Yes I kick myself when that happens. I found a chicken rice dish on the RE forum. Made it and not one of us 3 liked it at all. It sounded good, but sure wasn't. LOL

Here's a question for ya. I made a dessert that was posted here. Everybody raved about it. It was a simple recipe, so it wasn't that I messed it up. Anyways, I threw it in the trash. Would you say that you hated a recipe that was posted here?

Sorry it didn't work out Patti.

Lindakathy, I think I would just keep quiet about it. In the large scheme of things it just wouldn't be worth it. Now if someone asked me directly if I liked it I would tell the truth. If someone wanted a review I would tell the truth. But I wouldn't just come out and say I hated a recipe that that someone posted. I might say I didn't care for that type of thing but not criticize the recipe itself.

I once emailed a poster after they tried a recipe to see if they liked it. They thought it was pretty horrid but kept it off the boards. I appreciated the review and nobody got their feelings hurt.

Patti, it sure sounds good, but that happens to me a lot. But after going to all the work of making something new you hope it at least turns out good enough to not throw away.

Lindakathy, if I posted a recipe that wasn't good, I would appreciate an e-mail telling me that you made it and why you didn't like it. Maybe suggestions on how to make it better. Sometimes I post recipes that sound good, but I haven't tried yet. I try to remember stating that it isn't tried and true, but forget sometimes. If it just stinks, it would save me the trouble later of making it and I can delete it from my files.

Pattico - I have a similiar recipe that I want to try soon - its in the Campbells Soup Recipe book that I bought at the grocery store. Think you use a bisquick type crust on it. Hoping it turns out good. Just waiting for a cooler day to make it.

For a recipe posted on these boards that didn't turn out so hot, it would occur to me to either try to e-mail the original poster or post a follow-up here just to ask whether, just maybe, an ingredient was left off, saying perhaps "It was a little drippy" or "It was a bit bland to my taste buds" or "Was I supposed to use real cheddar cheese instead of Velveeta?" (lol!)

Oh yeah, it would hurt my feelings if someone tried something that I make that we love, and they couldn't eat it.

If several people rave about a recipe and one person didn't like it, that wouldn't bother me so much. Maybe there was a flavour they didn't like, for example.

What I would like to see more often, is if people try one of the recipes posted here, and they like it! Either one of own tried and true, or one that we post that looks good.

I tried one, posted here, for a potluck dinner. Sounded so good, and did not work. I would love to try it again, but need to tweek it.

First we all have to remember that we won't all love the same things...

Would I tell them...probably not..unless they ask me..

But even if I told them I didn't care for it...doesn't mean they wouldn't still love it.

If some one didn't like something I cooked...I'd just figure...good....more for me...(like I need it)

LOL...go figure...Denny just came in here to give me a kiss goodnight...and says...while rubbing his belly..."Boy that dinner was good tonight..."

So it just proves it...we all have different ideas of what is good.

But I have news for him...he's not getting it again...lol

Several day ago I made a tuna casserole out of leftover small shell pasta, I had one large can of mushroom soup, 3 cans of tuna and some shredded cheese and mushrooms. I just wanted to use up the items...DH thought it was wonderful. Such raves!

I tried a chili seasoning product called False Alarm Chili, It was supposed to be to make MILD chili. Believe me, their idea of mild and mine is not the same. I tried a number of things to 'lighten' it up, but ended up tossing most of it. I sure hate to waste food like that, but live and learn, I guess.

Hubby was watching football yesterday. I decided to make him a bowl of popcorn. We had some "gourmet" popping corn from last Christmas. Made it, added salt and butter.Inedible, too much salt. tried again. Same result.It scratched my tnroat going down. Result- Two batches out for the birds so they could have a gourmet treat. And hubby's team won the game, so he didn't mind too much.

I once made a T&T chicken and rice dish that came out tasting awful, like the chicken had been sprayed with Raid. I declared it poisoned, grabbed the whole thing up, stuck it in a plastic bag and out with the trash. If I'd had the receipt, I would have gone back to the store. Now that I think of it, I should have gone back to the store and told the manager so they could pull any chickens still on the shelf.

Sometime it is a difference in taste, but you've got to love the ones that try a recipe that was posted and it didn't turn out. THEN, comes the truth and they say well, they didn't make it the same as the original. LOL
My biggest problems seem to be when I want to try to make a smaller version of something, with just two of us.

That happened to me once on another forum. Somebody not following directions that is.

I gave a recipe for a dessert dish that had always gotten raves in the past---including from me of course.

This lady decided to make it for a get-together with her in-laws, then complained that they didn't seem to be impressed. THen she went on to mention all the substitutions she had made, eiher due to not having a particular product and/or her own "creativity".

I guess it didn't help that she clearly wasn't her in-laws' favorite DIL, as apparently they raved on & on about the other DIL's dessert contribution that day.

So, in the end, it really wasn't MY recipe.