Worst Raw Food Recipe?

[rawpriestess]

Hi, what is the worst raw food thing you ever made/ate?

I made some muffins today, that were unbelievably terrible, I'm not even sure what I did, they were sweet, just hard as rocks, I dehydrated them, so they were supposed to be warm, but they were so bad, I gave them to the dog. (POOR DOG)

[rawpriestess]

Come ON!!!

I KNOW I'M NOT THE ONLY CHEF OUT HERE.

I know that there must be at least one of you who has made a terrible dish,
but I'll be brave and list a few really bad concoctions, that I had to toss.

mac and cheese with turmeric, not my recipe, but was still bad

almond pulp cookies, I called them almost poop ookies-they were so bad

Burger buns with buckwheat --I called them ickwheat buns

Sesame seed bread - just ick, no more description needed

spelt tortillas - no flavor, basically wall paper paste, once I re-did them with more seasonings, they were great

carob milkshake for my grandkids, I added too much carob, and it was bitter, once I added more dates it was fine, but you should have seen their cute little faces, expecting a chocolate milkshake, and getting a carob-bitter shake. LOL

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Okay now for some of my friends's concoctions
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stevia/carob/pudding -- my friend added too much stevia, it was bitter and she knew it needed sweetener, so she added more stevia, which made it even more bitter, by the time I tasted it, it was really horrible
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My friend made zucchini pasta and fettuccini sauce, the zucchini she used julienne zucchini, by the time I tried it, it was all soggy, sitting in it's own juices, and the sauce, was no nuts, just really thin almond milk, with some sea salt, and some spinach, no flavor at all
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jalepeno dip with mostly jalepenos, and onions, and parsley, although it would have been great with about 2 dozen tomatoes, it was wayyyyyyy too spicy for anyone to eat
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parsley salad dressing, with some lemon juice, and olive oil, and some garlic, and sea salt, it was very bitter, plus it was served on an herb salad with no other greens, so it was again, way tooooooooooo herby tasting, pure arugula, and basil, and tarragon, WOW!!, if we'd had about 20 heads of greens, it would have been great.
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Dandelion greens salad with lemon and dill, sounds good, very bitter
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Arugula with tangerine salad, again, sounds good, very bitter
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carrot garlic soup, wayyyyyy too much garlic (which I didn't even think was possible)
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carrot, apple, celery juice, beet juice -- I have NO idea, what they did to this, it sounded great, so maybe they just put dirt in too-- I don't know it was brown, and sour, maybe just oxidized??
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blackberry smoothie, now how do you mess this up? it was thick like pudding, and it tasted ok, but it was so thick like a pie, you couldn't drink it, needed sweetener too, very sour, would have been good in an almond/date pie crust.
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Anyway, those are some of the ones I remember from our potlucks, tell me about yours, or even ones you have just tried.

Come on--no one will laugh, --OK OK, we'll ALL laugh, but that's the point.

[sachis2112]

Juliano's butternut squash soup. The one with the mango. He calls for FAR too much curry. Blech. I have a feeling I might have actually enjoyed it were there much less curry.

And, I'm sorry Alissa and Shazzie... The avo/banana stuff was TERRIBLE!!! Ick. Although, I have heard from others that they enjoyed it.

I also made some cookies that I didn't care for. They were flax seeds, amaranth powder, cinnamon and agave nectar. It was really only so, so. I should have added apple pulp or something.

[Sharon in Colorado]

Ugh, RP you brought back my mac & cheese nightmare. That had to have been one of the worst.

Another was a sort of "bar" I made from another failed recipe, you know the kind you try to revive but they only get worse? I can't even remember everything in there, but there was a strong bitter flavor from the bananas. I tried to turn it into some kind of pecan caramel bar with pureed dates and pecan halves on top and dehydrating, just kept getting worse and worse.

Then one time I had a rawkies meeting, someone brought some awful crackers made with ground up almonds and limes. She didn't say that she thought they were bad, just brought a big batch of them to the meeting. No one said much and before she left she asked if I wanted to keep them. I finally told her the truth, that they were pretty bad, but thought my dog Ruby would like them for a doggy treat (as often my bloopers would go to her). She looked at it, took a little whiff, and then walked away with her tail between her legs. We all busted up laughing!

[Jackie1995]

I tried a kale/carrot/cuke smoothie in my Vitamix and it was so gross (*wince*) I had to toss it in the garden, all the way away from the house.

Nothing could have made that taste good.

