Cooking experiments gone bad

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whatevergirl said:
Hmmm…we could do a lot of damage together, I think…lol I TOTALLY agree about cannolis. I am a little tenative to make them at home…but if you find the perfect Italian bakery (like the women don’t speak English kind lol)…you are in for a treat!!

I can’t believe the cannolis I have had in my life from so so bakeries…making them with whipped cream and not ricotta cheese ?

Mama mia!😃
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I live in a place that has at least five Italian enclaves. The little Italian store on my way to church has cannolis it buys from Taylor St. Bakery. And yes, they have ricotta. They also sell sesame cookies, and those cookies with the cherry in the middle, and chocolate spice drops.
 
FickleFreckled said:
OutChgBurbs,
Me too! My idea of seing the sights is to find indoor markets and eat my way across the country…

We have this great (but sooo expensive, so I don’t visit often) market here called Central Market that has all kinds of gourmet foods, a fresh fish and seafood area about a mile long, lots of shiny decorations for cookies and things, and I think every olive, olive oil and bread known to man. It’s heaven on earth.
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Isn’t that fun, to see how people really live? My DH tolerates it, but the real sites for me are supermarkets and thrift stores and libraries.

When we travel, I also like to “live off the land” so to speak. I get a cooler, and some ice, or make sure we have a fridge in the room. I think I am the only person I know who uses my Dominick’s Fresh Card in Von’s and Safeway in Vegas.😃 After all, they are all the same store chain.
 
Just_wondering said:
I admit, I visit grocery stores on vacation, too! I love seeing what’s available in one area that’s not in another. I’ve been grocery shopping in France, Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan, as well as Korea and Canada. I even buy non-perishables to put in my luggage if they have something particularly good. 😊
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I do that, too!!! Thing is, to get Canadian food, sadly, all I have to do is go to a Dollar Bill’s or a Dollar Tree.And Canada has some unique variations on food and brand name products.

Hispanic products- Also very easy. If I liked powdered detergent, I could get Ace (Tide) in a sort of plastic, sort of paper sack at most markets in my town. I have 4 septic packs of BOING! in my pantry, one of which is guava.
 
During my DDs vegetarian phase I tried to make a lentil roast (following a recipe), it was b-a-d.

When my sister was about 16 she made macaroni cheese for supper one night (her favourite meal). When she served it, it was disgusting, she was the first to admit it, and our two dogs of the eat-anything kind also refused it. I found out years later that when she got impatient with a white sauce not thickening fast enough, she just added more and more flour :eek: explained the macaroni cheese.

The cup cakes I made in the microwave, that could have been paving stones.

The fruit cake that was fine on the outside, but totally raw inside.

I’m sure if you asked my DDs they’d remember more!!
 
OutinChgoBurbs,
With you on the thrift stores, too. My friends think I’m weird, but you can get some great deals. I got a brand new Jones of New York suit for $18. at a charity resale shop, tags still on it, and Ralph Lauren jeans for $6. Good deals on antiques, too.
 
VivienneJ said:
During my DDs vegetarian phase I tried to make a lentil roast (following a recipe), it was b-a-d.

When my sister was about 16 she made macaroni cheese for supper one night (her favourite meal). When she served it, it was disgusting, she was the first to admit it, and our two dogs of the eat-anything kind also refused it. I found out years later that when she got impatient with a white sauce not thickening fast enough, she just added more and more flour :eek: explained the macaroni cheese.

The cup cakes I made in the microwave, that could have been paving stones.

The fruit cake that was fine on the outside, but totally raw inside.

I’m sure if you asked my DDs they’d remember more!!
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are we all related? 😛 😃 Those are funny stories!!!
 
OMGosh… I think we are all totally sisters at heart! Dh and I went to thrift shops on our honeymoon…

Once one of my foster daughters wanted to make dinner that she had seen me make a million times… mac and cheese with tuna… she didn’t drain the water…ewwwwwww…
 
Well, I’ve had a lot of experiments that came out pretty “bleh”, but not usually the “spit-it-out-and-cry” kind of bad.

