Stupid Recipes

[awbrig]

my favorite from epicurious, which also happens to be the #1 recipe when you check the most popular recipe function on the home page, its a bit complex so I will post it in its entirety...

SALTED WATER FOR BOILING

When salting water for cooking, use 1 tablespoon of salt for every 4 quarts of water.

Gourmet

[nightscotsman]

If you like Al Sicherman's style and ideas, go to www.startribune.com every Thursday morning, and click on taste section and look for "tidbits" column.  He also has a column in the paper on Mondays (usually not food-related).

Here in the Twin Cities, we love Al Sicherman, a Minneapolis guy.  He's had some really hard personal knocks, but has always bounced back with a sense of humor.

Thanks for the link snowangel. Great stuff, that Al.

[Batgrrrl]

This is perhaps the most horrifying recipe that I've ever seen.  It's the Tang that takes it to another level.

Bacon Snack Bars

These people make bacon sound bad. They must be stopped. Now.

One of the weird ones I grew up on (along the lines Nightscotsman describes) was my grandmother's caramel corn (very excellent on its own) made not with popcorn but with cheese poofs instead--not the cheese curls, but the bigger ones with more air in them. Now that's a sweet-salty combination that really works! But it sounds awful, I know.

Batgrrrl

[Rachel Perlow]

my favorite from epicurious, which also happens to be the #1 recipe when you check the most popular recipe function on the home page, its a bit complex so I will post it in its entirety...

• SALTED WATER FOR BOILING  
  When salting water for cooking, use 1 tablespoon of salt for every 4 quarts of water.
  Gourmet
  

Copyright violation!!! What's even funnier than this "recipe" are the comments beneath it, here's a link.

[ruthcooks]

Judy - How about Veg-All in lime Jell-O? I grew up in the '50s Midwest where out of every ten "salads" 6 were Jell-O and 3 were cole slaw. The 10th was iceberg lettuce with bottled dressing.

Caramel Knowledge is one of my favorite cookbooks for reading. When I had to put 3/4 of my cookbooks in storage last time I moved, this one came with me.

I'm a non-believer in convenience foods, but I just had to try one of those cracker-as-cookie recipes. I found them surprisingly good, as are the savory ones made with cheese; it must be all that butterfat. They are comprised of:

1) brown sugar, butter, pecans, graham crackers

2)white sugar, butter, almonds, club crackers

3) saltines, cheese, herbs and spices

The club cracker recipe is sweet and a bit salty. I might see if there is such a thing as unsalted or tops-not-salted club crackers if I make them again.

[LaurieA-B]

My favorites that I actually make are the classic "krazy kake" and pudding cake recipes.

nightscotsman, I am not familiar with krazy kake. Is it perhaps the same as "dump cake," in which you dump a box of cake mix, a can of pineapple, a can of cherry pie filling, and a few other things in a pan, and bake them? I have never dared to try this, but many people claim it's delicious. It would probably win first place at a church bake-off.

[nightscotsman]

My favorites that I actually make are the classic "krazy kake" and pudding cake recipes.

nightscotsman, I am not familiar with krazy kake. Is it perhaps the same as "dump cake," in which you dump a box of cake mix, a can of pineapple, a can of cherry pie filling, and a few other things in a pan, and bake them? I have never dared to try this, but many people claim it's delicious. It would probably win first place at a church bake-off.

OK, the dump cake sounds... uh... "interesting", but it's not krazy kake. It has other names as well, but krazy kake contains no eggs or butter. When you look at the recipe, it seems like it would make a chocolate brick, but in fact it produces a moist, dark, rich-tasting chocolate cake. I usually use the version that's in the Cafe Beaujolas cookbook and usually to make cream cheese filled cupcakes. You can whip them up in no time, they're best made the day before you eat them to let the chocolate flavor develop, and everybody loves them.

[torakris]

My favorites that I actually make are the classic "krazy kake" and pudding cake recipes.

nightscotsman, I am not familiar with krazy kake. Is it perhaps the same as "dump cake," in which you dump a box of cake mix, a can of pineapple, a can of cherry pie filling, and a few other things in a pan, and bake them? I have never dared to try this, but many people claim it's delicious. It would probably win first place at a church bake-off.

You have just described one of my favorite cakes in the world!!

A box of chocolate cake mix and a can of cherries= HEAVEN!

[arjay]

I am not making this up: Before the Discovery Channel eliminated its culinary programs in favor of questionable characters remodeling folk's premises while they were not at home, they devoted a "Great Chefs" show to the preparation of Llama medallions served with quinoa.

Can you top this?