Little do they know
John Salmon will read anything on the Web — with one exception:
Recipes. Does anybody actually use them? Do we really need recipes for cold soups, ingenious uses of beets (yuk!), or yet another way to make cole slaw?
Post a recipe and you lose me forever as a reader. And there are millions like me!
Let’s just hope he doesn’t find this. Or, for that matter, this.
fillyjonk »
12 November 2009 · 2:49 pm
I dearly hope that’s said tongue in cheek. Then again, I deal with sufficient numbers of people who believe that their preferences should be the only options available to all…
If he doesn’t like recipes, I bet the knitting patterns really get him upset.
wamprat »
12 November 2009 · 2:51 pm
Just got a golf cart (free) so am leaving for the lake now. Won’t be at Chester’s tonight, will give Leslie your stuff.
CGHill »
12 November 2009 · 2:58 pm
I put that up mainly because I wanted to prove a point: there’s something here to annoy everyone.
(Free golf carts! They’re prisoners of the links!)
McGehee »
12 November 2009 · 3:27 pm
Guess you’ll have to hunt down Leslie to get all your stuff back.
CGHill »
12 November 2009 · 3:33 pm
[insert Merrie Melodies-ish reference to duck and/or rabbit season here]
Kay Dennison »
12 November 2009 · 4:28 pm
LOL I like beets!!! And I read anything that my friends post!
CGHill »
12 November 2009 · 5:19 pm
I think most of the readership has caught on to the fact that darn near anything might show up here. I mean, I seldom even get complaints about Hello Kitty. (Then again, as a cultural icon, she means rather a lot more than, say, the Jonas Brothers.)
McGehee »
12 November 2009 · 9:18 pm
I’m still astonished that Jonas Brothers isn’t one of those few investment firms that didn’t take bailout money.
Andrea Harris »
12 November 2009 · 10:45 pm
I look for recipes online all the time. It’s much easier than dealing with huge cookbooks that just get in the way in the kitchen.
Anyway, I do this crazy thing where, if someone posts on something I’m not interested in, I just skip that post and go to the next one, I don’t disavow the entire blog. I’m a nutter, I know!
Deborah »
13 November 2009 · 12:35 am
Oh my goodness. I read recipes all the time. I’m a newspaper junkie, and one of the first things I do is look for regional recipes. Recently my son (he’s 39) sent me a recipe for Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Squares—obviously he was hinting. He has a wife, but she is a freestyle cook and does not especially like following precise recipes. Perhaps John Salmon is a freestyle cook also.
Next to Devonshire Cream, Dulce de Leche is the second-best thing man ever did with the cow.
For those who are interested: http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/02/dulce-de-leche-cheesecake-squares/
Donna B. »
13 November 2009 · 1:18 am
Reading recipes keeps me out of the kitchen. After I’ve researched on the web all possible variations of whatever it was I thought I wanted to cook, I’m too tired to cook.
I forwarded the cheesecake bar recipe to my all my daughters and hope I get some when I visit!
Lynn »
13 November 2009 · 7:35 am
To answer his question, yes, I do actually use recipes I’ve found online. I have even posted recipes a couple of times but John still reads my blog. Maybe I should start a recipe of the week feature and see what happens.
Francis W. Porretto »
13 November 2009 · 2:31 pm
Bah! Recipes are for people too squeamish to eat their kills in the field, raw, the way God intended!
But seriously, life’s too short, and good material on the Web too sparse, to go on as Mr. Salmon has. Why allow yourself to be irritated by a recipe, when a few mouse clicks could bring you to any number of 4DBP* sites? I mean, if you’re going to allow yourself to get cheesed off — really, seriously, high-powered-rifle-to-the-rooftop cheesed off — by something on the Web, you should select a truly worthy target. One that might fire back. It’s not really sporting, otherwise.
Don’t forget the Thermos® of coffee and the fresh package of double-stuff Oreos for that languorous interval before the SWAT team arrives.
*”four-digit blood pressure”
John Salmon »
14 November 2009 · 9:21 am
Fillyjonk-I love knitting patterns-unless they’re edible.
canadienne »
15 November 2009 · 7:55 pm
Fillyjonk, make sure you don’t include a pattern for Debbie New’s liquorice socks (published in Socks, Socks, Socks, XRX’s book from their sock comptetition.) Edible knitting! (couldn’t find a good link. Also, I probably don’t want to know about other forms of edible knitting.) Apparently there is also ramen knitting.
I read this particular blog precisely because almost anything might show up, although I have noticed that shoes, music information, clever popular culture references, clever pun titles, and photographs of ladies with very long legs are fairly regular.
CGHill »
15 November 2009 · 8:54 pm
To the extent that anything here is “fairly regular,” anyway. Lack of focus, I suppose, is what keeps me going.
canadienne »
15 November 2009 · 9:22 pm
Hey, I’m ADD, lack of focus is my life.
And BTW the ice cream recipe sounds fabulous.