Let me hear your well intended healthy recipe FAILS

WanderingRivers

Not a healthy recipe fail but a fail nonetheless. Many many moons ago, when Mr. KurumiSophia and I were first married, I got into my head that I was going to make him a roast. Not only that but I was gonna do a bacon wrapped roast because bacon makes everything better. So I'm prepping everything, cutting the veggies, seasoning and wrapping the roast. This is my very first roast and I'm following the recipe to the letter. Husband looks at me and says "Don't forget to put some liquid in there." Of course, I ignore him because there is nothing in the recipe about adding liquid of any sort and by the Gods, I am going to follow this recipe.

That was the worst mistake I ever made. It came out utterly dry and desiccated and the veggies were all burnt. I was in tears. This was supposed to be this awesome grand meal...and I made rubbish. Bless my hubby's heart. He ate it because I couldn't. It just killed me to see what was supposed to be amazing turn into something awful.

Lesson learned: ALWAYS add liquid when making a roast.

heavensshadow

kristen8000 wrote: »

So I had the idea of making Jello pudding, with Almond Milk instead of regular cow's milk (My BF is lactose intolerant and looking for ways to cut out dairy). Word to the wise, it doesn't set up.

I ended up with Lemon Soup.

@kristen8000 It does set up! You just have to use twice as much pudding mix. I also learned this the hard way.

kristen8000

@heavensshadow AH. I see. I'll try that next time - I guess it's just too much liquid.

LindaGilpin59

Tried to substitute cauliflower for Pasta in macaroni and cheese. Didn't taste bad but since I didn't know to squeeze out the water from the cauliflower it was soup like.

DX2JX2

LindaGilpin59 wrote: »

Tried to substitute cauliflower for Pasta in macaroni and cheese. Didn't taste bad but since I didn't know to squeeze out the water from the cauliflower it was soup like.

At that point, just mash it all together and make cheesy mashed cauliflower.

MandaLuvsHockey

These have made me laugh! Not good when I am supposed to be working

I follow a lady on Instagram who makes these amazing looking dishes she calls "Bubble Ups". Its basically canned biscuit dough, chopped into pieces with other ingredients. However I no longer live in Canada and can't find the dough here in the UK, so I tried to make it with the Jus-Rol lighter pastry. LOL even after hours of cooking the dough was still raw. Literally the hamburger that I used (it was a lasagna bubble up) was pretty much disintegrated
and the dough was still raw. Won't be trying those again until I have the right ingredients!

On a positive note, I made a lasagna using butternut squash sheets and I figured it would be horrible. Instead it was completely amazing and probably better than any other I had ever made.

Morgaen73

I made low calorie cheesecake once but added 2 tablespoons of salt instead of 1/2 teaspoon. It was horrid lol

Francl27

Mandunc wrote: »

These have made me laugh! Not good when I am supposed to be working

I follow a lady on Instagram who makes these amazing looking dishes she calls "Bubble Ups". Its basically canned biscuit dough, chopped into pieces with other ingredients. However I no longer live in Canada and can't find the dough here in the UK, so I tried to make it with the Jus-Rol lighter pastry. LOL even after hours of cooking the dough was still raw. Literally the hamburger that I used (it was a lasagna bubble up) was pretty much disintegrated
and the dough was still raw. Won't be trying those again until I have the right ingredients!

On a positive note, I made a lasagna using butternut squash sheets and I figured it would be horrible. Instead it was completely amazing and probably better than any other I had ever made.

Zucchini lasagna is awesome too. Never tried with butternut squash but it must be delicious. Just hate cutting the things.

abbynormalartist

Morgaen73 wrote: »

I made low calorie cheesecake once but added 2 tablespoons of salt instead of 1/2 teaspoon. It was horrid lol

For some reason that reminds me of the time I organized my pantry and moved all of my baking staples (salt, sugar, flour, etc) into these super pretty, uniform glass jars. I was going for a minimalist look and didn't have anything marked. Well, we still laugh at how badly my corn bread casserole tasted the next day when I mistakenly used a few tablespoons of salt instead of sugar. We all took one bite and, just like in a movie, spit it out.

Francl27

abbynormalartist wrote: »

Morgaen73 wrote: »

I made low calorie cheesecake once but added 2 tablespoons of salt instead of 1/2 teaspoon. It was horrid lol

For some reason that reminds me of the time I organized my pantry and moved all of my baking staples (salt, sugar, flour, etc) into these super pretty, uniform glass jars. I was going for a minimalist look and didn't have anything marked. Well, we still laugh at how badly my corn bread casserole tasted the next day when I mistakenly used a few tablespoons of salt instead of sugar. We all took one bite and, just like in a movie, spit it out.

