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I'm staying late at work... the cafeteria's closed, which is moot because my wallet is temporarily empty.... It's 11:00 and I am now hungry... :(

so I looked around my office, and scrounded up some canned tuna, seasoned it with normal spices (salt, pepper, shoyu, and some dried, diced onions, and other 'stuff'.) mixed the whole thing together and baked it in my toaster oven. Stitting at my desk, I can smell it, and it smells....






great, actually...






but the real test is in the taste...




fortunatly, I work in a Hospital... so if I poison myself... I won't have to wait long for medical help... ;)


so here is the point of this thread... what was the most unusual thing you cooked up and ate... and what was the results.


and make it good... I might be reading this while recovering... :p

so here is the point of this thread... what was the most unusual thing you cooked up and ate... and what was the results.


I made ham and vegemite cookies once.

They tasted like...ham and vegemite cookies.

I'm hungry now.

I made ham and vegemite cookies once.

They tasted like...ham and vegemite cookies.

Eww. And I was already feeling sick. :(

Damn my morbid curiosity. :mad:

Eww. And I was already feeling sick. :(

Damn my morbid curiosity. :mad:

Well, I made a jalapeno prawn cocktail once too. Is that better?

And a :fluffle: to make you feel better

I remember when I was young, about 6, I drew up a recipe for a... 'cake'. It had all the normal cakey stuff, eggs flour etc. but it also contained chicken, potatoes and probably some other things. Since I liked chicken and potatoes! *defensive*
The really wierd thing was that I showed it to my parents and they were perfectly happy to help their young son cook this hideous freak of cooking. So I did, and it ended up being taken to school and gave it out :eek:
It actually tasted good though, and just like a regular cake. No hint of potatoes in there at all. I assume my parents took the wierd things out when it was cooked, but I asked them and they denied it.
So that's the story of how I almost poisoned a year one class.

verdict... not bad, it didn't taste as good as it smelled, but it wasn't bad.... needed something... some starch tho...

hmmm... maybe I can improve on this...

I remember when I was young, about 6, I drew up a recipe for a... 'cake'. It had all the normal cakey stuff, eggs flour etc. but it also contained chicken, potatoes and probably some other things. Since I liked chicken and potatoes! *defensive*
The really wierd thing was that I showed it to my parents and they were perfectly happy to help their young son cook this hideous freak of cooking. So I did, and it ended up being taken to school and gave it out :eek:
It actually tasted good though, and just like a regular cake. No hint of potatoes in there at all. I assume my parents took the wierd things out when it was cooked, but I asked them and they denied it.
So that's the story of how I almost poisoned a year one class.... you may be on to something...

some prisions take to baking a meal in side bread... saves on clean up and the violent in mates get their full neutrition...

if there can be chicken pot pie... perhaps a baked chicken cake?

hmmmm....

In terms of interesting food attempts, my sister and I are past masters. Some of the more entertaining ones would be pepperoni pizza pie ala mode (which was actually pretty good), chocolate chip biscutt cookies (for those who speak British English, by biscutt I mean scone), home made dounuts that were made from pancake mix, honey apples with instant coco powder, salmon glazing with red peppers subsituting bell peppers, and my personal favorite, biscutt cake.

I made a really good sauce by combining chili powder, beef bullion, butter, water, and garlic salt. It did ok as a chicken sauce, but it rocked as the sauce for a pork dish.

Well, I made a jalapeno prawn cocktail once too. Is that better?

And a :fluffle: to make you feel better

Mm, prawn. Yeah, I guess that's better. :)

And thanks for the :fluffle: Entertainment would be better though :P

Pot pizza? That is pizza that you get more hungry the more you eat. ;)

Oh, and salmon fried rice, left over rice + veggies + half a can of salmon.

Some classic creations from uni i.e. clearing out the left-overs:

1:
Take onions, slice them up, fry them up with garlic, add garlic chilli sauce (the strong kind), add some soy sauce, season with pepper, add crumbled Cheshire cheese, and add milk to make it like a creamy sauce. Serve on toast.
Delicious!

