Creative Food Disasters

LOL I made a london broil last night. The recipe said to brown both sides and then put it in the oven for 20 minutes. I did, and it was still mooing when I took it out. So I looked online and found a recipe that said to broil it. I'm terrified of the broiler, but bravely dug out the broiler pan (thank heaven the website said not to use foil!!!) and stuck that hunk of cow under the broiler. Nothing caught fire, but there was some smoke. The beef was tough from me cooking it three different ways, and a huge disappointment for all that work! Further more, I just got braces (again) and have a hard time eating anyway! I guess it helped with portion control!

I tried to make protein crepes once. It was a gigantic dry disgusting mess.

I saw a bunch of cold overnight oatmeal ideas on Pinterest and tried one of them. It was like flavorless gloppy paste...even with tons of berries, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc...it seemed like the oatmeal and almond milk just sucked up all of the other flavors and there was absolutely nothing good about it. Even when I added more berries and some sugar free syrup, it was terrible. Ick

I just made overnight oatmeal last night, had it this morning (for the first time!!) and it was MINDBLOWINGLY GOOD. My diary is public so you can see what I put in it: a tablespoon of peach jam, half a cup of greek yogurt, a handful of frozen blueberries, and 1/4 cup of oatmeal. I didn't put any milk in it, (I guess I misremembered the recipe!) but I think that greatly improved it. Also, haha, sugar-free syrup sounds kinda gross!! Try it my way, it was seriously like eating ice cream or something.

I saw a bunch of cold overnight oatmeal ideas on Pinterest and tried one of them. It was like flavorless gloppy paste...even with tons of berries, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc...it seemed like the oatmeal and almond milk just sucked up all of the other flavors and there was absolutely nothing good about it. Even when I added more berries and some sugar free syrup, it was terrible. Ick

I just made overnight oatmeal last night, had it this morning (for the first time!!) and it was MINDBLOWINGLY GOOD. My diary is public so you can see what I put in it: a tablespoon of peach jam, half a cup of greek yogurt, a handful of frozen blueberries, and 1/4 cup of oatmeal. I didn't put any milk in it, (I guess I misremembered the recipe!) but I think that greatly improved it. Also, haha, sugar-free syrup sounds kinda gross!! Try it my way, it was seriously like eating ice cream or something.

I may have to try that!! Thanks.

But I've gotta add...I LOVE Cary's brand sugar free syrup! Just a tiny bit of that on ANY type of pancakes...mmmm...also when I make French toast, I love to put sliced strawberries on top and then drizzle a tiny bit of the SF syrup and wait a couple min...it is like delicious fruit flavored syrup. So good! They also have it at IHOP.

I also have Maple Grove SF syrup which is just meh, but does have a much more maple-y taste. I had some of that just this AM on top of steel cut oats (soaked in milk & water and cooked on the stove top yesterday morning) with some black walnuts. It was awesome.

In my mind, I pictured each popcorn piece being wonderfully glazed in just a pinch of sauce.

:laugh: In my mind, I truly believed that:
- agar-agar mixed with cordial = delicious vegetarian jelly/jello. Not chalky, crumbling rubber.
- stuffing and roasting a hollowed-out beetroot would DEFINITELY not taste like pickled dirt.
- chia seeds, sprinkled onto salad or breakfast, were an excellent source of omega fatty acids. Also, a demon-possessed multitude of bitter slimy toad eggs that ooze into every corner of your mouth and cannot be gotten rid of.

OP, if you want a glaze of anything on popcorn, get an enormous mixing bowl and lightly smear the topping all over the inside of the bowl. Then throw in some plain popcorn and toss it like a salad until it's coated. Works every time. :drinker:

I onced made some savory sweet potato muffins. Ran out of chilli flakes so I used cajun seasoning.
Took a bite and spat it out. Tasted like burnt dirt.

Cauliflower pizza crust. I looked up lots of recipes before attempting it and settled on one with legions of comments saying that it worked, wow, every other cauliflower crust sucked, but this was the one!

I thought I'd be happy with it because I had no illusions of it being a real pizza crust. I knew there was no way this thing would be a substitute for delicious, calorie-laden bread. I just expected a reasonably solid cauliflower disc that I might put stuff on.

My cauliflower crust turned out to be more of a cauliflower mash, except not good. I like mashed cauliflower, but this thing was so disgusting that I threw it away and went out to dinner.

I saw a bunch of cold overnight oatmeal ideas on Pinterest and tried one of them. It was like flavorless gloppy paste...even with tons of berries, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc...it seemed like the oatmeal and almond milk just sucked up all of the other flavors and there was absolutely nothing good about it. Even when I added more berries and some sugar free syrup, it was terrible. Ick

I just made overnight oatmeal last night, had it this morning (for the first time!!) and it was MINDBLOWINGLY GOOD. My diary is public so you can see what I put in it: a tablespoon of peach jam, half a cup of greek yogurt, a handful of frozen blueberries, and 1/4 cup of oatmeal. I didn't put any milk in it, (I guess I misremembered the recipe!) but I think that greatly improved it. Also, haha, sugar-free syrup sounds kinda gross!! Try it my way, it was seriously like eating ice cream or something.

well, you just blew my calories for the day

(note: I'll quadruple this recipe)

Awesome, haha. Let me know if you like it!

I tried to make home-made hummus - I didn't have tahini - so I used soy sauce - was absolutely disgusting - this was years ago, my husband still likes to joke about it.................!