recipe thieves beware
Cooks have a reputation for being superstitious to the point of paranoia. Reveal any recipe at your own risk: you could end up at a dinner party 3 months later eating the dish prepared with that same recipe. It might even taste better than you ever made it, all of the guests would be raving, and the hostess with the mostest would pass it off as her own. Can you imagine? The chutzpah!
I had dinner at the home of one of my fairy godmothers not too long ago. She prepared an amuse bouche for all of us — a delightful chilled cucumber soup. I asked her about the ingredients:
Me: “Is there cream in here?”
Fairy Godmother: “No.”
Me: “Is there yogurt?”
FGM: “No.”
Me: “That’s so strange — I’m amazed that it could have such a creamy taste.”
FGM: “Oh…well, I did add some sour cream.”
If you ask me, sour cream falls under the cream category. I understand that everyone wants to be the secretive and mysterious chef, the one who all the others want to emulate. Don’t worry — no one could ever even aspire to your culinary mastery, because no one knows what the hell you add to your soups and sauces to make them so delicious. Why do you have to be so sneaky?
My fairy godmother left me no choice but to creep into her tree house after grilling up last week’s carne asada to steal her recipe.
amuse bouche;pretty sure it's French for "amuse the douche"
Cucumber Shooters
1 bunch of cucumbers
A good amount of sour cream
1 pinch of something salty –- ingredient may or may not be salt
6 ½ tbsp of wouldn’t you like to know
A splash or so of vinegar
Preparation: Cook it until it looks perfect, chill, and voila!
Ssshhh! Don’t tell her I gave you the recipe: it’s supposed to be a secret.
Photo Credit: the wandering eater
Delightfully cutting article! If I wasn’t so lazy, I’d go out and fail miserably trying to make the dish.
um, so what does douche mean?
I seem to be missing that page in my English/French dictionary. So I will never know.