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rob, Wed 14 Jan 2004, 13:01)
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Learning to FryI'd like to think I can cook quite well these days, but it was a different story when I first left home and moved away to uni, and much of my cooking 'technique' was based on daft ideas which seemed logical at the time. I've not been allowed to forget the time I tried to make a cheese sauce to go with some pasta and got it horribly, horribly wrong - it turned out as a sort of broth, which could only be described as "yellow, with lumps."
It wouldn't have been so bad if it had only been me eating the damn thing.
So, in the hope that this will generate some hilarious and disgusting stories, rather than boring foody threads: how many of your culinary experiments have gone completely tits up, to great embarrassment (or greater indigestion)? Alternatively, how many times have you been forced to alter or experiment with recipes ("Onions? I'm out of onions! I'll have to use...jam!") and invented something which was actually really nice?
(, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 10:29, 1 reply, 15 years ago)
Baked AlaskaMy brother-in-law is a twat. Don't feel sorry for him (actually, do...) he readily admits to being one.
Once he tried to make a Baked Alaska. Didn't have any cream of tartar, so searched the cupboards for the next best thing....hmm....cream of tartar = tartar sauce!!
Couldn't find any tartar sauce in the cupboard either, so searched for the next best thing.....hmm....what's like tartar sauce? Aha! Mayonnaise of course.
Tasted like shit.
(, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 10:22, Reply)
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