2:
Chop up some pork sausages. Fry up with some garlic and oregano. Season with salt and pepper. Throw in some chopped apples. Cook until the apples are not that crunchy any more. Add baked beans. Simmer for a short while.
Serve on toast.
Magnifique!

They're not exactly recipes, but...

On my 13th birthday -
Pizza and mudcake in the same bite. The two tastes are so incompatible that my brain wouldn't process them seperately...it was just like...pizza, and mudcake. In the same bite.

A few days ago - My friend had a coffee & chocolate muffin which tasted awful, so she gave it to me.
i then proceeded to dip it in sour cream and sweet chilli sauce.
The verdict =
Undercooked coffee bean & chocolate chip muffin + sour cream + sweet chilli sauce = Surprisingly tasty.
Either that, or my brain was simply protecting me from the sheer awfulness of such a combination, and decided to send out "This Tastes Good" messages.

I used to cook as part of my volonteer job in a children's and youth activity center. I had to make sure that kids were willing to eat that, and that limits experimental freedom by quite a bit. I don't think I've ever really had anything that weird.

EDIT: Ooh, now I remember something. During said sojourn at the center, my colleagues and I were off on a trip and stopped at a café. I decided to be American and ordered a vanilla float. One of my colleagues overheard the people behind the counter say "He wants what!? But that can't taste good!" on her way to the restrooms.

11pm = 5am here..

:eek:

EDIT: You'd be surprised at how much you can do with two packets of easy mac..

well, I just had breafast, and I sprinkled some of that tuna mix on my rice. I just found a new rice topping! :D

11pm = 5am here..

:eek:

EDIT: You'd be surprised at how much you can do with two packets of easy mac..

I'm still finding things to do with Instant Saimin! :D

i can never remember my best creations cuz i'm usually pretty far gone by the time i decide to raid the cupboards in that way. when i was younger i used to like honey and marmite on toast for a while. i honestly don't recommend it. pesto on toast is awesome tho, with lots of butter.

I deep fried A LOT of things one night. The weirdest was probably the fruit snack, my friend said it tasted absolutely terrible though. Everything else was really good. e.g. a peach pie, banana, oreos, cookies, brownies, taco, half a bagel, et al.
Another more recent time i made a half pound (i think) burger full of garlic powder, oregano, worchestershire sauce and a chopped up hotdog, topped off with BBQ sauce. There was a large grease fire around it so it was partly burnt, but it was good nonetheless. I'm sure there were more things I've messed around with, but that's all I can think of at the moment.

Let's see, I fried some bacon and when it was nearly done, I cracked an egg over it. Then I put a slice of red onion in the bacon grease and flipped the egg-bacon mass over on top of it, breaking the yolk so the onion was nicely incorporated into it. I fried it until the egg was pretty well done and put a slice of cheese on top of the whole mess. When the cheese was melted I put the whole thing on a slice of buttered toasted and doused it with ketchup. Not too bad.

I made ham and vegemite cookies once.

They tasted like...ham and vegemite cookies.

I once made a packet vanilla cake with beer. There was no self raising flour & beer was the only raising agent I could think of.

I tasted like beer, but sweet.

Been there, done that.

It's part of my typical emergency rations deal.

The way to improve on it is to add some mayonnaise and/or ketchup to the mix.

Bon appétit!

So that's the story of how I almost poisoned a year one class.
Huh. Reading that leaves the impression that your recipe did have some undesired side-effects none the less!

Been there, done that.

It's part of my typical emergency rations deal.

The way to improve on it is to add some mayonnaise and/or ketchup to the mix.

Bon appétit!


Huh. Reading that leaves the impression that your recipe did have some undesired side-effects none the less!
:confused:
No, no undesired side effects...

:confused:
No, no undesired side effects...
How can you poison a year?!?

so here is the point of this thread... what was the most unusual thing you cooked up and ate... and what was the results.


and make it good... I might be reading this while recovering... :p

Once upon a time, in drunklandia, I decided a umbeboshi* sauce would make a nice addition to some fried rice for my bento lunch box for the next day. Lottsa umeboshi sauce. So much umeboshi sauce that it looked like sekihan**.

