This thread: http://thisweekfordinner.com/2008/11/11/call-for-recipes-wor st-recipes-ever/
... is absolutely priceless! And you thought CM was bad... these are mind boggling.
Make sure you read the comments below where everyone drags out the most horrible recipes imaginable!
davidt4,
Jan 1, 12:50am
That's fantastic kirinesha. What a find! My prize goes to this one:
Horseradish Salad 1 Lime jello 1 c Nuts, finely chopped 2 c Boiling water 1/4 ts Salt 1 cn Pimento, small 1 Lemon jello 8 oz Cream cheese 1 cn Crushed pineapple, w/juice 1 May substitute cottage cheese 1 cn Sweetened condensed milk 3 tb Horseradish, moist 3 tb Lemon juice
nala2,
Jan 1, 1:36am
I think that the "Food in a Minute"advert before TV1 has a lot to answer for. They had a pizza topped with potato chips one time, and I only see it because I watch the news, before somebody questions my programme watching.
uli,
Jan 1, 1:52am
I am sure buzzy will do that for dinner straight away davidt4 :)
uli,
Jan 1, 1:56am
Well I was advised that all kiwi kids (and many males) love chip sandwiches.
Now since I never even knew something like that existed I was told how you make them: Go down to the fish and chip shop and get a big bag of hot chips, white bread and margerine (butter won't work so I am told - not sure why though).
Rush home (by car preferably), margerine the bread, put hot chips between two slices, add tomato ketchup and eat.
Yummyyy (so I am told) ...
buzzy110,
Jan 1, 2:12am
Oh you have just described the quintessential Chip Butte (the 'u' is pronounced 'oo' as in cook). They don't work with Vogels or wholemeal breads and butter does work. You can even eat them without the ketchup. In fact just plain slabs of melting butter dripping through the bread and your fingers is best. Lots of salt though.
However, I am going to make the concoction David posted as soon as I can. I have guests coming around for after dinner drinks. I wonder if they'd want that with potato chip pizza. "definately devine".
davidt4,
Jan 1, 2:41am
Didn't that infamous Food in a Minute "pizza" have potato pompoms or something like that on top? Or am I confusing it with some other delicious invention?
kirinesha,
Jan 1, 3:59am
They must have cringed having to "invent" dishes like that to use the fabulous products of their proud sponsors. I think I even read an article about her extreme discomfort level with the quality of the ensuing recipes, prompting her to stop doing the programme.
momo21,
Jan 1, 4:47am
The ultimate banana split chocolate fudge sauce:
1 can CM half cup chocolate chips two tablespoons smooth peanut butter
Melt all together over a very low heat and pour over bananas, ice cream and top with chopped nuts. This sauce is the best you'll ever taste. Add more chocolate for a more fudgy chocolaty thicker sauce. Add milk or cream to loosen it up.
davidt4,
Jan 1, 4:59am
That sounds like something that Elvis Presley might have invented.
nala2,
Jan 1, 5:06am
Yes --I saw the potato Pom pom one but she said when interviewed about the series that the "Potato chip Pizza" was the absolute low point. No argument there.
davidt4,
Jan 1, 5:12am
Yes you're right. Taking a break from the endless garden watering I found this:
It was a baked bean and potato crisp pizza, the pom poms were on a cottage pie.
buzzy110,
Jan 1, 5:36am
You are so funny.
uli,
Jan 1, 6:54am
hmmm - the herald wouldn't let me use that link davidt4. It always reverts to their homepage ...
davidt4,
Jan 1, 6:58am
Try searching the Herald home page for Gofton, or just do a Google search for Gofton + pizza.
bedazzledjewels,
Jan 1, 7:21am
Oh, I remember the poms poms - looked really flash and impressed the kids too! OMG!
uli,
Jan 1, 8:05am
Yep - found it:
"... The former chef says her replacement doesn't need cooking or television training, but must be happy to cook with a can of tomato soup. "They've got to love cooking for middle New Zealand _ no pre-conceived ideas about cooking with pesto and sun-dried tomatoes, " she said. "It's not always what you want to do or what you might like to eat personally. " Gofton says the hardest thing is making meals from the sometimes incompatible ingredients advertisers put forward for promotion. "It's like a jigsaw puzzle. " The advertorial format has produced some interesting recipes over the years _ most famously the baked beans and chip pizza... . "
So that is what we do here on the recipe board: "cooking for middle New Zealand" - what an interesting expression (maybe just for me - you all might be used to these english sayings LOL).
davidt4,
Jan 1, 10:16am
"Middle New Zealand" - a polite euphemism for "yokels".
uli,
Jan 1, 8:02pm
Well - as you know english is my second language so I googled "yokel definition" ... OMG! Nah nah - we don't have "naive or gullible inhabitants of a rural area or small town" here. Wiki even says: Yokel is a derogatory term referring to the stereotype of unsophisticated country people.
I think you must have gotten that wrong davidt4 - we are all very sophisticated (note to self to look that one up too, just in case) here, now go and put some more condensed milk into your coffee this morning, so there is more cream for me :)
indy95,
Jan 1, 9:50pm
Davidt4, it appears you havesecretly overindulged on CM or perhaps the lovely dip so dear to the hearts of so many " middle New Zealanders ", myself included. I can think of no other reason why you would suddenly resort to hurling insults at your fellow posters. Yokels are we ? I think not !
Uli, I think the time has come for a severe reprimand to be issued and since you are currently TM Recipes expert in the field I respectfully request that you do so forthwith. Thank you in advance.
buzzy110,
Jan 1, 10:37pm
Maybe as punishment we could request thatdavidt4 consume 3 cans of CM and 1 tin of Mr Cheese in one setting. That'll learn 'er for lumping us Village Idiots in with the yokels. We have our pride. Yokels look up to the Village idiots. Village Idiots have their own union you know?
When she has cleaned out her system from every orifice she will be able to think and see much more clearly.
indy95,
Jan 1, 10:53pm
No, buzzy110, I was not aware of the existence of that union and I think your idea for punishment is excellent and highly appropriate in this situation. Whether it will have the desired effect remains to be seen.
buzzy110,
Jan 1, 11:26pm
Oh the Village Idiot Union is easy to find. All a wannabe Village Idiot has to do is find their way into this thread and display a capacity for humour, whether by adding a post of his/her own or merely appreciating the efforts of others.
Be warned though, you will be consigned to the lower ranked Yokel Outcasts, if you complain, whinge, genuinely cannot see the joke and failto display any sense of humour. Schoolmarms, who want to tell everyone off, and the popular girls, are usually found lumped in with the Yokel Outcasts.
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