Worst dish you ever prepared!

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:17 am

since we have all these threads going around with our best dishes. I thought, let's air the dirty laundry too. What's the worst dish you ever prepared?

I'll even go first. When I was pregnant with my son, I had a MAJOR craving for pasta. Thankfully this was after my craving for fish sticks, or this dish could of even been worse.

But the dish I made was both macaroni and rigatoni pasta that I boiled. Then mixed with browned ground beef and jar pasta sauce in a casserole dish. I then smothered it with cheddar, mozzarella, and a whole bottle of that fake parmeson cheese. I then put a layer of pepperoni on top. It was a greasy nasty mess. Hubby loved it, but he has an iron gut.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:20 am

At our deer cabin, I am the cook. Well one night after having a few beers I decided to make chilli. Did all the fixins. Well we got our bowls when it was done and it tasted just like a wierd bean burritto. It was nasty. I went to the kitchen and looked at the chillii seasoning and miracuously it said BURRITO seasoning.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:22 am

Well you should of just broke out a bag of tortillas and had burritos :wah:

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:27 am

Sheryl;717939 wrote: Well you should of just broke out a bag of tortillas and had burritos :wah:
:wah:We did. Still nasty but by then I was too drunk to cook anything else.

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:37 am

Sheryl, your pasta dish sounds good! :wah: Seriously, I'd try it!

I've had a few misses with my cooking but I can't remember what they were specifically. One was a type of casserole that featured ground beef and three different flavors of soup. Kind of gross. I think my last miss was some slumgullion I made that just tasted plain weird.

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:38 am

i burn water

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:50 am

YZGI;717934 wrote: At our deer cabin, I am the cook. Well one night after having a few beers I decided to make chilli. Did all the fixins. Well we got our bowls when it was done and it tasted just like a wierd bean burritto. It was nasty. I went to the kitchen and looked at the chillii seasoning and miracuously it said BURRITO seasoning.

:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

I've done stuff like that...and ummmmm....no beer was involved to blame it on!

As for Sheryl's dish....I have made that before too..and I thought it was okay, but not something I could eat on a reg. basis....

I am sure I have many, just have blocked them from my memory!!:wah:

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:14 pm

Invited the family down for Thanksgiving dinner and overcooked the turkey. Had to throw it out and took the family to Klees for pizza & beer. We had a good time with all the other turkeys there:wah:

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:26 pm

Then worst thing I did was a 3 course meal for my ex (probably my cooking attributed to that!) and his parents, I was 18 and we'd just brought our first house, I did Prawn Cocktail for starters but I didn't know you had to defrost the prawns, next was chicken with rock hard veggies, the pudding was nice but no one dared try it

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:30 pm

SuzyB;717982 wrote: Then worst thing I did was a 3 course meal for my ex (probably my cooking attributed to that!) and his parents, I was 18 and we'd just brought our first house, I did Prawn Cocktail for starters but I didn't know you had to defrost the prawns, next was chicken with rock hard veggies, the pudding was nice but no one dared try it

suz hun its not got any better

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 3:38 pm

when i was young.i tried fried chicken..it looked perfect..all golden and crispy..except when i bit into it it was still raw..i didnt thaw it out first..

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 3:39 pm

guppy;718071 wrote: when i was young.i tried fried chicken..it looked perfect..all golden and crispy..except when i bit into it it was still raw..i didnt thaw it out first..

ewww thats nasty

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:05 pm

el guapo;718072 wrote: ewww thats nasty

lol...it wasnt too good to me either..

moonpie · Post by **moonpie** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:18 pm

Wen I first got my crock-pot, I decided to try and make some pea soup while I was at work all day. I added the peas (not soaked the previous night), water, seasonings and ham and put it on when I left for work at 7:00 a.m., when I got home at 5:30 - it was a green cake with flecks of pink in it - had to throw the whole thing out. Yuk.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:39 pm

ewww..moonpie..pea soup bleh! lol

Oh and guppy I did that once with fried chicken. I was so happy and proud that my chicken had the perfect crust. But hubby took one bite and it was still bleeding.

Have never attempted to make it since.