I also discovered that any super green juice without an apple is just not terrific. And my palate demands some raw ginger root in everything or it's just not "right".

By super green, I mean kale, rappini, zuchini, green pepper, stuff like that, all juiced together. Some of this stuff is quite bitter, and if I'm not drinking it, I just threw away a lot of money! That rappine is $2.99 per pound! The kale is a good deal at 99 cents per pound, but even zuchini is up there at 1.29 a pound! For goodness sake!

Needless to say, I haven't even tried to make any recipes, it's just juice, salads and crispy raw veggies like sunchokes and jicama for me. At some point, I'll experiment, but not just yet!

Oh, I almost forgot: banana apricot soymilk (ok, it was not raw soymilk, I admit it) was just not as wonderful as it sounded in my head before I did it. It needed some dried dates or something to sweeten it up. Apricots are just not the same as apricot jelly, folks!

Live and learn!

[Healthe]

Hi,
I would like to say that I made sprouted rye crackers that turned sour on me. Also, I have tried making potato chips & really don't care for the taste. I had also taken a celery slaw to a potluck once that I didn't taste after I made it and had comments about how bland it was! Oh well, I'm still learning!

:p

Sandy :)

[VeganVixen]

oh ,I tried making a lara bar ,I ground up the almonds ,dates and cheerys and it turned into a patse -I THEN added hemp protein powder and formed it into bars,it hd the color of dirt and the shape didnt help it look much better............

[JustMe]

I didnt like Alissa's cucumber soup because of the dill, BUT, I did try it BEFORE the seasonings and it was REALLY good. I was even hesitant to add all that dill, but I did. Should have listened to my gut.

Word of advice to those who are like me and are a little late in figuring this out-lol: Take a sample of meal BEFORE you add the seasonings and AFTER, take a spoonful and add the seasoning to that spoonful to see if you would like the recipe with them or not. :D

[ksabe98]

Hi I made the corn chips and they were so sour I had to throw them out. People said that you need to use frozen corn instead, still squeemish to try that one again. Also made flax seed crackers that tasted ok but gave me a belly ache every time I ate them so threw them out. Then I made a parmesean cheese substitute from one of my first recipe books I can't remember what it was called but that was a disaster. I tried to serve it to guests and there was some distasteful talk about what it looked like. Not a good thing there. I will never live that one down I swear. So that is it so far.

[sailaway]

So far I would have to say hands down the Mac and Cheese recipe. I am glad that others feel the same as we did here, I was worried that my family would be forever turned off of raw after eating it. It was one of the first things I made for the family at large. What a mess. LOL Needles to say it was hard to be upset as they drove off to Taco Bell! :(

[simple berry]

Raw guru's fettucine alfredo springs to mind. There may have been worse, but this one i made one night to take along to a big fund-raiser where everyone else was eating exceptionally yummy cooked vege food. i opened the glass container with the food just as someone (who'd sampled a raw cheesecake with raspberries i'd made a couple weeks earlier) finished telling a curious person seated at the same big table, "Her food is always really attractive and delicious." Well, not tonight, Z. The sauce was off color, lumpy and poorly textured; the whole thing was watery and the taste left a lot to be desired. Ugh. Better I'd gone with the usual apples in a cloth bag!

[mermaidinphilly]

Juliano's Corny soup...it would have been fabulous if it hadnt been for all the salt the recipe called for. the worst part was that i spent about $15 on ingredients to make it. we ended up using it as a topping for raw veggies.

[sjpersonal]

Hi,

Potato Chips. This may sound silly, but I was really looking forward to making this. The day that I received my mandolin I made salt & vinegar chips. They taste absolutely nothing like potato chips, wierd texture and starchy. I rinsed the potatos and dipped them so the color and appearance was fine. Just the taste was Yuuky:)

Looking forward to trying some of your recipes. I have a package waiting at the post office.:)

Bye
Sondra

[sjpersonal]

I tried a kale/carrot/cuke smoothie in my Vitamix and it was so gross (*wince*) I had to toss it in the garden, all the way away from the house.

Nothing could have made that taste good.

I also discovered that any super green juice without an apple is just not terrific. And my palate demands some raw ginger root in everything or it's just not "right".

By super green, I mean kale, rappini, zuchini, green pepper, stuff like that, all juiced together. Some of this stuff is quite bitter, and if I'm not drinking it, I just threw away a lot of money! That rappine is $2.99 per pound! The kale is a good deal at 99 cents per pound, but even zuchini is up there at 1.29 a pound! For goodness sake!

