Do you have a unique song you sing when you make a special dish?
So, I'm curious if anyone but me has a song (even of the jingle-ish variety) that they sing when making a specific dish. My most memorable, even 15 years later, is my grandma's pancake song:
"PANcakes everyone, PANcakes everyone, we know how to make them!
PANcakes everyone, PANcakes everyone, for our breakfast today!
Yesterday was (fill in here), and tomorrow's (fill in here),
but we are happy on (today, fill in here) morning for this is pancake day!"
Aaaah, to hear her sing it again.
I'm also fond of the much more softly sung/whispered in a snoozy sweetie's ear "wakey wakey, eggs and baccy" (bakey? backey? I'm not sure there's a right way to spell the cutie pie version of bacon. But there should be). This is best followed by the running of a hot cup of joe under the loved one's nose for maximum fortification before a hard day, either on the job or in the bed.
Any other favorites?
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27 Comments:
Years ago we started a tradition, I believe it was suggested by Calvin Trillin in interview on NPR, of listening to Mozart while cooking the Thanksgiving turkey. Does that count? No one wants to hear me sing.
Blue Iris at 5:41PM on 12/21/08
People pay me NOT to sing. :-0)
izatryt at 6:16PM on 12/21/08
well, I always listen to the office friendly station that pretty much switches to all xmas songs all the time come thanksgiving when I'm at home with my mom for xmas, but I was more thinking of songs you remember someone singing when making a specific dish. There's just something about a dish you've made a thousand times before, and the accompanying tune.
Ravara at 6:19PM on 12/21/08
I sing this song to my cat his name is Darby but I call him Cab-oo-let (weird for cassoulet) . Anyways I always sing this just insane sang when cooking "Caboulet....everone is SCREAMING for Caboulet......everyone is begging for the dish from Caboulet....." and it goes on and on.
pjracz10 at 6:26PM on 12/21/08
heh, I can sympathize pj. I always change my tone for when I'm opening a can of tuna vs something else. I think she almsot knows now, talking+can opener=omg tuna water, but if I ignore her, can opener=no fun.
Ravara at 6:48PM on 12/21/08
whenever I make bread I usually sing John Barleycorn. Maybe because my brain connects beer and bread even when I'm not making beer bread
huneybumper at 6:48PM on 12/21/08
My theme song since my divorce:
Jimmy Crack Corn and I Don't Care.......
If I'm making something truly wonderful and exotic for me and/or for people I love:
Zippety Doo Dah.....
PerkyMac at 6:54PM on 12/21/08
I always put on a Pavarotti CD when making pasta.
zucchini at 7:52PM on 12/21/08
@zucchini ~ almost with you there, but it's Andrea Bocelli for me. I'm totally in love with him, his music and his voice. Amore.
PerkyMac at 8:07PM on 12/21/08
For a while I would put on the soundtrack for Les Miserables while I was cooking and sing along with Fontine during "I Dreamed A Dream" and "Come To Me". I haven't done that in a while, though--I think it's time to break it out again.
I'm trying to think if there's a specific song for a specific dish, but none comes to mind at the moment.
buffy at 8:44PM on 12/21/08
When we are shucking corn in the summertime, I always sing...
'shucka corn , shucka corn , lemme tell ya what Im gonna doooo, Im gonna shuck ya, gonna pluck ya, gonna eat you too...shucka corn'.
hammondcheese at 9:49PM on 12/21/08
If I make a turkey, I don't sing, but CHANT, as I rub some butter or oil, and whatever, all around it "God bless the turkey..God bless the turkey..."
I have even been known to 'sashay' a necklace or something similar over it at the same time, as if an archbishop swinging the incense at a very special ceremony!
bachm at 10:06PM on 12/21/08
If I make a turkey, I don't sing, but CHANT, as I rub some butter or oil, and whatever, all around it "God bless the turkey..God bless the turkey..."
I have even been known to 'sashay' a necklace or something similar over it at the same time, as if an archbishop swinging the incense at a very special ceremony!
bachm at 10:14PM on 12/21/08
if i have a lot to do, like tons of cooking - i like to sing the theme song from "rocky".... i make my stepdaughter laugh with that one because my voice is just unbearable.
pooch at 10:41PM on 12/21/08
SO pointed out to me that when I get stressed in the kitchen (or anywhere) I start humming the theme song to the Bannana Splits. I even know the words which is scary since I barely remember the song.
huneybumper at 8:07AM on 12/22/08
ooops I meant barely remember the show. damn we really need that instant retract button!
huneybumper at 8:07AM on 12/22/08
I used to sing the Scooby Doo theme song when I was making "Scooby Snacks," for the boys when they were younger. Hmm, gotta start that again, I seem to make endless snacks for their bottomless teenager pits now. And hey, any Scooby fans out there, do you remember some ot the concoctions that Scooby and Shaggy would eat? I seem to remember an icecream sundae with pepperoni. And their sandwiches would put a Dagwood to shame.
dhorst at 8:24AM on 12/22/08
I usually do some freestyle rapping when I'm doing preps ( and no I'm not good), I sometimes even make up words just to get some rhyming, while I do some chopping, red and green pepper I'll be slicing, and I'm outing.
lesteralvin at 9:13AM on 12/22/08
Jambalaya. Jambalaya.
1stmakearoux at 10:28AM on 12/22/08
hammondcheese: you made me laugh hard and long with that one.
i don't sing while i'm cooking.
however, it is tradition after holiday dinners to crank up stevie wonder's best of disc while cleaning up...the men always look at us strangely from the living room as we jam out.
gastronomeg at 11:33AM on 12/22/08
I sing all the time when I'm cooking, but usually because I have a CD on. I'm convinced my holiday treats come out better with Bing and Ella in the background! BBQ=Vince Gill and Radney Foster; gumbo=The Radiators, etc. I also sometimes sing 'the Pie Song' from the movie "Waitress."
suthungirl at 7:47PM on 12/22/08
I absolutely have to have musicon when I'm cooking, and even more so when I'm doing the dishes afterwards. During the cooking, it's usually something mellow but sing-along-able, like the Beatles, but for dishes it's whatever's loudest and most shoutable, like the Kenny Chesney I have on now.
kfarrel3 at 8:26PM on 12/22/08
Oh also, if I know I'm going to bei n the kitchen for at least an hour, I start one of the (too many) Broadway soundtracks and dance along as well as sing as I cook (or bake). In case you haven't guessed, I'm usually alone for these sessions, haha.
kfarrel3 at 8:45PM on 12/22/08
@kfarrel3--Ella, definitely. "Sunday Kind of Love," definitely ensures a dish lovingly cooked.
dhorst at 9:52PM on 12/22/08
@suthungirl- I love that pie song!
Whenever I make Chicken Chile Verde I sing Clash songs in my head...reminds me of my friend Laura, who taught me how to make it.
mayoxqueen at 9:59AM on 12/23/08
Soundtrack to "The Big Easy" while making shrimp creole. Have listened to this since the time when I still used the recipe (age 12 or so?)
Kerosena at 10:30AM on 12/23/08
Thanks to "Scrubs", we now have a "waffle song", because I inevitably find myself singing "Oooh, it's waffle time, it's waffle time, won't you have these waffles of mine?" Sometimes I adjust this song to pancakes...
brooke29 at 11:32AM on 12/23/08