wrong way meals

[twirl]

how about some dinner ideas that went the wrong way
we are low on groceries - so I made my husband "chili"
1can Wolf brand no beans chili
1can Ranch Style beans
1 can rotel
1 can chopped tomatoes
mix, heat and eat   
and apologize to cats---- the can opener noise and no cat food
my husband added cooked rice to it and loved it and is taking the rest to school for lunch Tuesday (?)
I thought it sucked

[monrein]

Many, many years ago I decided to cook tripe, Jamaican style like we used to have when I was a kid, for our dinner.  I was only 19 and had no recipe so I just made it up as best I could.  My husband (boyfriend at that time) came into our graduate residence apartment and was disgusted by the smell in there.  I assured him that it smelt nasty but tasted delicious.  So he took one bite and said the it tasted EXACTLY how it smelt and we were going to air out the apt., toss the tripe and go out for dinner.

OK fine, beg me to go out for dinner. 

[Joe Paul]

Many, many years ago I decided to cook tripe, Jamaican style like we used to have when I was a kid, for our dinner.  I was only 19 and had no recipe so I just made it up as best I could.  My husband (boyfriend at that time) came into our graduate residence apartment and was disgusted by the smell in there.  I assured him that it smelt nasty but tasted delicious.  So he took one bite and said the it tasted EXACTLY how it smelt and we were going to air out the apt., toss the tripe and go out for dinner.

OK fine, beg me to go out for dinner. 

LOL, thats GREAT!

[G-Ma]

lol.....my honey talks about his favorite foods from home...Mexico....wanted us to try to make "Menudo" I think it is spelled...well I like soups and make some good ones so he told me what was in it and when he got to these particular ingredients I said NO WAY...you find some nice Mexican families around here that make it and beg it off of them and no I don't want any..no thanks...so when he went home this spring he ate his fill for awhile again..I guess it is a major specialty and is made in HUGE canner type pots and everyone comes to eat......blech....

[twirl]

 
The first St. Patrick's Day I was married I made a stew with potatoes and roast and I added green food coloring to honor St. Patrick's Day.
It was meat and potatoes so my husband ate it anyways.....

[David13]

The first St. Patrick's Day I was married I made a stew with potatoes and roast and I added green food coloring to honor St. Patrick's Day.
It was meat and potatoes so my husband ate it anyways.....

Did you have some green beer to go with it?   

[twirl]

I already had the beer------

[thegrammalady]

i once made a squash casserole (cheese and several variety of squash) i thought it was fine, my family acted as if i had requested they eat rat poison.

[twirl]

sounds good to me
I love squash and cheese

[kitkatz]

I made a dish for my kids that we called cat food.  I mixed mashed potatoes or rice with cheese and tuna.   Mix it up and eat it.  My kids would request CAT FOOD for dinner!

[pelagia]

I am a pretty good cook, but anytime I try to make Chinese style anything - DISASTER. I think it's the lack of salt.

[MIbarra]

G-Ma, my husband can not stand menudo either. I think you have to grow up with it. For those of you that don't know it is a soup with ground chilis, hominy, and tripe served with onion, lime, usually oregano, sometimes raw cabbage to put on top. Some say it is wonderful after a hangover.

Ok, I did not personally do this.. but my husband's ex-wife did. When they first married (and they were very young) she did not know how to cook at all. No experience, non, zip nada. My hubby loved pork chops at the time so she decided to cook pork chops and called someone to ask for advice. They told her after she took the pork chops out of the package she needed to wash them off a bit to get all the bits of bone off before she cooked them. So she washed them alright -- with dish soap and all! Poor hubby had to eat soapy pork chops!

He was glad when he married me. At least I had some experience in the kitchen. Enough to know to not use soap on the meat anyway!

[twirl]

that is so funny
did he get sick
lemon joy might had a lemony flavor

Kitkatz- my cats would love that dish
did you make it up or was it a real recipe
can't laugh too much
Tuna Sandwhich
toast
peanut butter on toast
tuna in middle
add lettuce
I only eat this at home---- afraid people would gag if they knew what I was eating

[peleroja]

I love a good menudo.  Like everyone else I've had my cooking disasters, although none come to mind at the moment (I hate cooking and do it so seldom).

[annabanana]

peanut butter and tuna??? I am SO tempted to try it!