Needless to say, I haven't even tried to make any recipes, it's just juice, salads and crispy raw veggies like sunchokes and jicama for me. At some point, I'll experiment, but not just yet!

Oh, I almost forgot: banana apricot soymilk (ok, it was not raw soymilk, I admit it) was just not as wonderful as it sounded in my head before I did it. It needed some dried dates or something to sweeten it up. Apricots are just not the same as apricot jelly, folks!

Live and learn!
Regarding juicing greens, I learned that early on you have to use apple juice in that mix. I buy tons of apples and use it in all of my juices. You really have to be careful to not use too much Kale, the taste is awful.

bye

[Jackie1995]

Yep, you got it: apple is the answer!

I usually use 200 grams of kale or rappini or some other leafy green in all my juices. But I like variety, so now a standard base is one apple and 2 carrots. I add fennel once in a while, and sweet potato, asparagus, and sometimes a whole lemon or lime for that lip-smacking *zing*.

The funny part is my spouse says the juices I make for him are too sweet (this from a guy who doesn't like stevia sweetening in muffins, has to be sugar. Meanwhile I switched him to Sucanat and he's happy.) He prefers tomato based veggie drinks with a dash or two of chipotle tabasco sauce. Go figure!

[lallen13]

Most of things I have tried have been pretty good. I did try to make a green smoothy without someones recipy and it was pretty bad. I need to pay more attention to what others put in theirs before I try my own.
My only real problems have been with my dehydrator. things I make stick! I have an AMerican Harvest and I have tried several crackers and leathers and chips and they are stuck to the tray forever. I now add a little olive oil to the recipy or spray olive oil on the try and this has helped.
My first attempt at banana leather and sweet potato chips were really a source of intertainment for my family!

[bellamausi]

My only real problems have been with my dehydrator. things I make stick! I have an AMerican Harvest and I have tried several crackers and leathers and chips and they are stuck to the tray forever. I now add a little olive oil to the recipy or spray olive oil on the try and this has helped.
My first attempt at banana leather and sweet potato chips were really a source of intertainment for my family!

lallen13, I have the same dehydrator as you do, so I'll see, if I can help....

First of all, what problem did you have, when you made sweet potato chips?

Secondly, when you do a wet recipe, first dehydrate one side, and then flip the fruitleather tray over and carefully peel the whole round cracker (or whatever you are making) off with a pie spatula, so it falls right onto the mesh tray. I guess it takes a little practice, but I've gotten pretty good at it.

[NoGMO!]

I recently made MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP ICE CREAM in a raw version. this was my favorite flavour of ice cream in the past- but jeez - after that putrid experience I don't know???
I usually make great ice cream out of bananas BUT when I added peppermint extract (not sure if that was raw) it was terrible!
To me bananas and peppermint do not taste good together - maybe if it had been soy based ice cream it would have been good.

[Pailani]

To me bananas and peppermint do not taste good together

Neither do bananas and carob. I just made some carob ice cream tonight and it was a tad unpleasant. I've never liked chocolate and fruit combinations, so I shouldn't have been surprised that I wouldn't like bananas and carob.

[Autumn]

I made something (don't remember what-some kind of dip) that called for quite a bit of tahini and I thought it was disgusting. I tasted that tahini for days, no matter what I ate. I've realized now that I hate the taste of tahini, so in the trash it went.

[grantmercy]

Ugh, a while ago I made a "Mushroom Quiche", sounded good on paper, but UUUGGGHHHH!! It's found in Carol Alt's book "Eating in the Raw". It had a savory walnut crust... that was good. It's the inards that were gagging. I can't even describe the taste. Absolutely the most awful, vile stuff I've ever made. And for me, when I throw something out it's got to be extremely disgusting. This was it!

[VeganVixen]

Dont you hate it when you make something ,spend A LOT of time , then when you eat it and you have a hard time distinguishing if its good or bad , and either out of denial or frustration continue to eat it until you realise that its REALLY awful , and feel ill for eating it , I know I do ,lol!!!

[deedub]

VV you got me LOL on that one. When I resaw this thread I thought I have to post about my nugget experience. I was craving buffalo wings so I found this recipe for nuggets and bbq sauce. I made it and it looked terrible but I went ahead and formed the doughy substance into little nugget like shapes. Arranged then in a nice circle on the plate around a bowl of the bbq sauce. Dipped the nugget in great antecipation (sp) and it was horrible. So what do I do but dip it again and take another bite - horrible- Third bite -horrible and sticking to the roof of my mouth way in back. I jumped up and threw them all away. eegads! :eek:

[calee]

Someone posted a recipe for a raw pie somewhere that I tried. I made the nut/date crust that was yummy. Then I vitamixed some avocado/banana and lemon juice. I tried making it twice thinking it was something I did. Needless to say they both went in the trash!

