Post by rikkiandjulie on Feb 27, 2013 14:25:52 GMT -5
1. The first time I made shrimp fajitas. I cooked the shrimp sooooo long, they were tiny, and hard. I didn't realize that if they were pink they were already cooked.
Post by joymseattle on Feb 27, 2013 14:31:10 GMT -5
1) Worst meal I ever made was a baked salmon. I have no idea what went wrong, but I'm going to blame the fish quality. It was inedible.
2) Worst meal I ever ate was probably one time when my aunt made spaghetti that was a complete mush ball, or the time the same aunt made a boiled chicken, or any of the times my step-mom made over-cooked scrambled eggs (every time!), burnt grilled cheese, or gross tuna salad sandwiches.
1) For one of our early Valentine's Days together, I tried to make meatloaf for Jen (it's one of her favorites). I thought it would be fun to make it in a heart-shaped cake pan I own. Unfortunately, it was a springform pan - one of those cake pans with removable sides, so sometimes cake batter will leak out around the bottom if you don't wrap it in foil. I didn't know about the foil. Well, if cake batter can leak out, you can imagine what happens to meat juice, and basically a bunch of fatty juice leaked all over the oven and made things smoky, and after baking for 2.5 hours the middle was still raw. Total failure. Kids, don't make meatloaf in a springform pan. We ate the asparagus, and the cupcakes I had (wisely) purchased. After that Jen took over Valentine's dinner
2) When I was in Americorps I lived for a while at a Salvation Army shelter, since it was the only place in town that had room to put up our emergency response team. The guy who ran it was really nice, and did the best he could with the supplies that were donated or purchased. But (A) He just added water to last night's entree to make the soup for lunch the next day. Lasagna soup...chow mein soup...fried rice soup... Yikes. I eventually started buying and hiding peanut butter and bread under my cot so I could sneak sandwiches. (B) Not exactly terrible, but just weird, someone had donated many, many pounds of almonds and instead of just letting people eat them as snacks, he added them to every recipe. Spaghetti with almonds! Burritos with almonds! Almond pizza! Almond scrambled eggs! (C) For some reason that may have been legit but I never understood, he never mixed up the powdered milk for breakfast until right before serving it, so we had hot powdered milk on our cereal every morning. Why not mix it the night before so it can cool overnight in the fridge?
Post by bluedaisyus on Feb 27, 2013 14:55:21 GMT -5
Hm. I don't know the worst meal I ever cooked, but I remember one of the worst meals I ever ate, if not THE worst. So, my grandma was NOT a good cook, but she loved to make noodles with white sauce. Well, one time when she did it, she made it with sugar instead of flour. Okay, now how does that even happen that someone mistakes SUGAR for FLOUR? NO idea, but somehow she did. And then she was wondering why it wasn't thickening up. So she finally figures it out, and instead of throwing it out and starting over she decided to just add flour to the concoction she already had. Oh. Em. Gee. It was AWFUL.
Post by never2amazing on Feb 27, 2013 15:06:59 GMT -5
hmmm...worst meal I ever made? That's tough, I am a pretty good cook...LOL! I think there was once that I undercooked chicken, and had to put everyone's back in the oven for awhile (I was living at my Mom's).
Worst meal I ever ate was at an Ethiopian restaurant. I took C there on one of our first outings together. We both pretended to like it. After we got together we came clean...it tasted like a$$!