I gamely ate about half of it.

* A very salty, sour sauce made from pickled ume (Japanese "plums", more properly apricots - but the misnomer's pretty well stuck.
** Sekihan (http://www.shejapan.com/jtyeholder/jtye/living/wagashi/image/sekihan4.jpg) = a Japanese dish made with sweet red azuki beans and rice.

How can you poison a year?!?
*is still :confused:*
We call 'em years instead of grades in Australia.

... you may be on to something...

some prisions take to baking a meal in side bread... saves on clean up and the violent in mates get their full neutrition...

if there can be chicken pot pie... perhaps a baked chicken cake?

hmmmm....

Rather like the Cornish Pasty.

I don't know what it says about me, but a lot of the stuff being posted here doesn't sound at all unusual to me....

*is still :confused:*
We call 'em years instead of grades in Australia.

They're called years in UK too.

Haven't really eaten much really odd stuff (that I can remember!). Best I can think of is this:

Get some decent ham, and some lettuce. And bread of your choice. And butter/ marge if you want. so far a normal ham n' lettice sandwich. But add peanut butter...
:) Give it a try!

Meh, I'm not a very adventurous eater. The worst thing I've ever had was gummy corn chips, cold salsa, and a lukewarm Vanilla Coke...

*yuck*

I made ham and vegemite cookies once.

They tasted like...ham and vegemite cookies.
:eek: You win! You win! I surrender!
... you may be on to something...

some prisions take to baking a meal in side bread... saves on clean up and the violent in mates get their full neutrition...

if there can be chicken pot pie... perhaps a baked chicken cake?

hmmmm....
Damnit, now I'm hungry for chicken pot pie....or shepherd's pie....:(
11pm = 5am here..

:eek:

EDIT: You'd be surprised at how much you can do with two packets of easy mac..

Yeah, that and...a toaster, some chewing gum and a paper clip....

What? I saw it on MacGuyver... <.<

i can never remember my best creations cuz i'm usually pretty far gone by the time i decide to raid the cupboards in that way. when i was younger i used to like honey and marmite on toast for a while. i honestly don't recommend it. pesto on toast is awesome tho, with lots of butter.
I like gravy on toast.

They're called years in UK too.

Haven't really eaten much really odd stuff (that I can remember!). Best I can think of is this:

Get some decent ham, and some lettuce. And bread of your choice. And butter/ marge if you want. so far a normal ham n' lettice sandwich. But add peanut butter...
:) Give it a try!

My sister used to eat peanut butter and mayo sandwiches...*shudders*


Hmm..dunno how odd it is, but I like tortilla chips and Ranch dressing....

I like gravy on toast.

Sounds real good.

Hmm..dunno how odd it is, but I like tortilla chips and Ranch dressing....

Ranch is good on anything.

I once tried a banana with cheese melted on it and chocolate ice cream with ketchup. In both cases I was dared to. In both cases I vomited.

*is still :confused:*
We call 'em years instead of grades in Australia.
Oh. Well, then uh... carry on, I guess.

(This leaves me more :confused: than you probably were with my comment. I would've understood "poisened a class one year". Nevermind!)

Ranch is good on anything.


Nope. I promise you ranch will not be good on natto.

Nope. I promise you ranch will not be good on natto.

Natto?

When I was younger, sometime in grade school, a friend and I use to have "gross eating" contests. Basicly the rules were 1. no repeats 2. only edibles (or semi-edible 3. first to puke looses.

Some of the worst were salsa icecream, jalapenos and toothpaste, and raw eggs with lemon.

Natto?

Fermented soy beans I think...

I once made a packet vanilla cake with beer. There was no self raising flour & beer was the only raising agent I could think of.

I tasted like beer, but sweet.

That's awesome. :D

verdict... not bad, it didn't taste as good as it smelled, but it wasn't bad.... needed something... some starch tho...

hmmm... maybe I can improve on this...

