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[dockhl]

I reported on my really yummy Bisteces Rancheros (from Braising with Molly) Here.

But, here is the photo:



OK.  so the quality of the photo, and the sheen doesn't help.  But, this looked like one mighty unappealing dish.  Peter and a couple of this buddies (they are all 9) took one look at it and tried to decide whether it looked like worms on top, dead fish that had gone bad.

Most braised meat dishes just don't photo well.  At least at my house.

Thank you, Susan. I am sure it was delicious.......

(ACK ) (DEAD FISH)

I can't wait until my birhtday when I get my new digital camera ! Y'all are in for some eye-poppin' goodies !

[Jensen]

Anyone for baby shit?

[Abra]

For some reason I never looked into this thread before, and when I did, yegads. Dog barf everywhere! And then I thought "wait, don't I myself have a couple of pictures that are even more disgusting- looking?" And the answer is:



That was an attempt to have very little pasta with lots of greens. Would it surprise you to know that I actually ate that stuff? And then there was the maitake frittata:



The veggies look ok, but if mushrooms had brains, those maitakes would be them. Double Dog Barf. But delicious.

[dockhl]

My God I LOVE this thread !

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse (kinda like page-turning in the Stephen King book,Misery), it does........

[torakris]

here's one from last night,
I call this 'Blackened Turds on a Plate'



it really was deep fried lotus root topped with seasoned fish paste and a sheet of nori (laver seaweed) and it was really good.

[dockhl]

here's one from last night,
I call this 'Blackened Turds on a Plate'

Kris~
This appropriately named entree gets a prize !

K

[handmc]

here's one from last night,
I call this 'Blackened Turds on a Plate'



it really was deep fried lotus root topped with seasoned fish paste and a sheet of nori (laver seaweed) and it was really good.

I imagine knowing you are about to start a week long blog the next day must have been the reason. Get the train wrecks out of the way before it counts!

[torakris]

I imagine knowing you are about to start a week long blog the next day must have been the reason. Get the train wrecks out of the way before it counts!

let's hope none of these show up in my blog....

[torakris]

you will never see a picture like this in the dinner thread...


only in Kristin's blog

[Shalmanese]

I dunno, it has kind of a seductive, come hither look to it. It seems to be using it's wingtips to cover just about where it's nipples would be if it was human.

A tied up naked chick baring it's breasts to me, whats not to like?

[Carrot Top]

I can see what you mean, Shalmanese.

My own particular focus is aiming towards whatever that thing is popping out from the top.

What is that?

Does it move?

[saskanuck]

Dear god, you guys are making me laugh until I cry here in my cubicle.

Yow, those are some bad looking meals. I've got to remember to do this when I end up making something that looks awful.

Years ago before there were digital cameras, I made something called lentil stew. It looked like the product of something with very poor digestion, and I made my ex-husband go out under cover of darkness and bury it in the garden. There were no fences yet because we lived in a new subdivision, and I didn't want any of my neighbours to know what we were doing.

Too bad I don't have a pic of it, or maybe that's a good thing.

[handmc]

you will never see a picture like this in the dinner thread...


only in Kristin's blog

Tonight's menu..............Chick from a snuff film.

[Smithy]

Dear god, you guys are making me laugh until I cry here in my cubicle.

Yow, those are some bad looking meals.  I've got to remember to do this when I end up making something that looks awful.

Years ago before there were digital cameras, I made something called lentil stew.  It looked like the product of something with very poor digestion, and I made my ex-husband go out under cover of darkness and bury it in the garden.  There were no fences yet because we lived in a new subdivision, and I didn't want any of my neighbours to know what we were doing. 

Too bad I don't have a pic of it, or maybe that's a good thing. 

Something I wish I had a photo of is a friend's mother's first attempt at bread. This was waaay back in the early years of her marriage, when the couple had little money. I don't know what went wrong with the bread dough, but it squatted sullenly in the bowl and refused to rise. The Mrs. finally despaired and, since they had little money and she didn't want to show the wasted food to her new husband, buried the evidence in the backyard.

Later that afternoon, hubby came home from work and walked in with a puzzled expression. "Honey," he said, "there's the biggest mushroom I've ever seen coming up in our yard. I swear it wasn't there this morning." They went to look together, and there was the blob of dough, finally rising from under the earth.

[inny]

I can't believe I'm doing this...

This is actually a very tasty oxtail stew. My hand slipped when I was adding the red wine... hence the pinkish sheen.



These are steamed wontons stuffed with oxtail, leeks, shrooms, and bleu cheese. They looked alright until I added the balsamic vinegar/stock reduction. It resulted in food porn, and not the good kind



I'm ashamed... so ashamed...

[mrbigjas]

inny, i don't mean to start an argument or nothin, but i don't see anything wrong with that stew. the dumplings, yeah, they're a little sketchy, but that stew? looks great.

[inny]

inny, i don't mean to start an argument or nothin, but i don't see anything wrong with that stew.  the dumplings, yeah, they're a little sketchy, but that stew?  looks great.

I guess the pinkness didn't really come through as strongly in the photo. Trust me, in person... pepto mixed with dog food

[Megan Blocker]

inny, i don't mean to start an argument or nothin, but i don't see anything wrong with that stew.  the dumplings, yeah, they're a little sketchy, but that stew?  looks great.

