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[Ndy]

Yeh, I think besides adding more stock and a little cream, you need to put that through a Chinois or a really fine sieve.. Straining all that stuff will give it a silk smooth texture..

Edit to add: I also would add a little grade b maple syrup and cayenne but, thats just me.. I might also a little green apple to the mix..

good point on the chinois

[auds]

Hi everyone--my first post, and of course it's in the gallery of regrettable foods. Sigh. So apologies for the blurriness of the photo, but the idea was this: my best pal was getting married. In college, he lived on these entenmann's doughnuts known to us as pokey donuts, which I know, gross already. But so for his bachelor party I wanted to make him a cake featuring his other favorite food, chocolate bundt cake (no he's not horribly fat, the bastard) "iced" with these doughnuts. I imagined a scenario where I'd have this awesomely weird textured cake and really '50s-looking architectural elements created by poky donut holes on toothpicks. Alas, as happens to many of my grand-yet-untested baking plans, things did not go as I'd hoped.
Behold the pokey donut cake:


Side view:


Scatalogical, I know. All I can say is that I'm sorry.

[Daniel]

Hello, welcome, and sorry.. Really nice story and wonderful thought.. Sorry it didnt work out exactly as you planned.. But hey , cake is freaking cake.. Trough some icing on that Brooklyn and serve it when the stripper arrives.. No one will notice!

Edited by Daniel, 29 January 2008 - 06:06 PM.

[rooftop1000]

Ahhhh the rabbit turd donuts .... love them



tracey

[Kouign Aman]

One perfectly fried egg....


The munchkin asked for green eggs and ham for dinner tonight. Since we didnt have ham, she settled for salami, but decreed it must be red instead. Food dye is a blessing and a curse.
Her father and I delayed our dinner for obvious reasons.

[phatj]

Good God that's nightmare fuel. Nice work.

[heidih]

One perfectly fried egg....


The munchkin asked for green eggs and ham for dinner tonight. Since we didnt have ham, she settled for salami, but decreed it must be red instead.  Food dye is a blessing and a curse.
Her father and I delayed our dinner for obvious reasons.

Lovely colors. It is always heart warming to hear of parents willing to go the extra mile for their young-ens.

[dockhl]

god. did she eat it?

[insomniac]

One perfectly fried egg....


The munchkin asked for green eggs and ham for dinner tonight. Since we didnt have ham, she settled for salami, but decreed it must be red instead.  Food dye is a blessing and a curse.
Her father and I delayed our dinner for obvious reasons.

Lovely colors. It is always heart warming to hear of parents willing to go the extra mile for their young-ens.

that dish of food has got to glow in the dark! ...I am imagining a blue drink just off camera

[Kouign Aman]

god. did she eat it? 

Yes.

that dish of food has got to glow in the dark! ...I am imagining a blue drink just off camera 

Close! It was bright orange (mango juice).

[Beebs]

Wow. That kinda hurts my eyes.

[Kouign Aman]

This was very good. It even looked ok on the plates. The fried sage leaves looked like leaves.
Photographed, it looks like I was serving giant planaria or leeches.
After seeing the photo, my husband termed dinner "tortilleechi".

[OnigiriFB]

*rofl* this has to be my all time favorite thread of all time for ANY boards I'm on. "torilleechi" *lol beating fist on leg while tears are threatening to fall out of my eyes*

[gfron1]

Either we've weeded out all of the bad cooks, or this topic is due for a bump!

[jumanggy]

No, no, there's no such thing as a bad cook! Just bad recipes!
Let me divert a little traffic to this blog post:
http://thursdaynight...deen-casserole/
If the last few words of that URL shows up, you'll know what you're in for The picture of the unbaked casserole before the crispy cheese conceals it is particularly disturbing. I like her description of the meal, too.

Oh my God! Giant planaria!!! Hahahaha!!

Edited by jumanggy, 24 July 2008 - 09:39 PM.