But I remember how I tried making up a recipe once. I love peas mixed with rice, and I love baked beans mixed with rice…but I learned that peas and baked beans mixed together with rice tastes DISGUSTING!!! :bigyikes:
 
I’ve done the same thing with Mac&Cheese, but I tried to thicken it with parmesan cheese. Yep, never doing that again. 😊
 
Can I tell on somebody else? Not fair, maybe, but it’s an ex so anything goes, right? My ex was from another country. Dishes he loved, I’d never even heard of before we met. So he cooked on occasion.
Once he surprised me with eggplant (which I hate anyway) and I don’t know what in the world he did to it, but have you ever smelled burning rubber? It was so gross and so pungent and so oily a smell that it seemed to seep into the walls and I could smell it for weeks. It was so awful. And he felt so bad. Another time, he surprised me with beef tongue. (I should have learned by then never to go into the office on Saturdays because he’d cook unsupervised…) Well, I’d seen them in the grocery store, hadn’t ever eaten one, didn’t have anything against it. It’s beef, right? I came home this particular day and it was simmering on the stove in a pot that was really too small. Unfurled, they’re pretty big. The tongue was humongous, half of it hanging over the edge of the pot with all the taste buds sticking out all over the place. It was a surprise, remember? I had no warning. I nearly passed out when I saw it. It was pretty good, but he told that story on me for a long time.
 
FickleFreckled said:
Another time, he surprised me with beef tongue. (I should have learned by then never to go into the office on Saturdays because he’d cook unsupervised…) Well, I’d seen them in the grocery store, hadn’t ever eaten one, didn’t have anything against it. It’s beef, right? I came home this particular day and it was simmering on the stove in a pot that was really too small. Unfurled, they’re pretty big. The tongue was humongous, half of it hanging over the edge of the pot with all the taste buds sticking out all over the place. It was a surprise, remember? I had no warning. I nearly passed out when I saw it. It was pretty good, but he told that story on me for a long time.
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Ah FickleFreckled, I love ox tongue (part of Christmas when I was growing up) but if I look at it too long as I prepare it or think about it too much its … revolting.
As for egg plant :eek:
 
Vivienne,
I’m not versed in beef tongue so maybe you can answer a question - he said he’d give me the "good’ part - the inside - and he’d take the outside because ‘Americans don’t like it.’ The inside was very tender, substantial and tasty, sort of like veal.
The part he ate, well, it was stringy and gelatinous and sort of looked like, well, uh…sort of like snot.
Did he cook it wrong or is that the way it’s supposed to be? Is there any way to avoid that?
 
FickleFreckled said:
Can I tell on somebody else? Not fair, maybe, but it’s an ex so anything goes, right? My ex was from another country. Dishes he loved, I’d never even heard of before we met. So he cooked on occasion.
Once he surprised me with eggplant (which I hate anyway) and I don’t know what in the world he did to it, but have you ever smelled burning rubber? It was so gross and so pungent and so oily a smell that it seemed to seep into the walls and I could smell it for weeks. It was so awful. And he felt so bad. Another time, he surprised me with beef tongue. (I should have learned by then never to go into the office on Saturdays because he’d cook unsupervised…) Well, I’d seen them in the grocery store, hadn’t ever eaten one, didn’t have anything against it. It’s beef, right? I came home this particular day and it was simmering on the stove in a pot that was really too small. Unfurled, they’re pretty big. The tongue was humongous, half of it hanging over the edge of the pot with all the taste buds sticking out all over the place. It was a surprise, remember? I had no warning. I nearly passed out when I saw it. It was pretty good, but he told that story on me for a long time.
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This sounds like a Fear *Factor *episode…lol Really, yuck. Sounds so awful. :o 😛
 
FickleFreckled said:
Vivienne,
I’m not versed in beef tongue so maybe you can answer a question - he said he’d give me the "good’ part - the inside - and he’d take the outside because ‘Americans don’t like it.’ The inside was very tender, substantial and tasty, sort of like veal.
The part he ate, well, it was stringy and gelatinous and sort of looked like, well, uh…sort of like snot.
Did he cook it wrong or is that the way it’s supposed to be? Is there any way to avoid that?
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:bigyikes:

There needs to be a vomiting emoticon on these forums. This sounds so horrible…please, is this your last post about the tongue? :rotfl:
 
Whatevergirl,

Oh pul-lease! It’s no worse than the breast milk in coffee!!!
 
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Ok!! Decorum! Please, ladies! Yes. I agree with whatevergirl. We need a barf smilie.
 
FickleFreckled said:
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Ok!! Decorum! Please, ladies! Yes. I agree with whatevergirl. We need a barf smilie.
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eh hem…yes, i’m sorry. lost my head. 😉 lol i get that way around a short workweek. only two days to work this week…

back to the topic…beef tongue sounds absolutely putrid. i could not eat something that came out of the animal’s MOUTH. Ugh. No way. My mom used to eat pork rinds and orange juice…served together. http://images.dmusic.com/v7/emoticons/faint.gif
 
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