I guess the pinkness didn't really come through as strongly in the photo. Trust me, in person... pepto mixed with dog food

Wow. Those dumplings are...freudian. There's just no other word for it.

Edited by Megan Blocker, 07 October 2005 - 10:13 PM.

[Grub]

I've been on a tear, lately...

First off, some salmon grilled over coals that were far too hot. I learned (from egullet, of course) that the white guck that is excreted from the salmon is a surefire sign that the salmon is overcooked -- but in this case, the salmon was still uncooked and red on the inside. Gah.







Next up, I was trying to make some cheese sauce... Just a basic bechamel sauce, with some cheese melted into it. But it got all chunky and 'orrible, so I figured I'd run it through the shieve. It instantly harded up and stuck to the shieve -- I didn't even think to take a picture of it until after I'd mamanged to remove most of it. You shoulda seen what it looked like earlier...






How ya like yer burger buns? Extra sooty? Great! I feel like Dustin Hoffman in Rainman: "I'm an EXCELLENT griller."






After another attempt on the buns, I got the burger meal together. But this picture is just such a complete and utter mess... The fries were done beforehand, in a wok, with some garlic salt and spice rub to make em nice and zesty -- that'd be the blackened specks, cause it was all burnt. Then they were left in the oven so as to be nice and soggy and horrible by the time the burgers were done. Semi-melted cheddar cheese just doesn't look good in a picture, either.

[amccomb]

I don't have a picture, but I tried making a blue cheese foam to top a grilled lamb chop - my husband couldn't even eat it because he said it looked like someone spat on the lamb chop! Ha!

[dockhl]

Gawd, I love this thread

[M.X.Hassett]

How ya like yer burger buns? Extra sooty? Great! I feel like Dustin Hoffman in Rainman: "I'm an EXCELLENT griller."

Happens to me all the time

[inny]

Grub - you mean burger buns aren't supposed to look like that? Trust me, they look better than a lot of my attempts. But, then again, I do not seem to possess the proper genetic chromosome necessary for successful grilling

Even though the fries are a little, um, speckled, I'd eat that burger. Then again, I should probably be posting that in the PMS thread That actually looks very good right now.

But the salmon... oh my. Gotta know what you did with it - was it fixable? Fed to the dogs? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Angeline7270]

I ran across this website a few years ago, and this thread made me think of it....Gallery of Regrettable Foods

[Grub]

...Even though the fries are a little, um, speckled, I'd eat that burger. Then again, I should probably be posting that in the PMS thread    That actually looks very good right now.

But the salmon... oh my. Gotta know what you did with it - was it fixable? Fed to the dogs? Inquiring minds want to know.

The burgers? I was planning on doing some "squealers" -- ie., some minced bacon added into the beef, but was left with no bacon. So I opted for some blue cheese instead (as well as a bit of ground cumin and coriander -- I saw Jamie Oliver make an "Elvis" burger that way, hah!). Well, blue cheese is just way too heavy for red meat in my opinion -- I've had fillet mignons with blue cheese before, and I should know better. That burger sat like a lead brick in my stomach. Uh. Good eats at the moment, mind you. But uh, heavy.

The salmon was kind of "fixable": Admit your mistakes, beg forgiveness (and cover the worst of the icky stuff up -- if yer serving it with pasta and a white sauce, your prospects are all the much better ) and hope for the best -- if you have a reasonably forgiving audience, you're okay... But uh, not a proud moment, that...

[jennahan]

I am so glad that this thread exits...does much for my self confidence. I occasionally look through the latest contributions to the dinner thread and leave both salivating and deflated about most of my normal at-home dinner attemts. I've never even considered posting what I've cooked because, although it might taste fab, never has the visual appeal that all of those candidates for food-magazine spreads have.

Actually, although you all might call your posts "regrettable", most still are quite appealing looking and sounding. I think I need to figure out how to upload pictures to show you what regrettable truly looks like!

[purplewiz]

Don't Ask. Just....Don't Ask.



Marcia.

[M.X.Hassett]

Gawd, I love this thread

 

ditto
at least you feel more like Keller after learning from your mistakes. One of the best ways of learning may be to screw up and look at your errors and the situation then learn from them instead of blaming the recipe or source. Just my 2#.

[inny]

Don't Ask. Just....Don't Ask.



Marcia.

I have to ask... I think I recognize the pork (?) chop, but what is the green stuff? And how is the chop white?

Gawd, I love this thread

 

ditto
at least you feel more like Keller after learning from your mistakes. One of the best ways of learning may be to screw up and look at your errors and the situation then learn from them instead of blaming the recipe or source. Just my 2#.

I'll ditto that ditto. That's how I learned to cook when I was a kid, much to my mother's shagrin. I wish I had a photo of the 'there is such a thing as too much tumeric' lesson. That mac and cheese looked positively radioactive

[Megan Blocker]

Don't Ask. Just....Don't Ask.



Marcia.

I have to ask... I think I recognize the pork (?) chop, but what is the green stuff? And how is the chop white?

The green stuff looks like shaved cucumber to me...am I right? And it looks like whatever the pork chop was coated in somehow stuck to the pan? Hmmm...