Yucky food?
Posted by SnowQueen690 on Feb 12, 2010 · Member since Jun 2005 · 1569 posts
I have a few things in my fridge that I tried to make and they came out yucky! I am trying to cook more vegan and more healthy but some stuff is just un-edible!
I made the "melty cheese" recipe for example but I didn't have pimentos so I used green olives instead. YUK! And the whole wheat noodles I mixed the sauce with tasted like it had sand in it. Yuk!
And there is some rice I bombed on as well.
Right now they are just sitting in the fridge and I keep making new food and I am kind of waiting for that stuff to go bad so I have an excuse to throw it out.
What do you all do with food that just comes out nasty?
ewww ya that would make the melty cheese friggin sick! lol... for melty cheese i find you have to use soy milk too for it to taste good... i dunno why
if it is nasty throw it away! i know you probably feel bad about it but it's gross why should you eat it!?!?
I wouldn't put olives in my food to begin with.
Yeah, just throw it out. or compost it.
Chalk it up to experience, SQ, and toss it. It happens to all of us. I know, we were raised never to waste food, but what I usually do when something bombs is stop and think how much of what went into it. Like, a cup of rice, and a carrot, and this or that. Usually the price you spent works out to pennies, unless there was some abstruse ingredient in there like white truffles. (If you pay a dollar for two pounds of carrots, how much does one carrot work out to? A few cents).
I remember making something this summer that simply did. not. work. I was trying to eat it for lunch one day and DH started to laugh. I asked him why, and he said I would take a forkful, swallow, sigh and shake my head. Dip into my salad for a few bites. Go back to the offending dish, swallow, sigh. He finally took my hand and said, "Don't torture yourself. Toss it."
I did.
I got all these bags of walnuts on sale super cheap so i was trying to make a walnut-sausage type dish....It was gross because I soaked the walnuts in Braggs then also added salt...it just tasted like reallllly salty soy sauce, I forced some down, added some to a lasagne, which kinda masked it...but couldn't eat it mixed in with my tofu scramble.......oh and I've shared this in the seitan thread but I've made seitan with gluten flour before and it basically resembeled a few wads of pure fat, (like would be trimmed off of meat...I didn't make any seitan for awhile after that)
Right now they are just sitting in the fridge and I keep making new food and I am kind of waiting for that stuff to go bad so I have an excuse to throw it out.
Honestly, that's probably what I'd do too. If I had a garden, I'd compost.
I'm guilty of putting failed food back in my fridge and waiting for it to go bad before I toss it. But yeah, most of the time I'll just throw something ineble out and say it was worth the money to learn what not to do last time. Like, I have learned that I should never try making seitan again, since all three times have turned out terribly. Same with rice before I got my rice cooker. Sometimes it just takes failures to make beautiful nommies.
I don't wait for failures to spoil in my fridge because that means you have mould or bacteria in your fridge. Bacteria don't stay where they are, they spread to other fudz. No thanks. Toss it.
Sometimes I can rearrange failed endeavors so that they're mediocre, but that's the best I can ever do. I feel bad about tossing it, but waiting for it to spoil is just the same... except when those failed dishes will NEVER spoil because they're mutant yucky food, and it sits there for weeks until I get the ovaries to toss it anyway.
I try to save it or add it to other dishes in such small amounts it's not really noticeable. :P I grew up with my father ranting about 'post-war Britain' (though he was a generation late for that!) so I've kind of turned out a miser to the core.
We try to give our inedibles to the animals. Our neighborhood birds and squirrels are usually quite appreciative - especially when it's snowy. If you have a neighbor with a dog, the dog might appreciate it, too.
If it's doggy safe, he gets things I'm not so fond of. Actually, he gets mostly everything I eat anyway!