when I added 2 tbsp. of ground cloves instead of 2 tsp. It was still good and everyone ate it, but it was strong! LOL.
The funniest thing I remember was when I was helping my sister cook supper at her house one time. We were making mashed potatoes, and she decided to add some black pepper to the potatoes, while we were mixing them up. Well, the lid fell off the pepper, and she ended up dumping the whole bottle in. Of course we just looked at each othe like "now what?" We had 4 kids under the age of 3 that we were feeding. So I told her to tip the pan over another bowl. The pepper would dump out and the potatoes would stay, and what was left shouldn't be too much pepper. Well, I was wrong about that. Those potatoes were hot! LOL. Luckily, I had convinced her to scoop some of the mashed potatoes from the bottome of the pan that didn't have pepper on them for the kids!

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notyourmomma 17 years ago said:

Yep, been there and done that. But it was because I am used to having shakers on the tops of the spices and I didn't look before I started shaking and dumped a whole jar of oregano into the marinara sauce. It was unsalavagable, short of buying 8 or more 28 ounce cans of tomatoes and having a pot big enough to simmer it in.....ugh. It was horrible. I always check to make sure there is a shaker top after that one.

Bless your heart. Those HOT potatoes are priceless.

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kukla 17 years ago said:

Been there. Done that. Got the T-shirt :)

Needed to add a bit (tablespoon or so) of sugar to the spaghetti sauce to help take the acidic "edge" off....in a hurry, didn't check the cannister in the cupboard,.....you got it. Over 1 TBSP of salt in the sauce... BTW, boiling a potato in the sauce to "absorb" some of the salt does NOT work; it only "covers it up" a bit...you still have all the salt in there....

Anyway, decided to put the sauce into a lasagna recipe, cook the pasta without adding any salt, of course.....millions of cheeses, and some chopped hard-boiled eggs -- but you could STILL taste that salt!! Ended up ditching the lasagna :(

Got a good one for ya, from my [ironically enough, Italian] Godfather......this is not culinary, but I'd rather make a salt / sugar error then do this one: Louie (I know; but it IS his name...) got up one morning, half asleep, trying to get ready for work. He had recently spent a month back home in Italy, and had a bit of jet-lag still (or at least that's his story, and he's sticking to it...) OK. Not only did he brush his teeth with Brylcream, but he sprayed his wife's hair spray under his arms (in lieu of deoderant) and put a bit of deoderant in his hair to get the stray bits to stop sticking up.....Hair under his arms was so "stiff" that he got a rash, and the women that he worked with wanted to know the brand of "shampoo" he used cause it "smelled SOOOO good".....

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linebb956 17 years ago said:

That hair spray under the arms.. My God.. that had to hurt! BUT... I can't stop laughing!

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recipediva 17 years ago said:

Going to do the turkey in my roaster oven....so I can use the oven. Nervous about it. I hope it browns. It might get posted as a disaster story here. I am hoping not.
oh just dawned on me.....one of my mistakes...lmao

My mom makes this great carrot cake. Everyone wants it. lol. so she goes to the foot doctor often. They asked her to bring it. She asked me earlier where the powdered sugar was to sprinkle on the cake before she takes it. I told her it was in a bag since It was in mass amounts I bought. She used it. Tookt he cake. Goes to her next visit. No one says a word...she is like that is odd. They always ask for it.....so she asked one of the nurses how was the cake. she said oh good. Then hesitated...said I guess I should tell you....YOu sprinkled baking soda all over the top of it! I was hysterical as she was telling me. We could not help but laugh. It must have been horrid with all that baking soda on it. Well...we could call it indegestion cake....maybe I will post it lmao.
Hugs, Teri

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crystalwaters 17 years ago said:

... thanks for sharing the giggle! :-D

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divaliscious 17 years ago said:

First of all, I simply cannot stop laughing....I thought I was the only one with cats who like to cook at times, and to line66956 and coffeebean53 - OMG ROFL LMAO! WHat a great idea... ok time for some - just some of my confessions - first one pretty good - was a teenage getting ready for a date -heard egg was good for the hair - so I brought an egg into the shower with me - crakced it on my head... to no avail have scrambled egg in m hair. 1) Directions never said to use cold water 2) the smell is similar to previous person's posting of eggs poppings while trying to boil them instead 3) It takes severl washes and yes several days to remove smell....needless to say, my head was literally out of the window to and from the movies while my date couldn't stop laughing at me....the freak that I am really showed that day.... I know stick to VO5 treatments....

ok confession #2 - also a Newlywed disaster - made the perfect chicken soup I was completely proud of - and have never made as good of chicken soup yet from a left over roasted chicken... new hubby wanted the Italian "pasta stars" inside the soup like his mom made when he was a baby/kid...I goofed and put half package in... though I didn't have enough - so I added the rest - needless to say - I could stand a heavy spoon sticking straight up within five minutes after the so called little stars turned into planets in my soup - off it went into the garbage the solid mush it became....
I am now divorced many years..... I am sure it was the soup that did me in! lol

more confessions later.... as the new man is upstairs in my kitchen - which should be disaster #3 - making three types of eggplant salad.

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