Yesterday morning I tried to salvage a tasteless cantalope by blending it with a banana and some strawberries. I got all the way to work, tasted it and had to dump it all in the trash. I was hungry until lunchtime came!!

[rawpriestess]

OH, my hubby has this "holy grail" quest to find some food use for almond pulp. Now I simply use it to wash my face, as an exfoliant, but NOOOOOOO, my hubby seems to think that there MUST be some way to make it edible. I just add it to crackers, the same with carrott pulp, but that isn't good enough for him, he wants, no he desires with a passion to make something out of the pulp with little or no additivers.

So, this time he took 4 cups of juicey, ripe, organic, succulent strawberries from our garden, plump big deep red orbs, and placed them in the food processor with 2 cups of almond pulp, and made them become one, then he added 1 cup of chocolate mint leaves, then he didn't add anything else, I told him that it would need some dates, or sweetner, and maybe some kind of raisins, or substance of any kind, but noooooooo, he made these little squashy things out of them, and dehydrated them, they looked like slices of spam, for crying out loud, oval 1/4 thick wafers of unidentifiable ingredients, bright pink, with green blotches, eeeeeewwwwweeee.

So, the house smelled of warm strawberries and almonds, and mint, yummmmy, I was hoping for the best, but they were really ugly little wafers, so he tries one, and swallows, so I am thining it can't be too terrible, and it certainly smells good, so I take a bite, and this nasty mush sits on my tongue, and I finally decide to be rude and actually spit it out in the sink, then in my infinite wisdom, I think, oh I must have been mistaken, it couldn't have been THAT bad, so I take another bite, and this time I really have to spit it out, and I give the poor pink flattened thing to the dog, who loves them.

so, now we have an entire bucket of dog treaters.

Oh boy!!!

So, it may have been terrible in my world, but our dog is very happy.

[RawYogini]

I miss Mac n' Cheese and when I found Bryan's recipe, I was psyched. I haven't tried making it yet but from what people are writing above, I'm concerned that it's the same recipe. Before I go to the trouble, can someone confirm where they got the "bad" Mac n' Cheese recipe?

Things I've made and hated:
Juliano's Toast (way to spicy and pungent)
Soggy zucchini spaghetti (how do you keep it from getting all wet when it sits for awhile?)
Cousen's RGLC Cinnamon Rolls ( what a gooey mess!)

Some Things I Love:
Sergei's Truffles
Alissa's Ravioli
Patenaude's Macaroni
Patenaude's Mango Salsa
Renee Underkoeffler's Pea Mole

[devorah]

hi
i tried making almond yogurt and it came out horible! i tried to eat a few spoonfuls but i was afraid i'd get food poisining...
can anybody tell me of their experiances with nut/seed yogurts?

[rawpriestess]

YES, the BAD mac and cheese is Brian Au's from Raw in ten minutes.

The way to keep your zucchini noodles from getting soggy is, wither use yellow squash, or some other kind of hard veggie, or to let the zucchini sit for a while in the dehydrator, with the sauce on it, and it won't be soggy, but the zucchini will disapear after dehydrating because of all of the water in it, unless you keep it covered in the sauce.

[zeeraw]

Soggy zucchini spaghetti (how do you keep it from getting all wet when it sits for awhile?)

I drain my zucchini noodles on paper towels and only add the sauce just before I eat it. Haven't taken this dish to work yet but I thought about putting the noodles in a container with paper towels lining it. Put the sauce in another container and when I'm ready to eat join them both together. :)

[Zena]

I actually loved the mac and cheese so much I made it two days in a row... :o

The only things i've ever made that have been REALLY terrible were... soups. "Green Romaine Soup" with romaine lettuce, tomato, cucumber, avocado, apple, green onions... a lot of things! Totally wasted, because it was absolutely the most disgusting thing I had ever tasted, and the first raw thing I made! That discouraged me for a while. :rolleyes: And just last week, a carrot, asparagus and tahini soup.... iiiiiiiick. I had that 'Do I like it or not....?' confusion, then decided, after I had almost finished all of it... nooooo, that is pretty nasty. I'll have to try asparagus with something else, it just tasted so weird. Maybe the carrot and tahini would be good in something else, though...

