What recipe have you tried, hated and wished you never wasted so much time making it?

[kevintheorangecarrot]

I have just tried a creamy garlic, chicken and mushroom sauce and I really wish I hadn't now. I consumed as much as I could as well as my DH, then thrown the rest in the bin (thank god for food waste recycling where I live!)

Crumpets! Chuff me, a huge sticky mass
I can make bread, chapatis, naan, no problem but crumpets, nightmare. A hideous lumpy solvite affair

@thesunhasgothishatontoday try Marions kitchen bao bun recipe. Delish and easy. I make it without the milk powder (need dairy free recipes).

Paul Hollywood's malt loaf. Nothing wrong with spending a quid on buying the soreen version!

Anna Jone's baked aloo gobi. I think it was the coconut oil that did for me. I find it revolting. At least now I know.

Another vote for hummus. Not worth the effort at all.

Homemade croissants. Greasy, soggy, took ages and used about £5 worth of butter. 100% not worth it.

Also choux buns (all huge and mishapen) brioche (slow prove ffs) and tarte tatin (with bloody rough puff)

There is a pattern here - I should probably stop trying to do any form of French baked goods... on the upside I am good at making Christmas cake and kid’s birthday cakes.

I am a dab hand at fresh pasta, hollandaise sauce and puff pastry but my first attempt at Belgian waffles tonight was shite.

I see someone's beaten me to croissants! Up until the wee small hours rolling out pastry, and spending an arm and a leg on butter, you could've stoated them off the wall! I stick with Tesco's now.

Another vote for ham in coke. It was ok but utterly unremarkable, and at least if I'd done it the usual way I could have made lovely soup.

I did a soda bread of Nadiya's once that was utterly inedible. God knows what it weighed. It was the second time I'd done it so no idea what went wrong. Straight in the outside bin.

lorettalemon the Australian Women's Weekly Indian Cookbook is brilliant. Simple, easy to follow recipes with easy to get ingredients. Really worth the money. (no Indian or takeaways of any sort within 60 miles of my house)

Home made hummus and home made mayonnaise. Both took ages, cost a fortune and weren't nice. Weirdly, I make an amazing falafel but I cannot master hummus and now just accept that I am buying it.

Also, Ottolenghi's mushroom lasagne. I thought it would be amazing as I love mushrooms but it was vile, vile, vile.

fucking fish cakes. They never work. They fall apart, don’t cook evenly, turn weirdly puffy. I’ve tried multiple recipes but they’re always a disaster.

Never again.

Am wondering what's going wrong with people's slow cooked ham/gammon in coke! 🤔 Proper coke, unsmoked gammon (boiled 5 mins to de-salt), then onion, star anise. 6 hours. (Then of course oven baked with a glaze).

Mine is delish!

My go-to fail is pumpkin soup. Home-grown pumpkin given by a friend. Should have realised it was Big and Woody (tho a proper one, not a Hallowe'en one).

Spent HOURS chopping, roasting, pureeing.Along with all sorts of other allegedly tasty ingredients.

Yuk. In the sink.

Jamie's posh lamb shepherds pie, you slowly cooked the lamb for about 12 hours before then shredded it, was the worse, the worse thing we've ever eaten - even my human dust bin DS refused to eat it!

I have had two Jamie cookbooks given, straight to charity shop. Never even tried a recipe as imo, I can cook far better than he ever will.

Jamie Oliver rabbit and olive pasta - tasted like a rancid Road Kill vile! Any slimming world 'fakeaway ' recipe all of which are vile and taste nothing like the real deal.

Chicken tikka masala. I LOVE it but honestly? The massive amount of time and effort that goes into just isn't worth it. It's really nice but it's not that far different to what I can buy ready or at least partially made. Now if I was making large amounts sure, it'd be worth it but for one family I'd rather buy a sauce or better yet, a takeaway.

Jamie Olivers bloody get ahead gravy 🤮. Never again!

Something called 'Tornado Chicken', from Tastemade on Facebook. (Essentially chicken in potato with a coating)
Got really excited to make them with DP, put a load of effort into them and they came out tasteless and bland.
Maybe we did it wrong.

I make hummus and mayo and both are much better than shop bought. I also make Nigellas ham in coke. Not keen on the smell of it cooking, but its delicious to eat. Always a hit here.

@Peony99
You can spray/ drizzle the aubergine slices with oil and do them in the oven instead of trying them.

I’m going Thai too- I made it all from scratch, mashed, pestled, toasted and blended every single Thai ingredient from the Thai end of the oriental market. Four hours of cooking later and it was just awful.... it was watery, tasteless, very spicy without tasting of anything - randomly - and sour. I balanced until I was blue in the face but my god I am never ever trying it again.

Conversely I made a lovely laksa which is coconut milk and a bunch of Thai (ready mashed) spices

Every curry I’ve ever made
Victoria sponge

Peony99 I regularly make Aubergine Parmigna .Wanted ti avoid breadcrumbs and frying.

So just sliced and baked aubergines on a tray in oven for about 10 minutes, then layered with sauce and cheese as usual.Still really nice.