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:17 pm

I made a fish pie that could have killed a buffalo with one bite. It stunk the house up for 3 days. You have to realize I come from a land locked beef and sheep state. I made this awful dish 24 years ago and I still cannot get it out of my mind.

moonpie · Post by **moonpie** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:01 pm

That's funny.

watermark · Post by **watermark** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:08 pm

guppy;718071 wrote: when i was young.i tried fried chicken..it looked perfect..all golden and crispy..except when i bit into it it was still raw..i didnt thaw it out first..

:wah::wah: Sounds perfectly awful!!

watermark · Post by **watermark** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:12 pm

I prepared lots of worst dishes. Maybe call them worse of the worser? I'll tell you one I made, not a dish, but a dessert I made with the only ingredients available in my soon to be husbands house. Peanuts and flour and sugar. And a little Wesson oil and of course some salt. I made him a peanut cake. I wasn't sure what I was trying to make, just knew I wanted to be in the kitchen cooking something for him. Why? I have no idea. Will leave that to another thread or psychodanalysis.

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mikeinie · Post by **mikeinie** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 12:05 pm

When I was 16 or 17 I decided to bake my dad a birthday cake. When he arrived home for work and was walking up the path-way he saw me with a hammer and chisel on our front porch hammering away.

He approached me and asked what I was doing, and I told him I was trying to get his birthday cake out of the pan

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 12:44 pm

:wah:

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:38 pm

My mother made the best homemade gravy on earth. Mine, you do NOT want to try.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:03 pm

I cook a lot, love to experiement with new recipes, and mostly, one way or another, things turn out fine. But I remember two absolute failures. Once I made meatloaf and the ground beef had bone in it.. The other time I tried to cook New Zealand white bait and they all ended up a mess of mush and scales. A few other dishes which underwhelmed the audience were my first ever chili con carne where I read tablespoon of chili powder, for teaspoon and blew my man's brains out (the heat was fine by me). And I once made a dish with pears, walnuts and blue vein cheese which should have been good, but somehow just didn't do it for those upon whom I inflicted it.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:19 am

Back when my wife and I were first setting up home together - absolutely penniless and suffering the effect of it, I used to share the cooking duties.

On the day in question all we had in the flat was a chicken carcass (first day roast chicken and vedge, second day cold chicken and potatoes third day stew) and some rice so I decided to knock up a curry.

I was quite proud of my curry, always done with my own collection of seeds, spices and herbs, and after an hour or so, voila, the most beautiful curry was set on the table.

Alas, whilst it smelt wonderful it was totally inedible. I must have lost concentration and doubled up on the hot bits 'cos no amount of padding out would cool it down enough to eat.

That night we went hungry and I wasn't allowed into the kitchen for years afterwards.

Still haven't lived it down.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:53 am

Peg;718440 wrote: My mother made the best homemade gravy on earth. Mine, you do NOT want to try.

The first time I attempted to make gravy, it was so thick you had to cut it with a knife when pouring it out of the bowl. I've never lived it down either. Hubby likes to tell everyone bout my gravy.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:11 pm

Bryn Mawr;718614 wrote: Back when my wife and I were first setting up home together - absolutely penniless and suffering the effect of it, I used to share the cooking duties.

On the day in question all we had in the flat was a chicken carcass (first day roast chicken and vedge, second day cold chicken and potatoes third day stew) and some rice so I decided to knock up a curry.

I was quite proud of my curry, always done with my own collection of seeds, spices and herbs, and after an hour or so, voila, the most beautiful curry was set on the table.

Alas, whilst it smelt wonderful it was totally inedible. I must have lost concentration and doubled up on the hot bits 'cos no amount of padding out would cool it down enough to eat.

That night we went hungry and I wasn't allowed into the kitchen for years afterwards.

Still haven't lived it down.

I've now learned, Bryn, that a few kilos of potatoes can cure over heating and over salting. Wish I'd known that when I cooked the killer chili. That would probably have fixed your curry too.

lalalala · Post by **lalalala** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:53 pm

Sheryl;718642 wrote: The first time I attempted to make gravy, it was so thick you had to cut it with a knife when pouring it out of the bowl. I've never lived it down either. Hubby likes to tell everyone bout my gravy.

i would be in the same boat as you thats why i never tried lol

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:21 pm

I've gotten better with practice. :wah:

Tater Tazz · Post by **Tater Tazz** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:35 am

The worse dish I ever cooked was a meatloaf shaped like a chicken. It was really bad.