[rawfigure]

My most recent fauz pas was simple...
Yesterday I made seseme milk...ugh. I had to spit it out ! Maybe my taste buds ? cause how can you screw up seseme milk !!

Kale chips in the dehydrator..

and worst was my first Rye Bagels...into the trash. I eyed the salt and added too much salt, bitter from the sunflower seeds I think.

[Bobbie]

I got my first batch of freshly picked wild dandelions -
and excitedly threw them in the food processor with some lemon juice, an avocado, a tablespoon of flax oil. I do this with all the other greens and its delicious. It was vile. I added an apple, and 1 tablespoon olive oil and it was even more vile.

I thought oh well I'll just have to force it down, because the ingredients are all supergood for you and it'll give my liver a good cleanse. I managed 2 spoonfuls and it made me gag, it was the grossest thing ever.
My mum forced 1 tablespoon down and it made her throw up violently for the rest of the evening.
We both agreed it was the revolting vile disgusting food ever.

[rawhomeschoolmom]

I think my worst so far has to be the apple pie -- too wet and mushy, and the carrot cake -- like another post here said, it tasted like baby food. I'm going to try doubling the nuts and using the dehydrator next time.

Thank goodness the recipe success far outweigh the ones that aren't! :)

[lily]

My worst recipe was the Eggplant Parmesan from Alissa's book. I had seen it recommended on this message board, so others obviously like it -- but I found the flavour of the dehydrated eggplant seemed to permeate everything with a taste I didn't like, though normally I love eggplant. I was disappointed and a bit embarassed because I made it for a non-raw friend, but she gamely ate without any comment, so it can't have been tooooooo bad (or else she's exceptionally polite).

lily

[lil fairy z girl]

my worst one was the cabbage pear salad from Alissa's book. I should have known better as i dont like pears anyway, but i somehow thought it would taste ok. i ended up throwing it in the bin.

kind wishes
sal

[BerryGirl]

I made Alissa's pizza bread recipe last night and had some for lunch this afternoon. I ate an entire piece-- well, most of an entire piece, but I just didn't like it. Our youngest cat, on the other hand, loves it-- I spilled some of the mix on the floor last night and he licked the floor clean for me!

A few weeks ago I tried a tortilla soup recipe that was posted on this site. We tasted it and wound up eating (non-raw) peanut butter and jelly instead.

[rawdelight]

OMG! the Pizza Bread is to LIVE for. Also the Eggplant Parm is one of my favorites!!!!

[Faithfullyfit]

I recently made MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP ICE CREAM in a raw version. this was my favorite flavour of ice cream in the past- but jeez - after that putrid experience I don't know???
I usually make great ice cream out of bananas BUT when I added peppermint extract (not sure if that was raw) it was terrible!
To me bananas and peppermint do not taste good together - maybe if it had been soy based ice cream it would have been good.


check www.rawlifeline.com for their mint chip jollotti recipe- yummy :)

Faithfully FIT :rolleyes:

[bootzey]

I made alfredo sauce from Alissa's book. Blech! I saw it again. It could be the zuchini. I found out that my body just doesn't want to eat zuchini. I get skeeved by the smell.

The second entry on the list were the chocolate chip cookies. I followed Alissa's recipe exactly and they didn't taste or look like chocolate chip cookies. Oh, I found out, that something in dried fruit gives me an allergic reaction. I always thought people with food allergies were thin!

[aromaticwings]

Well, I just saw this post... I have not been able to make anything with wheat berries that tasted good.. I don't care what length it was sprouted to.. it was awful... Feel the need for some wheat... hevy sigh... would love something kind of grainy.. but needs to be good.

[exurb]

apologies for the blasphemy, but the worst raw thing I ever made IMO was Alissa's date-nut torte. It was the only thing I ever made that I truly couldn't eat. I just don't get it when everyone raves about it, or when they say it's a sure fire crowd pleaser :eek: :confused: :( :eek:

It did become useful as I turned the whole thing into a base for yummy carrot cookies, I just couldn't bear to waste all those ingredients. So just a note that if you make something inedible, look at the ingredients that went into it and see if you can transform them into an entirely different recipe.

Sorry everyone, I know many people like it, so no offense!! Am I alone on this one, I felt like a freak because everyone always recommends that recipe.

[rawpriestess]

I love the pizza wrap, eat it all the time,


I guess people have different tastes.

