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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling
I spent several weeks each summer with my grandparents in Tennessee. My grandmother made the best chocolate shakes - Meadow Gold vanilla ice cream, milk and Hershey's syrup. They were my favorite dessert!
When I was a kid and stayed home sick, my mom always made chicken noodle soup for me, gave me a Thermos of hot tea, and made my favorite flavor of Jello. It's those little things that mean so much and stick with you!
Guilty Food Pleasures
@nightowl, I am right there with you on the Utz Crab Chip (potato chips seasoned with Old Bay). I could eat the entire bag.
I also love Annie's Mac & Cheese with extra butter mixed in for extra creaminess; Krispy Kreme HOT donuts; McD's quarter pounder & hot salty fries; Ruffles and supermarket french onion dip (the kind in the dairy section, not the jarred kind - blech); Top Ramen with frozen peas added for some nutritional value and most of the water drained before adding the seasoning packet; Pringles Jalapeno chips; Chef Boyardee ravioli; Velveeta dip mixed with a can of Rotel and cooked sausage served with Fritos scoops; Campbell's vegetable soups.
I think it's safe to say I am not a food snob. I like it all!
Pantry 'Ghosts': Do You Have Them?
This is hysterical! After some thought, and a jogged memory from some other comments, I submit the following:
-Canned asparagus. NASTY and I can't remember why I bought it. It's been with me at least 4 years. I can't bring myself to give it to the Boy Scouts or the postal carrier when they come around.
-2 cans of whole cranberry sauce from 2 Thanksgivings ago. I offer to bring the sauce and someone else has beat me to it.
-Pomegranate martini mix with a tin of salt for rimming the glass. A present from our neighbors 2 years ago.
-A squeeze bottle of white cookie icing. I made Christmas cookies once. It sits in my cabinet imploring me to be used again.
-Manishewitz matzoh ball soup mix. I think it's about 3 or 4 years old.
-I think I also have some hot chocolate mix in a glass jar from some holiday gift box from a relative. I know it will suck, but I just can't toss it.
I know if I searched our cabinets, I'd find more. Kind of scary!
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I read both CK's editorial and Adam Roberts' response and found Adam Roberts' to come off rather whiny and petulant. His blogger ego was bruised and so he spouted off.
I am a big fan of Cook's Illustrated and its off-shoots because their model works. I know any recipe that I get from their site or magazine will work and will be wonderful. I love the equipment and food tests and I know they aren't being paid by those companies to endorse that product, unlike some bloggers or magazines. And has anyone noticed that CK's snooty palate is often made fun of by the testers, audience, and CK himself on the shows?
That being said, I also love blogs like Orangette, Simply Recipes, and of course, Serious Eats. I love these blogs for many of the same reasons (the recipes work) and it's good content. Just as in the print world, we the readers decide what is successful and what is not, and generally those who are putting out a quality product will succeed. Sometimes, a beloved and quality magazine, like Gourmet, fails. That's just the marketplace, folks.
I found the comments on CK's personality on AG's site pretty tasteless. As another commenter on AG's site pointed out, perhaps CK has Asperger's or some sort of personality disorder? Whether he does or doesn't, is it any of our business?