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Anyone ever done something that should have been totally tasty and good but turned out all wrong?

Last night I was making some mexican soup and I wasn't feeling up to adding bits of tortilla and garnishes. I decided to make some buttermilk-cornmeal dumplings instead. I think I didn't have the water at a fast enough boil because while I got some bits that were definitely dumplings, the majority of the batter turned into porridge. gonk

It's still tasty and I used the spicy corn porridge this morning for breakfast along with two fried eggs. I was just really set on dumplings. sad

I've been making "sugar" cookies lately and I'm always too lazy to roll the dough and cut them...so they always turn out like balls of fluff. They are soft and tasty, but not really cookie like. One time I just plopped the dough in spoon fulls and they were more like biscuits. I really need to try and make them properly.

Man.. my first actual cooking experience... :

I woke up really early one time when I was an 'ittle one (8 years old, I think) to make my mom pancakes for her birthday or Mother's Day or something, I dug out her recipe and followed it and I was a little confused because the batter looked thin... But I reread the recipe and everything seemed okay.. so I turned on the stove and got the pan all hot, poured some batter in and it just evaporated instantly and smoked and got everywhere eek So I freaked out and poured more in hoping that if it had more to cook it wouldn't cook so quickly or something.. My little kid brain panicked xd Well, it turned out that I had only added 1/4 cup of flour instead of 1 and 1/4 cups... Mom woke up to the smell of smoke with smoke all through the house, thought the house was on fire, screamed at me for an hour and hasn't trusted me cooking since sweatdrop That's the last time I ever tried to surprise her with cooking something..

I was making homeade Marinara from a friends recipe, and i even helped her that week make it. And hers was fine.

But when i made it..the entire vat was inedible.
It was like one big pan of spice, you couldn't even taste the tomatoes..
It was so terrible, i've never attempted it again.

OMGOMGOMGOMGOGMOGMGOMGOMGOMGOMG.

So, yesterday, I was abandoned and had to fend for myself until mid afternoon. No milk = no cereal. I need to have a "breakfast like" food to start me off or it just doesn't go.

My boyfriend made me the quinoa pancakes, so I thought I would give it a go.

Well... I couldn't find his recipe so I searched the net for about an hour to find a recipe that I was comfy with.

Luckily, I have a laptop, so I could put it on the kitchen counter top and have my friend as support. It went... okay. I'm not one for instructions, so I never read a recipe through (just look at the ingredients, even then it's hit and miss). So I've got everything mixed up and was about to put the quinoa in, when I remembered the stuff I ate before didn't look like this. So, then, for the next twenty minutes I had to figure out what to do with the quinoa and then realized I had to have it cooked before putting in the batter.

So I've got one bowl half done and am trying to cook this quinoa. Got that done, mixed it up, looks like dog barf, but decided to fry it anyways. I have no idea how to make pancakes, so the butter is burning and starts the pan smoking. Regardless, I put the lumpy batter on and end up only half burning it.

Actual kitchen time, it probably took over two hours to cook pancakes. They were edible, but I doubt they're suppose to look or taste like that. I would make a terrible wife. sweatdrop