Wondering what everyone elses worst recipes have been.
Here are a few from my hall of shame
-Pure Pulp Crackers
Trying to be a good environmentalist, I decided to use the pulp from my juicer that had been there (the days worth) and make flax crackers with it. There must have been 20 different types of veggie pulp, Collard greens, kale, tomato, carrot, cucumber, beet, pumpkin, squash, apple, zuccini etc. So I tossed them into a batch of flax crackers with some other ingredients. Not a great idea at all. While they certainly were pretty with all the colours of the rainbow they tasted like sewage or something from one of the 7 layers of hell. In fact I am certain that if there is a raw restaurant in hell, these crackers would be all that were on the menu. To make matters worse all the pulp made it seem like you were eating dental floss after the dehydrating. I wanted a bit of extra fiber in my diet but corrogated cardboard would have tasted better.
-Chipotle Inferno Flaming Ring of Fire Crackers
How many chipotle peppers are too much to add to your flax crackers? Apparently 7. These firely little devils snuck up on me. It seemed fine when I was making the flax batter and they just didn't seem hot enough so I kept throwing in more chipotle. Once dehydrated I ate one and it was akin to sticking a flaming hot spoon in my mouth. I had heartburn all night (after one) and could feel it's fire working its way down to well, you get the idea. Had to toss these.
-The saltiest dressing ever
If you love to put a spoon of salt in your mouth then this dressing would be for you. I used miso, nama shoyu and salt with garlic and oil. Duh miso is salty enough without nama and salt. I think I got my yearly supply of sodium in one serving.
What are some of your food nightmare creations?
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Yes I have made some gross stuff out of recipe books too. One being Mushroom Ragout. I love mushrooms but it looked like vomit and tasted pretty much the same. Yuck.
Jaundice dressing LOL.
Looove your recipe stories :) They're hilarious :) I haven't had too many raw "uncooking" disasters, but usually my dinners end up looking like really unappetizing gloop :( At least my husby is a good sport about eating the stuff that looks like someone puked in a bowl :) Sometimes when I juice especially when I'm using up whatever's left in the fridge before our next CSA box it looks especially bad, quite sewagy :( Yuck :(
Well as long as it tastes good! That is all that matters. And if it is gloop then it goes down easy!
I tried to take some cabbage and put it with water into a dehydrator and thought maybe it would warm up be a little bit like when it is being cooked but all i got were some leaves that tasted like paper
I had made a smoothie with oranges, cacao, and goji berries. It sounded like it would taste good but ewwww. I tried to force it down anyways. I just couldn't waste the cacao and goji!
i tried to make a green smoothie with mustard greens once.. i ended up throwing it out
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