[purplewiz]

The good news: peanut sauces almost always taste wonderful.

The bad news: peanut sauces tend to make otherwise delicious dishes look like a present your neighbor's dog left in your front lawn.



Accompanied by frizzled cabbage in a mustard sauce that didn't do anything to enhance the appearance of said cabbage, and you end up with a picture worthy of this thread.

(Those are grilled chicken strips under the peanut sauce. And everything tasted wonderful. It just didn't looks so good.)

Marcia.

[sazji]

Cake Wrecks blog.

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

:)

[kbjesq]

Cake Wrecks blog. 

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

:)

Sandra Lee's "kwanzaa cake" takes the cake for me in that department.

[Quiltguy]

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Sandra Lee's "kwanzaa cake" takes the cake for me in that department.

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Oh yeah, and that was the "Professional beauty shot" on the Kwanzaa cake.

[Smithy]

Sandra Lee's  "kwanzaa cake" takes the cake for me in that department.

Oh yeah, and that was the "Professional beauty shot" on the Kwanzaa cake.

Reading the ingredient list made it even more revolting. I wouldn't have thought that possible.

That cakewrecks blog is one of the most jaw-droppingly appalling and hilarious web sites I've ever seen. Thanks for the link, sazji, and thanks for bumping this topic, gfron!

[C. sapidus]

This looks like something that came out of a dog – I’m not sure which end. It tasted delicious, despite its resemblance to partially digested kibble.

Accompanied by a lovely salad.

[nakji]

What was it? It looks like keema curry. I empathize. I'd been trying to get a shot of mapo dofu that didn't look like dog sick, but gave up due to the apparent impossibility of the task.

[C. sapidus]

What was it?

An improvised breakfast - creamy scrambled eggs with semi-homemade Mussaman curry paste. Scrambling the sauce and eggs together seemed like a good idea at the time, but it was difficult to enjoy the dish without imagining the bilious odor of partly-digested dog food.

The sauce actually tasted rich, spicy, aromatic, and completely free of bile. I started with a can of Mussaman curry paste, jazzed it up with galangal, garlic, lemongrass, chiles, cumin, and cardamom, and then fried the curry paste in cracked coconut cream.

Note to self: next time make the sauce, scramble the eggs, and then pour the sauce over the eggs.

[nakji]

Ah, well with that description, it must have tasted fabulous!

Note to self: next time make the sauce, scramble the eggs, and then pour the sauce over the eggs.

And...you could fry up some rice with chinese sausage or similar, use the eggs as an omelette to encase the rice, and top with curry sauce. It would be fusion Japanase-Thai omuraisu.

[C. sapidus]

And...you could fry up some rice with chinese sausage or similar, use the eggs as an omelette to encase the rice, and top with curry sauce. It would be fusion Japanase-Thai omuraisu.

Don't be surprised to see this on the breakfast thread.

[Kouign Aman]

Bruce,
that looks truely nasty. The cat hacked up a gutfull of kibble last night, and its a dead ringer (barring the sliced peppers) for the photo. Good work!

[gfron1]

Puffed wild rice that went into a savory granola...it was much tastier than it looks.

[jumanggy]

Puffed wild rice that went into a savory granola...it was much tastier than it looks.

safe, inexpensive prop for zombie movie.
I just wanted to type it out here just in case some poor movie producer was looking for solutions via Google. :)
I am just hoping it looks less vermiform when mixed in with the rest of the granola...

Edited by jumanggy, 26 October 2008 - 10:08 PM.

[sazji]

Wow...one dish that looked like it came out of a dog, and another that looks like it came out of a dead dog! :)

Puffed wild rice that went into a savory granola...it was much tastier than it looks.

[nonblonde007]

Wow! That looks Fantastic..........I am so steeling this idea for the halloween party. ( I think I will sneak in a few of the "real" worms if I can find them) *Just getting the visual, giggle*