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Dinner II: The Gallery of Regrettable Foods (Part 1)

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Pizza...with a slight char on the tomato sauce?

It is a Sicilian Focaccia (sfincione) which is actually supposed to be THICKER than a focaccia. :hmmm: I am not sure what went wrong but it tasted like cardboard...

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this is the wonderful Japanese delicacy of ika no shiokara, often translated into English as squid fermented in its own guts...

My FIL made this version, it is actually much better tasting than it sounds or looks. :biggrin:

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Must...not.. open ....thread before breakfast. I just want to barf now.

I nominate Mizducky's "plotz on a plate" and Torakris' "guts in broth" for the Barf Award, for excellence in the portrayal of food horrors!

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Can we vote for the nastiest looking dish? I hope this is not going to hurt your feelings, Kristin :smile:, but THIS looks like some fat white worms floating in... well, I don't want to even think about it. And I am not squeamish about food!

Honestly, as horrible as some of these meals appear, I think a great deal of the yuck factor is due to a lack of photography skills rather than bad cooking!  Too much flash, glare, bad composition, and in particular, a lack of understanding of White Balance don't exactly help very much!  I would recommend that those of you with digital cameras take an afternoon (or three) learning about your cameras and trying different things with them.  In particular, learn about the different types of flash (slow-sync flash, for example, uses a slow shutter speed and "less" flash, which allows more ambient light to creep in), and White Balance (which can either be set in-camera, or altered using Photoshop or with your camera's editing software), which has a HUGE impact on the colors of your photographs. 

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Austin, can you share more advice? But, not to sound party poopy-ish (this IS, after all, the fun thread - who can take the worst food photo ever :biggrin:), we can talk in the food photography thread. Your professional expertise will be much appreciated!

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Carrot Top

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this is the wonderful Japanese delicacy of ika no shiokara, often translated into English as squid fermented in its own guts...

My FIL made this version, it is actually much better tasting than it sounds or looks. :biggrin:

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Isn't this the traditional dish served in a Kabuki production when one character has to kill off another? :smile::sad:

I think there is something about the uh. . .vitality. . . of Japanese food that definitely gives it an edge in this thread. :biggrin:

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Jinmyo

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Very visceral.

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AmyDaniel

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I am not even sure what this one was anymore....not a good sign...

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*blush*

I remember this from one of your blogs, Kristin! It's zosui!

Those kimchi nabe posts inspired me to try to make it myself. My sister and I love kimchi nabe, and I've made it quite a few times. Now that the cold weather's settling in, I'll probably make it again soon. I'll post pictures, pretty and ugly. :biggrin:

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torakris

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Wow! You have a better memory than I do! :huh:

I think I may have to stop posting my bad pictures of Japanese food or people may be scared off of it forever....

Kristin Wagner, aka "torakris"

 

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Carrot Top

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Oh no. :shock: Please don't, Kristin! Our lives would be made immeasureably smaller by the loss.

I've actually been hungrier for Japanese food *now* than I have been in some time. I like those little fishes all over the place. They really do have a sort of artistic merit all on their own.

Now I do have to admit that each time I see a food photo with a fish in it posted *elsewhere* that has any sort of liveliness to it, my immediate thought is: "Why didn't they post that in the Regrettable Foods thread?" :biggrin: It's taken all my willpower to not PM these people with "invitations to join". :huh:

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*Deborah*, you really think it looks tasty? Oh no, then I have failed miserably in this thread! :wacko: It's sweet azuki porridge with some glass noodles... tastes fine but it definitely looks 'orrible in real life.

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*Deborah*, you really think it looks tasty?  Oh no, then I have failed miserably in this thread! :wacko:  It's sweet azuki porridge with some glass noodles... tastes fine but it definitely looks 'orrible in real life.

I find it really challenging to make cooked bean dishes look pretty, even when they taste great. Some of the best refried beans I've ever tasted have looked like, well, the contents of some baby's diaper. :shock: But raw beans do look quite pretty--especially adzuki, with their distinctive shape and little stripe.

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Ate the following sometime last night in Los Angeles. I wasn't sure whether to post it here, or the thread about places you've dined recently, or the one about blurry low-quality camera-phone photos ... :smile:

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I wanted to guess it was Tofurkey--something I've heard of but never have seen. Just as it looks in life, walking around on the Tofurkey farm.

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Chufi

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Special K porridge  :wub: --- doesn't look too bad! How'd it taste?

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not too bad.. but I doubt anyone would agree.. think thick grainy, slightly sour buttermilk..

I only made it out of nostalgia, because I was thinking so much about my grandmother lately.. she loved this stuff...

details here in the dutch cooking thread

isn't it an american custom as well, for moms to write their children's initials in the cereal?

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misstenacity

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The funny thing about those enchiladas is that they are one of the best meals I've cooked at home in a long time. Very flavorful and spicy. Too bad they look like what Dr Seuss might have purged after eating green eggs & ham....

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My usual breakfast, this time in a chocolate incarnation. VERY yummy.

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....and a pizza that while not at all inedible, can't help but look suspicious.

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Andrea

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Whoa. Andrea. :blink:

Your photos, particularly the first and second ones, have taken us to an all-new high... or low, such as the case may be.

Joie Alvaro Kent

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