What recipe do you regret making?

My teenager loves sushi. I cannot hand roll due to an injury, so i have used molds for ages.
I bought one of the "sushi bazookas" that made a splash on the web not that long ago for making rolls.
As a joke, the first time I used it i put in Slim Jim processed pork byproduct sodium enhanced "food sticks". To my dismay the kid loved them. In fact, my weekly budget for his sushi (that he makes) runs to my getting $15 of long slim jims, a package of trader joes smoked salmon for $16, those fake crab/lobster suranmi (sp?) for $1.99 for sale, 20 sheets of wrap for $3 and a couple of dollars of veggies. We buy rice in 50# bags (several varieties) so rice is not a cost.

Right now he is making rolls for his and a few friend's lunches in HS due to the new laws.when you weight lift at 6:am, go straight through with just a lunch until weight training and volleyball, and come home for dinner around 7, and sometimes have to go straight to scouts aftervthat, the minimal lunch does not make it. You need permission/approval of what you can bring on campus, and sushi rolls are "allowed"

But slim jim sushi rolls?

Oh - for those of us with no skill/injuries, the "sushi bazooka" for under $20 at amazon works very well.

Most of the recipes I regret making were ones that did not turn out and I wasted time and ingredients. Looks like you made something that is a great success with an unexpected ingredient.

I once made english xmas pudding and i went to great trouble to make it...it was very expensive. It collapsed when it came out of the mold and nobody liked it. basically my family does not like that kind of pudding.

truffled potato charlotte a la "BAM" - Emeril. To this day I cannot stand the smell or flavor of truffle oil. Never have I had such a strong reaction to an aroma or flavor.

Davooda

Back in the day, the restaurant I worked at turned out a very respectable leg of lamb stuffed with spinach and pesto. On a trip home to visit my mother I tried to recreate this dish. My fiance and I used every available cooking utensil in the kitchen and had to shut my mother out for several hours while we prepped and cleaned up. I later found my mothers description of the dish in her diary (post mortem): "really not very good". Nonetheless, she offered to bankroll the wedding.

Yeah on the truffle oil. I made a sweet potato dish with truffle oil. Not only was it ungodly but it stunk up the fridge.

Just a quick followup.
The kid is really into rice dishes right now, so I picked him up a cookbook especially for rice cookers. I was horrified that some recipes call for browning and stirring. Not in my Zoshi $300 cooker (long story, it was bought by my healthcare provider at the time due to it bringing out a level of eye vitamins from brown rice on a special setting that was cheaper than supplements at the time). I also found a $200 sanyo brand new at a church sale for $3 that I bought for him for college. Now I am going into the thrift stores tomorrow for a non teflon cheap cooker for him. At least he is learning with me watching.

Turducken back in my undergrad days. What I thought would take a few hours turned into a 15 hour ordeal. Never again!

monkfish. that slimy, snotty grey membrane you have to peel off of the flesh... *shudder* I am almost gagging thinking about it now.

it was years before I could even eat monkfish at a restaurant.

This just happened to me the other day and I regretted it dearly. A couple of weeks back my husband and I were watching an episode of Let's Dish where they had a guest chef. This guy was a chef at retirement community so he showed how to make a very simple acorn squash bisque. We love creamy soups so my husband was all for me making some. Got my acorn squash at Caputo's for a good price and made some this past Tuesday morning before I had to head out to work. It was such a hit that right after it was ready my husband had two bowls back to back. I wasn't hungry so I waited to eat mine until later that day. What I had didn't taste that great and an hour later my stomach was feeling funny. I got home and my husband noticed I hadn't even finished the soup. He then told me that when he went to eat his third bowl of the day, it too didn't taste right and his stomach started feeling funny. And since Tuesday if anyone says the word 'Squash" my stomach starts crying. Never again.

HI,

I make squash soup without any issue. Do you know what bothered you? Was it left on the counter without refrigeration?

Sorry about your travails, though I am curious on the source.

Regards,

A Bundt cake using Vernor's ginger ale as a key ingredient. I'm a fan of the stuff, and it sounded interesting and tasty. As it was the first time I'd used the recipe, I followed it absolutely to the letter - and it was a DISASTER. Thank God I had the prescient notion to put the cake pan on a half-sheet pan, as it wildly overflowed the pan, leaving a two-inch layer of dense mortar-like failed cake in the bottom of the cake pan, and a layer of gruesome burned cake overflow all over the half-sheet pan, requiring both overnight soaking and a palette knife to remove. What a mess. The recipe was from a vintage church ladies group-type self-published cookbook, so I couldn't even contact anyone to either ask for a corrected recipe, or warn others. Baking disasters are just the worst!

A vernor's bundt cake does sound awesome. Sorry that it didn't turn out.

Vernor's nearly caused me to kill my mother-in-law. She was coming to visit and vernor's was not available here at the time. She insisted she needed some. I had to take a day off of work to drive to an area that had some, and bought four 12 packs for her. When she arrived, she opened up her trunk so I could get her luggage and there was a dozen 12 packs of Vernor's. I asked her why. She replied that there was a sale that she saw, she bought them for herself and that I should have bought some for her as she was visiting. She knew that I had to take a day off of work because I made a point of saying that getting her vernor's was going to cost me a day's salary. My wife stepped in to stop me screaming and I moved out until that selfish witch went home. (We have a history. As my parents put it, "that woman is pure evil" asking me to call off the marriage in case my wife turned out like her.

Vernor's nearly caused me to kill my mother-in-law.

Talk about a grabber lede!

would you be kind enough to post the recipe that did not work?
I mentioned this to several people as I was calming down from the memory and there was lots of interest.
That and a few lawyer recommendations from my friends if my wife ever turns into her mother. (that is not going to happen)

Cathy2 wrote:HI,

I make squash soup without any issue. Do you know what bothered you? Was it left on the counter without refrigeration?

Sorry about your travails, though I am curious on the source.

Regards,

Thankfully, it was a minor irritation. It had been refrigerated so that was not the issue. However, upon discussing this with a friend of mine she says you have to cook squash quite thoroughly or else this can happen. I have never done squash before until I did that recipe so I wondered if that was the source of the problem.

exvaxman wrote:
Vernor's nearly caused me to kill my mother-in-law. She was coming to visit and vernor's was not available here at the time. She insisted she needed some. I had to take a day off of work to drive to an area that had some, and bought four 12 packs for her. When she arrived, she opened up her trunk so I could get her luggage and there was a dozen 12 packs of Vernor's. I asked her why. She replied that there was a sale that she saw, she bought them for herself and that I should have bought some for her as she was visiting. She knew that I had to take a day off of work because I made a point of saying that getting her vernor's was going to cost me a day's salary. My wife stepped in to stop me screaming and I moved out until that selfish witch went home. (We have a history. As my parents put it, "that woman is pure evil" asking me to call off the marriage in case my wife turned out like her.

Sounds like your MIL could have used the leftovers from my soup.

sundevilpeg wrote:The recipe was from a vintage church ladies group-type self-published cookbook, so I couldn't even contact anyone to either ask for a corrected recipe, or warn others.

I wonder who could have published such a recipe. Could it be...SATAN?

would you be kind enough to post the recipe that did not work?
I mentioned this to several people as I was calming down from the memory and there was lots of interest.

That and a few lawyer recommendations from my friends if my wife ever turns into her mother. (that is not going to happen)

Genuine LOL at this - I'll see if I can scare up the Cookbook of Evil this week, if I didn't burn it. Re the lawyers, I do work for the largest law firm in the world, but we don't really have much of what is now euphemistically called a "family law" practice. You're on your own with that!