As anybody made such a simple mistake as I have and spoiled a whole dish?!


Question: I had been looking forward to experimenting with a salmon en croute for an evening meal for some friends. I wanted to get it just right, did evey thing the recipe told me to, but as I reached for the orange, to add the zest to the spinach which was included in the salmon and the sauce I accidentally picked up a red grapefruit!! Now I like grapefruit but with salmon it is definitely a no! no! The salmon en croute looked beautiful on the plate, lovely and golden.
But the taste was horrible.At first I didn't know what was wrong with it. But when I came to eat the so-called 'orange', the penny dropped. Good job it was just a recconasaince


Answers: I had been looking forward to experimenting with a salmon en croute for an evening meal for some friends. I wanted to get it just right, did evey thing the recipe told me to, but as I reached for the orange, to add the zest to the spinach which was included in the salmon and the sauce I accidentally picked up a red grapefruit!! Now I like grapefruit but with salmon it is definitely a no! no! The salmon en croute looked beautiful on the plate, lovely and golden.
But the taste was horrible.At first I didn't know what was wrong with it. But when I came to eat the so-called 'orange', the penny dropped. Good job it was just a recconasaince

Hey, welcome to the club. I sincerely believe no good cook can ever say that he never blew it. You blow it, you learn. I've ruined dishes before, sure. Anyone who is any good at all has.

Yes done that! Shame grapefruit didn't work I've made a note to avoid that one

I got flour and icing sugar mixed up when making pasty once...

I have. I was making a whole pot of homemade veggie soup and I misread the amount of oregano needed and put in way too much. The soup was ruined.

Give yourself a lot of credit for going to the trouble to experiment and invite friends over. Remember, if this ever happens again just order pizza and laugh about the mistake:)

I have never done that but I did reach for the chili powder and grabbed the cinnamon while making a mole enchilada sauce from scratch. I managed to cover the taste with a boat load more cumin and chili sauce. Waste not want not.

I have forgotten to add the vanilla to my puppy chow recipe a few times.. thank goodness no one can tell. I wonder why I keep forgetting it?

HEY!!!
That might be a mistake you made, but I can't even figure out when water is boiling!!! How many bubbles should there be?
lol I can make a bit of food, but I can never really know when something is boiling... its kinda annoying.

Hahaha ... thanks for the laugh!

Yep, I've done it, too. I gave my kids an old plastic salt-shaker to use for the cinnamon-sugar mix they eat on their toast. One evening, I was just finishing up with cooking dinner but thought the sauce on the noodles (beef stroganoff) needed just a leeeeeetle more salt .........

Pretty sure you can guess the rest! Needless to say, that shaker now says, in BIG letters ... CINNAMON SUGAR!

I pulled the most common mistake and confused the salt and the sugar... of course I didn't realize it until I sampled it! Ewgh!

Misread 1/2 tsp of salt in tapioca pudding, and put half a CUP in instead! EWWWW!

I once mistook epsom salts for sugar when making a coffee for a friend. We still have a good giggle about it now. You can imagine the results.

I was once invited to a Civil Defence trial run of an emergency dinner provided by volunteers. There was about 100 'evacuees' to cater for. It was all fine and edible until we got to the apple crumble for dessert, someone had used salt instead of sugar when making it! Yeuch! Glad I was not starving and in need of food.

My Dad was looking forward to eating chips. He put sugar on them instead of salt! How disappointing.
Just have to say I was very impressed you were cooking "salmon en croute". If that had been me, my friends wouldn't even be able to put a name to it, let alone recognise the flavour!!!

Oh no - I'm glad wasn't for the real meal.
Never done that before, but when I cook for a dinner party I'm a coward - I usually cook something that can be successfully reheated like slow cooked lamb shanks etc (that improve overnight in the fridge anyway) to avoid any catastrophes. You're a brave person.

All good cooks have made their share of goofball errors. If you haven't, you're not trying hard enough.

Sometimes you're lucky enough to figure it out in time to rescue the dish. Sometimes not. Sometimes it just works out anyway.

nah. i'm a good cook





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