[VibraTechJulie]

I learned a lesson from my worst raw recipe. I asked on the boards if Alissa's chili recipe really had 1/2 cup of Chili powder. It was confirmed yes. So I made it following the recipe exactly. Well the lesson is this: American chili powder is not just ground chilies but also has other ingredients that mellow it out. Bought my chili powder at an Indian Spice store. It was so hot it was inedible!

To try to salvage it, I ran all the ingredients through the colander, made the paste again, added more O.J., honey. Still too hot. Read on the internet that citrus cuts the heat of the peppers so I added some lemon juice. Pretty hot but edible with the onion dip.

Now the onion dip is one of my favs and I am trying to get brave enough to try chili again.

Words of wisdom: Know your ingredients!

Thanks RP for such a fun thread :D

Raw Blessings,
Julie

[Sharon in Colorado]

The cinnamon roll (Elaina Loves) recipe never came out good for me. I tried that recipe 2-3 times hoping it was something I did wrong. In fact nobody in my home liked them. Rawkinlocs recipe beats it hands down.

[Rawkinlocs]

Thanks Sharon :)

Yeah, I guess with a lot of these recipes, one person's "YUCK" is another person's "YUM" and vice-versa! :p

[juliebove]

I learned a lesson from my worst raw recipe. I asked on the boards if Alissa's chili recipe really had 1/2 cup of Chili powder. It was confirmed yes. So I made it following the recipe exactly. Well the lesson is this: American chili powder is not just ground chilies but also has other ingredients that mellow it out. Bought my chili powder at an Indian Spice store. It was so hot it was inedible!

To try to salvage it, I ran all the ingredients through the colander, made the paste again, added more O.J., honey. Still too hot. Read on the internet that citrus cuts the heat of the peppers so I added some lemon juice. Pretty hot but edible with the onion dip.

Now the onion dip is one of my favs and I am trying to get brave enough to try chili again.

Words of wisdom: Know your ingredients!

Thanks RP for such a fun thread :D

Raw Blessings,
Julie

I made the same mistake! I had run out of chili powder and bought some at the health food store. I worried though because the brand was EZcurrie or something like that. Led me to believe it might be Indian. I can't remember not what recipe I made with it but I knew right away something was wrong by the first bite. I couldn't eat it. Much too spicy and the taste was off. Now I make sure to buy Mexican chili powder.

[Green Life]

The toast from Julianis book. It was just terrible.

The carrot cake from Allissas book. Too goopey and baby foodish.

The Onion Bread. Was very bitter and I made it several times using different recipies.

The Pumpkin Pesto and the breakfast sausage from the Boutnekkos book.

The chicken nuggetts. Yuck and double yuck.



My favorites are: (Don't want to sound pessimistic, LOL)

Pecan pie from Allissas book

Nacho cheese and cheddar cheese from Allissas book (unbelievable)

Fig bars and straberry tarts from Allissas book


Green :D Life

[Rawkinlocs]

Hey Green Life!

You gotta try the carrot cake again...don't know if you saw what I did or not, but check it out...http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13662 :D

[Green Life]

K, Thanks!


Green :D Life

[ktkat]

Hi,

I've never been one to cook, and my first raw desssert was Juliano's Jul's Cashew Butter Fudge Cookies. I was so excited because he wrote how no dessert could come close. I admit I used the "wrong" brown coconut and after cracking and scraping for hours to get the meat was thoroghly disappointed when my dough was batter and being a little dense, tried dehydrating anyway. Well 36 instead of 12 cookies later I realized the 2 cups of maple must be a typo. That's when Alissa saved me from raw despair, and I can't bring myself to try that recipe again.

[Happiness]

Hi, this is my first post. I had to join after reading this thread just to say....Thank you! I have not laughed that hard in I don't know how long! TEARS ARE RUNNING DOWN MY FACE! I am new to raw (10 weeks) and it helped me so much reading all of your disasters. Because I have had sooooooo many of my own.

I, too, have tried to do something, anything with almond pulp. I think my first try was crackers. It was my first thing I made with the dehydrator. I just put the almond pulp in with some honey on top. It was sooooo bad!

This was worse, I got my Vita-mix and made some coconut curry soup with waaaaaaaay too much curry.

And only yesterday, I made coated plantains with oil and dehydrated them. I didn't know that they are not ripe at green. They were beyond bad!

When I used to cook I would just burn things and give up. Now, I just dehydrate them or add more agave and laugh.

[Sharon in Colorado]

After so much trial and error I often halve a recipe, especially if it involves a lot of expensive ingredients.