Oh that reminds me. Was making cookies at a friend's house, his containers are not marked either... I mistook powdered sugar for flour. We had a good laugh and he didn't even care that I wasted all his supplies.

guysgal1174

When I was a kid I wanted to bake a cake. I chose an apple spice snacking cake. The instructions stated 1/4 cup white vinegar OR apple cider vinegar. I didn't read the OR so it became AND. We ate "vinegar" cake for dessert that night lol.

nusisauk47

Francl27 wrote: »

abbynormalartist wrote: »

Morgaen73 wrote: »

I made low calorie cheesecake once but added 2 tablespoons of salt instead of 1/2 teaspoon. It was horrid lol

For some reason that reminds me of the time I organized my pantry and moved all of my baking staples (salt, sugar, flour, etc) into these super pretty, uniform glass jars. I was going for a minimalist look and didn't have anything marked. Well, we still laugh at how badly my corn bread casserole tasted the next day when I mistakenly used a few tablespoons of salt instead of sugar. We all took one bite and, just like in a movie, spit it out.

Oh that reminds me. Was making cookies at a friend's house, his containers are not marked either... I mistook powdered sugar for flour. We had a good laugh and he didn't even care that I wasted all his supplies.

And it reminded me mistaking garlic powder with white pepper. Exactly same spice bottles with same color caps. And I do love garlic so I just seasoned the veggies with a big big big amount of it as I was lazy to play with the regular garlic that day.
Thanks god I do like spicy things too but well I've learnt my boundaries.

JESS96921

Salad... followed by 6 chocolate bourbons, loads of celebrations and a glass of wine

JetJaguar

nusisauk47 wrote: »

Francl27 wrote: »

abbynormalartist wrote: »

Morgaen73 wrote: »

I made low calorie cheesecake once but added 2 tablespoons of salt instead of 1/2 teaspoon. It was horrid lol

For some reason that reminds me of the time I organized my pantry and moved all of my baking staples (salt, sugar, flour, etc) into these super pretty, uniform glass jars. I was going for a minimalist look and didn't have anything marked. Well, we still laugh at how badly my corn bread casserole tasted the next day when I mistakenly used a few tablespoons of salt instead of sugar. We all took one bite and, just like in a movie, spit it out.

Oh that reminds me. Was making cookies at a friend's house, his containers are not marked either... I mistook powdered sugar for flour. We had a good laugh and he didn't even care that I wasted all his supplies.

And it reminded me mistaking garlic powder with white pepper. Exactly same spice bottles with same color caps. And I do love garlic so I just seasoned the veggies with a big big big amount of it as I was lazy to play with the regular garlic that day.
Thanks god I do like spicy things too but well I've learnt my boundaries.

My wife's parents live with us, and my MIL is constantly moving things around and reorganizing things. She does this all over the house, not just the kitchen. Usually it just means I can't find anything or I buy stuff we don't need because I didn't see it and assumed we're out, but there was that time she emptied the corn starch into an unlabeled glass jar, then refilled the corn starch container with baking soda.

Alatariel75

Not mine, but a coworker told me yesterday that her husband made their usual morning green smoothie but, in an effort to clean our the vegetable drawer, added a leek.



I'll just let y'all imagine how that might have ended up.

merifey

I was trying to use up a lot of broccoli I had and decided to try a crockpot recipe for broccoli and cheddar soup. I learned never to cook that much broccoli for that long, it tasted like bitter, old greenness. Blech.

Also a long while ago, my dad wanted brownies but didn't want to make them so handed a box mix to my then 10 year old sister and said "Here you go, just follow the directions". She mistakenly used grabbed the vinegar instead of vegetable oil and my dad ended up having sweet and sour brownies.

SkylerSayys

Ever had pumpkin pie without any seasoning? One year for thanksgiving the whole family decided to make pumpkin pie out of the pumpkins my grandfather grew. Since everyone was helping.... obviously we all had to forget something. We ended up with mushed pumpkin in a pie crust and it did NOT taste like pie

mlrtri

Spaghetti squash did not turn out well. I wouldn't even eat it. We went out to eat instead.

unigirl143

I tried to make an Alfredo pasta recipe with zucchini instead of noodles. (I had just gotten my new spirallizer and wanted to test it lol). Well, I forgot to pat the water out of the zucchini and ended up with soup. At least it still tasted good.