[jbeany]

I like to use the frozen bread loaves to make pizza crust.  Thaw in the micro, spread on cookie sheet - instant deep dish pizza crust.  I was planning to make one for dinner one night.  Popped the loaf in the micro, set it to defrost a few minutes, then left it to finish thawing until my husband got home for dinner.  When he got home, he had a last minute invite to go out with friends, so we took off and I forgot all about the pizza.  Hubby remembered it for me the next day at lunch time.  He dished up a plate of leftovers from the fridge, popped open the door to the micro, then yelled in shock and dropped the plate.  The forgotten loaf had thawed and risen - filling the microwave and oozing out at him like something alive when he opened the door!

[annabanana]

    What a great image!

[twirl]

anna , yeah and hello
it is tuna drained out of the can - not mixed or anything
the peanut butter gives it a nutty taste
and how are you

[kitkatz]

Oh yes it is a real recipe I made up on the spur of the moment. The mashed potatoes work better than the rice. But both are good with lots of pepper in it.

Tuna and peanut butter.. What are you thinking!

[twirl]

mashed potatoes, tuna and cheese and what was I thinking?
add a little peanut butter and then we'll talk
can you imagine what dinner would be like it we had a pot luck
did you get the recipes for those choco things my son loves

[G-Ma]

Nutty TUNA??? twirl....no wonder you don't feel good sometimes..   .....all of you menudo lovers unite...."tripe" yup, that was the word that sent me over the edge...I grew up on a farm and I know what that is and where it comes from and I don't give a flying flip how much you clean those things they are still what they are..................blech...    
how funny, the clean pork chops..............I would need a scroll to list all my cooking mistakes....my hs home ec teacher had me believing she walked on water so when she said meals should be colorful I took it to heart....roast, corn with bright blue mashed potatoes and gravy of course...I have no idea how my dad stomached that one and it goes on........that was one of my first meals I cooked.   

[twirl]

G-ma     WE NEED MORE STORIES

[pelagia]

Here are all my stories about eating or not eating the odd parts of the meal:

One time my father took my sister and me to a wonderful Italian restaurant that had a Sunday buffet.  I filled my plate with so many things that I didn't know what everything was.  It was all delicious until I got to the plastic.  Huh?  Plastic in a light tomato sauce.  Oh no, wait, that's tripe.  Last tripe for me....

One time Stephen and I bought into a lamb-raising enterprise.  When the lambs (or maybe they were sheep at this point) met their demise we received all kinds of chops and roasts, as well as eyeballs.  I wasn't sure what to do with those...

Back in the 80s I worked in a restaurant kitchen as the all-around handy person.  Stephen was playing music at this restaurant 3 nights a week and I was lonely... The chef, who was African-American, made a pot of chitlins, a traditional dish in this area of the US.  It's made from pork intestines.  I tried it, twice, just to be sure how much I don't like it.

When I was a girl I had no idea that people ate tongue.  One day I was at a friend's house and went to the frig to get a drink.  There was a HUGE cow tongue sitting on a plate.  I can still see it vividly in my mind more than 40 years later.  Anyone remember that album cover with the tongue on the front?

And then we went to France, where eating all the parts is part of a regular day.  I am sure they would be delicious if I would just try them.  Maybe next time.

I had a Korean scientist visit my lab for two years and got to know his family pretty well.  He is my age and grew up in the aftermath of the Korean war.  That war more or less flattened Korea and it was a very poor time to grow up.  I heard his stories about wearing rubber shoes (if there were shoes at all) and having nothing much to eat.  One time my friend took me to a special section of Seoul, an older section, which has nice shops and restaurants.  The street vendors sell roasted insect larvae.  They are one of Lim's favorite foods, but I could not bring myself to eat them.  I felt terrible and decided that if I ever went back to Korea and had the opportunity to try them, I would.  And I did!  I went back about a year later and asked to have roasted insect larvae.  I had to share though because the little cup they give you has about a gazillion larvae and I was good for about 2 or 3.  They tasted like hay smells but were a bit too squishy for me.  Might be better fried. 

[rose1999]

Anyone remember that album cover with the tongue on the front?

Do you mean this one? - it was sold a couple of days ago, apparently the designer was paid £50 in the 1970s but the Stones liked it so much they gave him a £100 tip!! (Bet he wishes he'd kept the copyright)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7592515.stm
 
The original artwork for The Rolling Stones' iconic lips and tongue symbol has been bought by London's Victoria and Albert Museum.

The logo, originally designed in 1970 and used by the rock band ever since, sold in the US for $92,500 (£51,375).

[pelagia]

that's it!