[Svadhyaya]

I made Alissa's Zucchini Hummus with some Chinese Tahini that definitely had things inside other than regular tahini does, because it tasted weird and burnt and like I was eating roasted ground cockroaches. I just made it before tasting the tahini, and had to throw all of it out. Awful......just awful.....

The package was written in Chinese so I have no idea what that awful taste was. It was baaaaaaaaaad.

[aromaticwings]

I made Alissa's Zucchini Hummus with some Chinese Tahini that definitely had things inside other than regular tahini does, because it tasted weird and burnt and like I was eating roasted ground cockroaches. I just made it before tasting the tahini, and had to throw all of it out. Awful......just awful.....

The package was written in Chinese so I have no idea what that awful taste was. It was baaaaaaaaaad.
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww..... so sorry you had to go through this... I find I won't buy anything I can not read... lol :eek:

[Svadhyaya]

I wouldn't have known it was tahini in the first place had I not asked the lady at the counter, who grabbed me by the arm and yelled in my face and dragged me down the aisle and shoved it into my hand! She wasn't being mean, just very abrupt, as are all the people who work there. It looked like tahini and even smelled like tahini.....who'd have known.

Oh, well.....I'm getting Red White and Blue tahini from now on. Hee hee....

[ChaiLife]

Tasted like gound roaches huh? Hmmm....never had roaches so I wouldn't know. LOL :D


One of the worst things I made was an Italian Zucchini Soup. I made it the first day we went raw and it was terrible. It tasted like dirt! I think it was the sprouts in the soup. I don't think sprouts are really meant to be blended into soups.


Talking about nasty things, there are some fruits/veggies that I am finding out that I absolutely can't stand!!!!
I use to hate tomatoes but now am starting to enjoy them somewhat.


I have tried 3 times on papaya and have decided that I just can't stand the stuff. Ick!!!!! It smells like a dirty diaper to me. I cut one open today for the final time and now my kitchen has that awful smell.

Oh, I also made a cauliflower soup that was nasty. None of us could eat that either. Seems like I have some issues with soups. :o
I was beginning to think that I did not like cauliflower either until I tried the Spanish "rice" recipe. I had told hubby that this was the last chance I was giving the cauliflower. If it didn't cooperate this time it is not allowed to come back to our house. But it turned out delicious!

Oh, also not a huge fan of the Asian pear or red delicious apple.

[Svadhyaya]

Our tastes are similar.....wow....

I don't care for Papaya, either, especially the nasty smell, although it's not bad dried. Hate asian pears, hate delicious apples (misnamed....they should have named fujis the delicious ones) and hate all the raw soups I've tried so far. Most of them really aren't anything more than a smoothie you eat with a spoon.

[gatorgrrl]

I fixed a garden hamburger the other day and I was so unpleased with the taste. I kept adding stuff hoping to make it better but it kept getting worse. Now I have a big dish of it left. I ate 3 helpings of it. My dog is 100% raw so I thought for sure he would like it. He just smells it and looks at me like you have to be kidding.

[English Tracy]

I tried Alissa's cannolis with the wheatberries. They eventually tasted pretty good although it took about 3 days for them to dehydrate. I have no idea where I went wrong there!

This was a technical disaster rather than a taste disaster but as I'm still fairly new to raw it will take me a while to get things perfect.

Tracy

[rawstrawberry]

I made a raw lavendar cheesecake yuck way too much lavendar and it didn't help how runny it was as I was pouring into the pan it dripped over the sides and onto the floor and cost a fortune to make...

So it was very expensive lavendar soup!

Raw Strawberry

[gavinart]

So far for me it was a Cauliflower Soup from Saffron's book... YECH! IT repeated on me all night, after only one spoonful. Yech!

I didn't like the Eggplant Parm from Alissa's book, thought it was to onut heavy with the marinara tasting like ketchup after the dehydration.... though I see the possibilities in this recipe, and think i'll halve the amount of nuts next time.

[heabrook]

I haven't actually made anything that I didn't like...

but I did have something that was made (at a restaurant) that I didn't like. It was raw lettuce wraps with a bunch of veggies and patté inside. I'm not sure what raw patté they made, but it was yuuuck.... I think they got most of their ideas from Juliano's cookbook because they also had his flax crackers.

[ChaiLife]

I forgot about one other dish that I made that no one could eat. My hubby even had to toss his out.
Mashed "potatoes" with brown mushroom gravy. The gravy wasn't too bad but the "potatoes" were just nasty. :(

[jenna rose]

A while back, I made Alissa's Broccoli soup because I had a bunch of broccoli left over. Maybe someday I'll try making it again, but uh-uh.