I've in the past had to get creative with a can of tuna. One thing that works pretty well is to add some mayo, dill, black pepper, and balsamic vinegar. This goes great on some crackers.

Another option is to go for spicy: add some mayo, some seasoned salt, black pepper, a dash of cayenne pepper, onion powder and a goodly amount of worchestershire sauce. This will go a long way in masking the taste of the canned tuna if you're stuck and it's the only thing you have to eat.

The first of the above options is the more tasty of the two, I think...

Glad you survived!

Once upon a time, in drunklandia, I decided a umbeboshi* sauce would make a nice addition to some fried rice for my bento lunch box for the next day. Lottsa umeboshi sauce. So much umeboshi sauce that it looked like sekihan**.

I gamely ate about half of it.

* A very salty, sour sauce made from pickled ume (Japanese "plums", more properly apricots - but the misnomer's pretty well stuck.
** Sekihan (http://www.shejapan.com/jtyeholder/jtye/living/wagashi/image/sekihan4.jpg) = a Japanese dish made with sweet red azuki beans and rice.
... that sounds interesting... I have a jar of Ume, so got plenty of the juice. hmmm... on Tuna.


Natto?Fermented soy beans I think...yep... great on rice...


or so I've heard...

I've in the past had to get creative with a can of tuna. One thing that works pretty well is to add some mayo, dill, black pepper, and balsamic vinegar. This goes great on some crackers.

Another option is to go for spicy: add some mayo, some seasoned salt, black pepper, a dash of cayenne pepper, onion powder and a goodly amount of worchestershire sauce. This will go a long way in masking the taste of the canned tuna if you're stuck and it's the only thing you have to eat.

The first of the above options is the more tasty of the two, I think...

Glad you survived!true, unfortunatly, I didn't have mayo on me... nor crackers/bread...

Never tried it with worchestershire sauce...

my usual way of cooking is adding shoyu and Sugar, and frying it... then eating it with rice.... mmmmmm.

I tried mixing milk and ketchup once, as a kid. 'Twasn't good, so I didn't drink it, so it doesn't count.

An apple topped with American cheese and some cinnamon sugar and then microwaved is surprisingly good, but I didn't invent that.

This may not really belong on this thread. Anyway:
I was served excellently tasting prawn in Sri Lanka once, occasionally at the only "better" hotel we stayed at. Unfortunately they were infected by some exotic bacterium, so I was on the can for an entire night. Normally I don't feel all that sick from diarrhea (unless I have to vomit as well, which wasn't the case), but once the inside coating of the gut starts squirting into the bowl as undiluted blood and you're on the verge of losing consciousness when standing upright you tend to feel rather uncomfortable and not very secure. In the end I had to dive from the toilet into the bed, panting heavily from exhaustion, so as not to collapse to the floor.
Luckily my wife had what she thought might be the right antibiotics with her (she's a doctor) which I started taking asap and which were approved by the local medic I was able to see at a dispensary two days later, the nearest hospital being miles and miles off.
Ah, the comfort of having adequate if not personal health care ...

Sounds real good.
Yeah, it really is. It's kinda like biscuits and gravy...only with toast....Oh, and i like to mix corn in my mashed potatoes. Good stuff. Oh, and cheese and graham crackers.

Ranch is good on anything.
No, not really. I don't even like it on salads, lol. But it makes a good dip for chips and vegetables.
Fermented soy beans I think...
See, nothing would be good with that, so it's immaterial.:p
I've in the past had to get creative with a can of tuna. One thing that works pretty well is to add some mayo, dill, black pepper, and balsamic vinegar. This goes great on some crackers.

Another option is to go for spicy: add some mayo, some seasoned salt, black pepper, a dash of cayenne pepper, onion powder and a goodly amount of worchestershire sauce. This will go a long way in masking the taste of the canned tuna if you're stuck and it's the only thing you have to eat.

The first of the above options is the more tasty of the two, I think...

Glad you survived!
I'm lazy so just crackers with my tuna...unless a spoon is easier to get to than the crackers.....