Culinary Regrets

i love love love fudge, ambiepam, and have never ever ever had luck making it! my grandmother used to make it like it was easy as pie! (ha!) but once i tried to make a recipe at christmas that included velveeta cheese (i once knew a girl named velveeta, but that is another story). anyway, i do not know what i did but it never hardened and tasted like bad soap. it was cold out, so i set the pan out on my back porch thinking that the cool weather would help it harden. then i began to receive my relatives for christmas dinner at the front door. but oh, no, then my aunt decided to let herself in the back door. she came through to the living room, holding the fudge pan, and asking why the pan of dirt was on the back porch! eeek! since then, i have tried another fudge recipe with the marshmallow creme. it tasted good, and hardened, but did it set nicely, so that i could slice it up and take it out of the pan, and display nice squares? no, it did not. i give up.

I actually think broccoli and cheddar soup is tasty, in small doses. But I understand the problem of making too much of anything, especially before leaving on a trip--I seem to make that mistake often! i think it's because, in the back of my mind, I think that then we will have something to eat when we get home, but of course by then it's old, even if not technically spoiled, and no one wants to eat it (especially me). Now what I do if I have made that mistake and it isn't garbage day is to put it in a container in the freezer, so at least it won't smell or go moldy.

biggest mistake I ever made was making veggie soup with TOO many carrots in it. I froze it, but ended up throwing out the "bricks" of frozen veggie soup - just didn't taste right. There are probably a lot of things I'd like, but they just sound "wrong" and broccoli soup is one of those things...

First of all, the next time you have a liquified culinary regret, don't put it in the garbage. Flush it down the toilet. It can handle everything else we give it, I guarantee it would handle your broccoli and cheddar soup! LOL However, why did you regret it? Was it taste? Or was it that it just didn't satisfy your craving at the time? I'd have frozen it for a future effort. As for culinary regrets - I've too many to mention....from burnt offerings to unleavened bread (in other words, things I didn't plan on). Now, I made an impromptu broccoli soup one day that I was very happy with. After my daughter cooked broccoli the way she likes to eat it (VERY well done), I took the broccoli water she had left over that was full of little pieces of broccoli that had fallen off the broccoli she had cooked and added some chicken broth and milk and then thickened it. I also added shredded cheese. I was very happy with the results and got to use all the nutrients that leeched out of what she had cooked.

Mine actually had to do with cheese as well! I've made macaroni and cheese lately, home made, and while others in my family loved it, I didn't. I guess I was my own worse critic then. I made it with velveeta once, and then the other times with just cheese. I think next time I may use cream cheese with the regular cheese to make it creamier. I also am not a big fan of the taste of velveeta! lol! I try not to make big pots of anything to avoid wasting, especially if I'm not sure I'll like it!

Not sure what you used for a recipe, but cheddar broccoli soup is one of my favorites. How did you make it? Every so often I do something that comes out really horrible,that I can't think of what to add to 'fix' it. Usually I put a plastic grocery bag (sack) into a bowl, pour it in and plop it in the freezer. Once it's frozen, I tie the bag and put the bowl away. On trash day I get rid of it. My most recent fiasco was trying to do baked beans and smoked sausage in the crockpot for a simple supper. The sausage was so salty that it was just awful. The baked beans tasted like sweetened salt pellets.

Oh, I have many many. I can remember one really well though, as it seemed to go on and on forever. I was a Navy wife when I married the first time and hubby did not want me to work. We had bills, I cooked frugally. I had this recipe, sort of, that I had made up, based on a dish served at the Mexican restaurant I had worked at. I called it Mexican chicken soup. It was good. My mistakes #1, Being very frugal, I bough a package of turkey tails. . . yep, never seen em anywhere since. That is the absolutely fattest part of the turkey. Sooooooooo greasy and not much meat. #2, trying to make sure that I did not waste it, I added rice to soak up the fat, a lot of rice. I had a ton of fat, greasy, well seasoned turkey flavored rice that we ate for at least a week. As a single person you know you could go get a can or frozen portion of broccoli cheddar soup if you really wanted some. Save a lot of money and work.

Meatballs stuffed with stove top stuffing. A friend suggest them to me so I bought two pounds of hamburger and made them...they were nasty. The dog wouldn't even eat them. I don't know what went wrong but I never tried to make them again...my friend still loves them!

I love broccoli cheese soup! What happened? The worst thing I ever tried wasn't what I made...it was recently something I bought...in a big pack. It is a peach apricot green tea that will roll the stomach of the toughest! I bought a 24 pack and I have 23 I have to figure out what to do with now

I can't remember the last time I cooked something that was inedible. I'm surprised you dumped the soup in the garbage instead of flushing it down the toilet as many people do. Then again, if there was any kind of oil in it, that wouldn't have been a good thing to do.

that is one good soup.Why did you not put it in smaller containers and freeze it.This way it keeps for much longer,and you do not regret making it!I can't say that I ever regretted making something.Even when I try new recipes,I only cook something that I know I'll like.

hi dear Ambie I love broccoli and cheddar resp. cheese in general so I would really have liked to try this soup. Never had it so I am going to look for a recipe to make it. Not much of culinary regrets over here, not much burnt stuff either I have to say. I am a fair cook so its not outstanding but edible most of the time, LOL. Remember baking cookies once close to Christmas. I didnt have kitchen scales back then and tried to wing the amount of honey I put into the dough. Worked fine first but then when the cookies were in the oven the honey trickled all over the baking pan. I had used baking paper of course so it only meant scraping the honey off the paper, no big deal. LOL LOL LOL

Hello AmbiePam Broccol and Cheddar soup is delicious!! It sounds like you are quite fortunate in that you can at least cook with success. Sure, you may have had a change of heart after it was made, but at least you can cook with the general idea that whatever you prepare will be good. I, have the opposite 'success.' Nearly every thing I try to make is a culinary regret. With the exception of Peanut Butter and Jelly samiches, I am perfectly dreadful in the kitchen. Daily, I will have grand ideas for delicious dishes. Despite secretly knowing the final outcome, I will try my hand at making a dish, only to be disappointed at the outcome and wonder why I even tried. I guess the one good thing about being a constant culinary catastrophe is that every once in awhile I am surprised when something actually turns out to be good. Fortunately, this tends to only happen when I am baking.

Making too much cream of mushroom soup. I finished it alone because no one wanted any. :P

maybe you could of frozen it or offered some friends over for some hot soup

SOme times the smell or could be I cooked what others wanted that I didnt want but had to eat any how. WHy not throw it down th e toilet put extra water in it and pour and flush amounts at a time

i often go through the grocery store and think, man, that looks good. then i think, what if i don't like it? i am stuck with it all. so then i never buy it!

Experimenting with cooking is often delightful.But when it comes to tastes of the palate it is frustrating when an item of a recipe is spoiled on account of foul cooking. Preparing food items to the needs of the culinary likes is really an art.

Not sure if you regretted that you made so much, or that you didn't like it at all. If I make too much, I often just freeze half of it. I love cheese and broccoli soup! You could have sent it to me! LOL One "culinary regret" that I had was a recipe for a cole slaw that was mustard based and had celery seeds in it. The description sounded delicious and I couldn't wait to make it. Big mistake! yuck! I didn't even attempt to let anyone else at home try it. Very disappointed to have to purchase all that food and then have to dump it! And cabbage is bad in the garbage too. Had to bring that bag directly out to the dumpster. Fortunately, I don't do that sort of thing too often!

I would have to say when i made quinoa it was my biggest culinary regret. I dont know but I just stand the texture of it. To me it tastes like dirt! I actually had to throw it away it grossed me out so much.