I have some corn chips in the dehydrator right now. The first time I made them, they had a horrible aftertaste. But this time, I froze some corn and I'm trying it that way. Hopefully they will be okay.

[Thick]

everyone has different tastes, and for me it was blueberry pie--but my kids loved it=)

[contessa20]

Wow, this thread was really dug up from the basement wasn't it? :D


My absolute WILL NEVER MAKE AGAIN recipes are Alissa's Pasta Alfredo (WAY too heavy and nutty), Ani Phyo's Japanese Miso-Shitake Soup, Andrea Primm's Refried Beans (again, too heavy and nutty) and the Chick-un Stripes that were posted here awhile ago (tasted a bit like lemon flavored mold). I LOVED the taste of the Miso-Shitake Soup but it gave me wicked stomach cramps and diarrhea for 2 days after eating it. :eek: I think it would have been better with less olive oil.


Some of my favorite recipes though are, Alissa's Enchilada's, Raw Dawg Rory's Refried Beans and Raw Dawg Rory's Cucumber Aioli. Yummmmm!

[contessa20]

I was wondering why such a negative thread WAS dug up :confused::confused::confused:

It's only negative if you choose to view it that way, in my opinion. There's some discussion on the thread about how some people improved some of the recipes that others thought were unsavory. It's also simply a discussion of opinions. You wouldn't find it negative to discuss one's favorite recipes would you? It's basically the same thing... opinions. No one is being rude or derogatory in any of their posts.

Look for the silver lining.

[rawfigure]

1. Kale chips....arg. Stunk up the whole house
2. Falafel, same as above peeee uuuuuuu

[Thick]

I was wondering why such a negative thread WAS dug up :confused::confused::confused:


I was searching for a recipe, and thought this thread was interesting. I think we ARE allowed to discuss recipes on this site aren't we,Veganforlife?

Sometimes the best way to show respect (to Alissa) is to allow for the free discussion of opinion and ideas-- unless you believe that free discussion wouldn't be to her benefit.

It is interesting to read about the likes and dislikes of people with similar tastes--and funny when people report not liking some of my favorite recipes!

[lodestar]

mock salmon pate....junked it twice...won't make the same mistake again.

[RaeVynn]

I was reading through this thread, and sharing a few choice items with DH...

Yes, we also can't stand the infamous "Mac 'n Cheeze" recipe mentioned earlier. In fact, that whole cookbook seems to have 2 main seasonings for every single recipe!

I've also had the experience of trying to 'save' a recipe, and making it worse! LOL

I've not had any real mishaps with any of Alissa's recipes, but the 'Mashed potatoes and brown gravy' didn't earn any bonus points... the gravy was okay. I do want to try the enchiladas, I must say!

[katchmoleen]

I have had several disasters but have been able to salvage them into somethng else. I am not a picky eater, but I tried an alfredo sauce that was just horrible, I could not eat it. So I added some tomatoes and seasoning, dehydrated it, and turned it into tomato basil wraps that were actually pretty good.

[katacykls]

Some of the worst recipes-I have made include:

Raw Falafels from Juliano's book Raw-they were too lemony and way to salty and they had a very starchy taste to them.

Alissa's Coconut soup with the Pineapple and coconut was very gritty and unpleasing.

Also whenever I've tried making Tahini it comes out way to bitter and paste like not smooth like the "commercial cooked kind".

[katacykls]

I fixed a garden hamburger the other day and I was so unpleased with the taste. I kept adding stuff hoping to make it better but it kept getting worse. Now I have a big dish of it left. I ate 3 helpings of it. My dog is 100% raw so I thought for sure he would like it. He just smells it and looks at me like you have to be kidding.

The dog story is hillarious.

[lucky lemons]

Contessa20 - I didn't like the Alfredo Pasta in Alissa's book either, it's one that stands out for me because it was way too nut heavy and had an unappetizing texture (to me). I also didn't care for the Pad Thai.

[Aleesha Sattva]

yes you are allowed to discuss recipes here... but if the posts become too negative they will be deleted. please show respect to your fellow members...

veganforlife had every right to voice her opinion - just as you are choosing to voice yours.

Aleesha
Moderator

[katchmoleen]

I guess I enjoy hearing people discuss their own personal disasters when they tried to make something, or how they salvaged a mess, rather than dissing specific author's recipes.