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[Carrot Top]

It's milt again.

[Megan Blocker]

It's milt again.

Aaaah, back to the dirty stuff. Good times.

[bilrus]

I'll play:

What is up with the shiny ring of grease around the outside of the bowl and the strangely off colors? And that wasn't just the picture - it really did look like that.


Does turmeric ever make anything more appealing?


No - this turkey really isn't made out of rubber.



Somehow the red food coloring works at Tandoori restaurants - not so much at home. Maybe on an Easter egg.

Edited by bilrus, 13 October 2005 - 09:37 AM.

[inny]

It's milt again.

Aaaah, back to the dirty stuff. Good times.

Careful what you wish for... I still have wonton wrappers and I'm not afraid to use them

[Pumpkin Lover]

Oh bilrus, I think your shrimp look great! How'd it taste?

[sabg]

i think the rice cake in chile looks de-lish

ooh, I am going to love this thread!!
I have so much to contribute!  

a roasted beet, arugula and blue cheese salad
how can beets combined with anything be made to look nice? it doesn't help that it is slightly out of focus...


Another delicious dish, that just looks bad. Why is it so shiny?
Korean tteok (rice cakes) in kochujang (chile miso) sauce


miso soup with daikon, aburage (tofu pockets) and white miso, I tried to brighten it up with a dollop of yuzu-koshou (green chile and yuzu rind paste) but it still looks very pale


another miso soup, this time with sweet potato and niboshi (dried baby sardines), it really tastes good but it just looks like dead fish floating in the soup...


I think I will stop for now...

[sabg]

this is THE funniest..i have to learn how to post photos also..thanks for making me laugh out loud

[popover]

This is something I made a while back - tasted great, but doesn't look too good.  It's essentially coq au vin, made with riesling.  Yummy, but all one color and photographed REALLY badly.

Thankyou for making me laugh out loud! It certainly is an eye opener! Come on you have to admit it looks a little ewwy.

[popover]

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.

 

Its hard to describe what the first dish looks like Spinach with congeeled shiny onions and occasional pasta.
You made my afternoon!

Edited by popover, 13 October 2005 - 03:59 PM.

[Megan Blocker]

Thankyou for making me laugh out loud!      It certainly is an eye opener!    Come on you have to admit it looks a little ewwy.

Indeed I do! Which is why, of course, I posted it here!

[bilrus]

Oh bilrus, I think your shrimp look great! How'd it taste?

Like it had too much turmeric.

[purplewiz]

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...

*sigh* This dinner is what happens when two different dinners you have planned crash head on with a project you're desperately trying to finish.

Yes, that's a pork chop. I had been planning to bake chicken breasts, so I'd mixed up a pretty standard coating for them: dijon mustard, dash of ground chipotle, dash of honey, and mayonnaise. But for some reason I defrosted pork chops. Not wanting to waste the coating, I slathered it on the pork chops and stuck them in the oven. Bad idea.

The coating crusted on top, then slid off the chop. The undercoating never really solidified because the pork is somewhat fattier than chicken. Thus we have a white pork chop.

The green stuff is zucchini alfredo. It's something I've made many times before - zucchini, shaved thin with a mandoline or vegetable peeler, blanched, shocked, drained very well. Make an alfredo sauce in the pan, mix in the parmesan well, right before service toss together and serve. I love the texture of the zucchini "noodles" and they balance the rich sauce nicely.

Except for some reason I didn't blanch the zucchini, I threw it in to the sauce raw. No, I don't know what I was thinking. The raw zucchini gave up all its liquid, the sauce split, the parmesan seized and stuck to the bottom of the pan, and you see the results.

About the only good thing I can say about this dinner is that it was not so bad it had to be thrown out and dinner eaten elsewhere. (That's my standard for a bad meal - yes, I've reached those depths before!) Other than the pork chop being a little overdone, it actually tasted reasonably good. But what a train wreck on the plate!

(At least my project is done!)

Marcia.
who posted the poached pears from dessert to the dinner thread because they looked and tasted spectacular. (and who can't spell, apparently.)

Edited by purplewiz, 13 October 2005 - 07:18 PM.

[Chris Amirault]

God, this thread pollutes the mind. Here, after days of preparation, is my version of cassoulet from the cook-off, a dish of which I am very proud -- which in this context looks like... well...

