My Dinner Failed!!!

[Blubayou]

Originally Posted by Jeanie

Sherri,

I tired making chili for the first time a couple of weeks ago-

I have never made chili before-as it is really not my favorite thing.

I soaked the beans for almost 2 days- cooked them for hours before adding ground beef ect.

I started it at 9 am and when it was all said and done by 5pm those stupid beans were still firm.

I am clueless as to what went wrong :-(

The trick is to use canned beans! I add one or two cans of pinto beans to any chili I make. Love Chili!

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Ron

Is that code for "stomach pump?"

Apparently, my nephew didn't mind. He took the tray home after Thanksgiving dinner. I don't know why substituting half brown sugar for all white sugar would make a difference.

[rgcraig]

YES!

I found a new recipe for a crock pot chicken dish that sounded sooooo good. It was terrible.............even in the crock pot the chicken was dry and tasteless.

The mango, coconut rice that I made to go with it was good though!

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Blubayou

The trick is to use canned beans! I add one or two cans of pinto beans to any chili I make. Love Chili!

Or Bush's Chili Beans......it's really easy that way!

[OneAccord]

I tried making gravy a few months ago. Failed at making gravy, but made a fine combination paste, dumplings, bread and goo! And thats exactly how it tasted. Thats before I learned you cook nothing on high. Making gravy on HIGH does not a good gravy make.

[ILG]

One time, I made some chocolate chip bars in a old oven we had. There was something wrong with the oven. The bars looked absolutely beautiful but when you put a knife in, you had to just jam it in and then you could pwing it and it would go Dong! We had a really good laugh over that one!

[steve p]

'My wife makes the BEST chicked marsala. She uses marsala wine. Thank goodness im not a preacher....I work in a Methodist church where its NORMAL to have wine in your grocery cart! HAHA!!
Sherri, I'll let ya borrow a cup of wine next time!!!
Blessings!

(Oh, yeah, never and I mean NEVER EVER try to make chicken and dumplings with hickory smoked chicken meat,,,,,,,,the whole dinner tasted BURNED!!!)

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by Sherri

Have you ever tried a new recipe and it was HORRIBLE??? I fixed Chicken Marsala tonight, and it was really NOT GOOD. I don't have any wine, and didn't really want to walk around the local grocery store with a bottle, so I had read online that you could use unsweetened red grape juice and you couldn't tell the difference. Well, someone lied! It was awful - no flavor and very pink and gooey. At least the other stuff was good - roasted parmesan potatoes and broccoli. And I made an Apple Crunch dessert, so I kind of redeemed myself. I just hate it when you spend all that time and then it's YUCKY! Glad I didn't spend a lot of money too.

Anyone else want to share a failure story and make me feel better?

Yes!

I've had TWO failures in the last month!

I found a recipe for fudge on the internet that looked scrumptous.........I still don't know how it could have turned out so horrible!

Also, I made a walnut cake that I thought would be good. I wasted a whole pound of walnuts. My husband pretended to like them both!

[Margies3]

One time I made biscuits that called for either baking soda or baking powder. I can't remember which. But whichever it was, I used the opposite. They were true hockey pucks!! Even the dog wouldn't eat them!

The other day I made steaks using my George Foreman. They were GOOD steaks! 2" thick. Those little round ones that you put the bacon around. What are they called? I don't remember, but I know they are expensive! Walt's Company he works for gave them to us. So I cooked them on GF. My bro-in-law, the chef was here. He told me they were done just medium. So I took them off. He lied! They were running blood all over the place! That was fine with him and Walt and Keith. But I want mine PINK, not swimming. So I put mine back on George. By the time I took it off, I had shoe leather. GEeesh!!

By the way, try making your chili without beans. It's way better that way

[Cindy]

I don't put beans in my chili.
Sorry about your wine problem Sherri.