Please share your recent food fails to make me feel better

[Anonymous]

1. In an effort to be a smidge healthier, I bought the skim ricotta instead of the whole ricotta. I made a pasta dish with it. It was so big that it didn't fit in the pan, so the little extra went in a smaller pan. I ate a bit Wednesday. Later, I didn't feel well but thought nothing of it. Thursday, I went to eat the rest of what was in the smaller pan and 20-30 minutes later my stomach hurt. I'm sensitive to some types of dairy but ricotta has always been fine. Well, apparently skim ricotta is NOT fine. I just threw out the big pan of the pasta dish, which would have been four meals. I can't handle my stomach hurting for 8-12 hours each time. Guess I will have to find other ways to be more healthy.

2. Tonight, I went to make baked chicken and planned to have a baked potato with it. I have three potatoes. Grabbed one, and it sprouted. So did the other two. Had to throw all three potatoes out. Honestly, if I hadn't already put the chicken in the oven at that point, I'd have just given up and gotten takeout. But no, I will have quinoa and brown rice instead of a baked potato.

[Anonymous]

This is shameful and please, nobody laugh at me:

I have lost my brownie mojo. I cannot make a decent pan of brownies anymore.

I've switched up ingredients, recipes, pans, nothing works, it all tastes like blah brownie-colored cardboard.

[Anonymous]

I can’t cook at all without a good recipe, so I think you’re both admirable!

Not what you asked for in the thread title, but still.

[Anonymous]

I followed a crock-pot recipe for chicken bolognese sauce. It came out like ground chicken mixed with diced tomatoes, not like a cohesive sauce. I still ate it, over cauliflower rice with hot sauce. It was fine, but more stew-y and less saucy.

[Anonymous]

I once followed a chili recipe that had a ton of different ingredients. It tasted like nothing. It’s like all the ingredients cancelled each other out. I still cannot understand how it had no flavor.

[Anonymous]

I cooked a froze pizza without taking it off the cardboard circle.

[Anonymous]

I forgot the cheese in spinach pie once.

[Anonymous]

I tried to make genuine whoopie pies. I even bought shortening (yuck) to take a crack at the filling being old school.

For my recipe, which I researched, I used red cocoa, very expensive stuff I had bought and saved. Thought it would be great. Can’t remember the ditched or I ditched part or how that works.

Some kind of weird chemical thing happened and the chocolate batter tasted a bit off and the baked cookies where well off and gross. Trashed it all and didn’t make the nasty filling. I still have expensive red cocoa and nasty shortening in my cupboard.

[Anonymous]

Ditched = DUTCHED.

[Anonymous]

It’s not the skim that was the issue.

[Anonymous]

I’ve cut out the sprouts and cooked the potatoes when that happens:

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have FB look up the Italian very popular page ‘cucinaremale’ an amazing and funny photo collection of cooking fails

Nobody uses Facebook.

[Anonymous]

So many! And I am a good cook, but failure is part of the process. I always run into trouble when I get creative to use up ingredients or make huge batches:

-2 loves of honey wheat bread that turned out like bricks
-a big batch of smitten kitchen mac and cheese. I followed the recipe really closely and worked hard on making a smooth sauce, then my kid thought it was "weird" vs my usual slapped together mac and cheese. I think it's okay but don't want or need to eat a pan of it.
-farro and broccoli salad for lunches, was good but reality is I do not want or need to eat farro salad for 5 days
-chicken thighs. I marinated them and really wanted to bake them until they had crispy skin but then the meat was kind of overcooked and stringy

[Anonymous]

You can cook potatoes that have sprouted. I’ve done it many times.