[tejon]

Well, I bet it tasted good, at least! By the way, we have the exact same bowls, curtosy of my FIL

[mizducky]

God, this thread pollutes the mind. Here, after days of preparation, is my version of cassoulet from the cook-off, a dish of which I am very proud -- which in this context looks like... well...

Y'know, looking at some of the other pictures people posted, I found myself thinking "gee, that doesn't look anywhere near as bad as that person fears it does." But this is the first photo I've seen in this thread that scares me almost as much as the one I posted.

However, I for one think rustic dishes are *supposed* to look rustic. And I'm willing to bet your cassoulet tasted just great. Unlike my disaster, which tasted pretty much the way it looked.

[Chris Amirault]

It was, indeed, delicious. And it tasted not at all like a shit-vomit roadkill stew.

[inny]

Except for some reason I didn't blanch the zucchini, I threw it in to the sauce raw. No, I don't know what I was thinking. The raw zucchini gave up all its liquid, the sauce split, the parmesan seized and stuck to the bottom of the pan, and you see the results.

Don't you just hate it when food and sauce conspire against you? Great story - thanks for the laugh!

[bilrus]

I don't think I even need to add any humorous one-liner to this one, do I?

Edited by bilrus, 14 October 2005 - 06:32 PM.

[dockhl]

I don't think I even need to add any humorous one-liner to this one, do I?

And the charred purple phalluses are.............??????

[petite tête de chou]

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And the charred purple phalluses are.............??????

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Oh my. Blue balls, er, potatoes, too?

[bilrus]

I don't think I even need to add any humorous one-liner to this one, do I?

And the charred purple phalluses are.............??????

Tasty?

[Carrot Top]

I've tried really hard not to respond to this, but now it appears it is neccesary.

Phalluses? (sp?)

No, no, no. Trust me, they are not.

Mostly I must say that that plate looks like something that my cat might do after eating a small bird, a bunch of dry catfood, and perhaps an acorn or two topped off with some grass from the yard.

As a matter of fact, she has done this sort of thing before, right in the middle of the floor, to prove her extreme dieting skills to me.

I guess that might be considered "Regrettable Foods, Secondhand Division". Sigh.

[Mooshmouse]

And it tasted not at all like a shit-vomit roadkill stew.

Chris, you've outdone yourself. This description coupled with your photo and Bill's kitty-barf-purple-Freudian extravaganza have given me my belly laugh of the day.

And Bill, I have little else to say except, "My. Oh my."

Grub, thank you everso for starting this thread. Whenever I find myself getting far too serious about life in general, all I have to do is scroll through these posts and it all disintegrates into silliness again.

[bilrus]

Mostly I must say that that plate looks like something that my cat might do after eating a small bird, a bunch of dry catfood, and perhaps an acorn or two topped off with some grass from the yard.

As a matter of fact, she has done this sort of thing before, right in the middle of the floor, to prove her extreme dieting skills to me.

I guess that might be considered "Regrettable Foods, Secondhand Division". Sigh.

Actually I was thinking only of the potatoes. I actually thought the steak and chimichurri looked good.

As a matter of fact the olive oil roasted blue fingerling potatoes with sea salt were very tasty too.

Now I'm offended.

My potatoes might look like I neutered a bunch of aliens, but my steak was good dammit.

Edited by bilrus, 16 October 2005 - 08:22 AM.

[Carrot Top]

Eh. The steak did look good, Bill. Too good to be in the photo on this thread.

Just trying to help you out here, guy. It was such a prize-winning photo other than that damn good-looking steak.

[inny]

<hands her Freudian Food Award to Bill>

You win, man. I can't compete with that. I didn't think they actually turned blue. I stand corrected

[bilrus]

It's funny - I was orinigally thinking more scatological when I posted the potatoes picture, but Freudian works too.

[snowangel]

Hmmm. Anyone hungry?



It looked no better plated. Although it was yummy. Any guesses as to what this mess was?

[monavano]

Hmmm.  Anyone hungry?



It looked no better plated.  Although it was yummy.  Any guesses as to what this mess was?

Stroganoff????

[schnitzel]

Any guesses as to what this mess was?

Pork braised with mango, lime & coconut?