re: What is one dish that you just absolutely can't cook?

Bananas Foster. I've tried a few times and can't get it right.

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the inside isn't cooked all the way through.

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Your heat is too high most likely.

I wish with all of my heart that I could make cafeteria yeast rolls. I have tried a dozen times with several different recipes and they come out hard/dense/flavorless. Le sigh.

Pizza from scratch.

Oh, and use high-gluten flour if you can, otherwise high protein bread flour.

Rice.

My mom cooked hers in a Magnalite pot and it came out perfect every time. I kept trying to replicate it and failed every time.

I now have a rice cooker.

I'm not patient enough to let hash browns brown enough! Always have to stir and mess with 'em.

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I prefer rice cooker rice anyway but I absolutely can not get good rice when I cook it on the stove

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Put rice in pot, Pour water until it meets the first knuckle of your index finger when touching the top of the rice. Add a little salt and some oil to keep the bottom from sticking. Put heat on until the water is boiling and then put it on low simmer and cover for about 18 minutes minutes. Its not hard. Rice is cheap. You can practice.

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I made gumbo for years and everyone always asked me to make it for get-togethers and what not. 3 of the last 4 times I have tried to make it, the roux has separated when I added in my stock. Thought I figured it out and began using hot stock but the last time it separated anyway. I can't figure out for the life of me what I am doing wrong. My method has never changed. The last thing I can think to try is to sautee my veggies before adding to roux, maybe the veggies are going in too cold.

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I hit a slump on making roux here and there over the years. Generally I throw the flour out and go by new flour. Seems like the humidity causes issues at times. A couple of times I switched over to self rising flour for my roux and my roux problems went away.