Cooking Stuff

My mother was SuperMom. She cooked most everything we ate from scratch, hung the laundry outside on a clothesline because it smelled better than using the dryer, and made a lot of my clothes herself. There were always homemade cookies in a tin in the kitchen, and she was the best Room Mother for all my classes in grade school--no store-bought cupcakes at our class parties! When I got older and didn't need as much of her attentive care, she got a job as cook (and eventually assistant manager) of a preschool, taking care of sixty or seventy other little kids.

When I left home I had some adapting to do. I got used to the smell of clothes dried in the dryer easily enough. I never had the patience to learn to sew, possibly because it wasn't that hard to get Mom to do my sewing and mending on my visits home. However, since having her cater my meals and snacks from hundreds of miles away just wasn't very practical, I did eventually learn to be a pretty good cook.

I have a huge collection of recipes that I've picked up over the years. A lot of them are my mother's. Some are from other family members, some clipped from magazines, newspapers and cookbooks, and a few are my own creations. Here are some of my favorites. Try them, share them, but if you would, please give credit to the creator (or to the person I borrowed it from, as the case may be). Enjoy!

 

Pies

My mother made the world's best pie crust--light, exquisitely flaky, the kind it takes fifty years of practice to get right. I'm working on it, but I'm not there yet. But I know that, with this recipe, it can be done!

Mom's Apple Pie What more can I say?

Mom's Pecan Pie another good one

Deep-Dish Peach Pie not Mom's recipe, but still a classic

Lemon Meringue Pie My mother used to work with a young woman who'd recently gotten married. She wanted to impress her new in-laws, so she paid my mother to make her a lemon meringue pie to take to dinner at their house. She told them she'd made it herself. The pie was a big hit, so every time she visited them after that, she had my mother make her another one. What she didn't count on was that one day, my mother was going to up and move 3,000 miles away. I still wonder what she told her in-laws...selective amnesia, maybe? a sudden allergy to lemons?


Breads

Monkey Bread buttery and wonderful

Date Nut Bread This is one of my all-time favorites of my mother's recipes. Warm, with a little butter...oh, my.

Banana Nut Bread the best excuse I know to let bananas get over-ripe

Applesauce Muffins My Aunt Millie was another great cook, and these muffins were one of my favorites of her recipes.

California Nut Bread I got a bread machine for Christmas a few years back, and so far this is just about my favorite of all the recipes I've tried in it. I keep making hazelnut bread because it's so good, but one of these days I've got to try some other varieties!

Cottage Onion Dill Bread Another great bread machine recipe. This bread will make a bread machine believer out of anyone!


Cakes

German Chocolate Cake These were one of my mother's specialties. They became a small cottage industry when friends, and then friends of friends, started paying her to make these cakes for them.

Fudge Cake simple, elegant, and utterly decadent--maybe the Platonic ideal of chocolate cakes

Mississippi Mud Cake This might be the most rich, gooey, sweet, chocolatey, yummy dessert I've ever tasted.

14-Carat Cake This is the best carrot cake I've ever had.

Applesauce Fruitcake In spite of what you've always heard about fruitcakes, my mother's did seem to get eaten...rather quickly, in fact!

Inexpensive Fruitcake This is my mother-in-law's recipe. I asked her for it after I ate some and I was amazed when I saw the name--it tastes anything but cheap!

No-Bake Fruitcake If you've never met a fruitcake you liked, this one might change your mind.

Classic Cheesecake This is wonderful topped with fresh, unsweetened fruit--strawberries, raspberries, blueberries...

Mom's Shortcake This is a spongecake-type shortcake, not the biscuit kind. You can use the same recipe to make jellyroll.

Pumpkin Roll This is another of my mom's much-in-demand recipes. Some of my cousins didn't think it was Christmas every year until she'd made them one.


Cookies

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies a really good chocolate cookie

Santa's Whiskers Tony's mom's recipe and one of his favorites

Snickerdoodles My aunt Sis used to work summers up in the Sierras, cooking for a California Division of Forestry firefighting crew. These were one of their favorites (and mine!)

Sugar Cookies This is just a good, basic sugar cookie, but to make them really special, use this Cookie Glaze. My mom got this recipe from my first-grade teacher when she was Room Mother for our class. Kids love to paint it on. The colors are bright, and the cookies dry with a hard glaze that stores and travels really well.

This Shortbread recipe is from a cookbook I got in Scotland. The rice flour gives it a perfect crumbly texture.

Thumbprint Cookies These are pretty, and they taste good, too. I always make them when I'm in my annual holiday baking frenzy.

Peanut Butter Cookies another classic

Peanut Blossoms for the chocolate and peanut butter fans

Oatmeal Cookies I like to make these extra-large, and use big Muscat raisins...mmmm!

Platter Cookies thin, chewy, and rich

Coconut-Rum Balls These aren't cooked, so the rum gives them a bit of a kick!

Apple Bars These were always a hit with the preschool kids my mom cooked for.

Butterscotch Cashew Bars I've made these the last couple of holiday seasons and they've been a big hit every time. They're fast and easy and just TOO rich and good!

Pecan Crescent Cookies crumbly and buttery and delicious


Candies

Fudge This comes out unfailingly smooth and creamy.

Popcorn Balls These are another of my mother's specialties. She used to make them on Halloween for the trick-or-treaters (back when people didn't automatically throw out anything not factory-sealed) and the word would spread and kids would come to our house from all over to get them. She made some one year for a Christmas charity bazaar and they were such a hit, the next year they asked her to make a few more...and then more...until she was making 1,200 of them for a three-day bazaar, and they still sold out!

Soda Cracker Toffee Sounds weird, but trust me...

Chocolate Truffles The best homemade ones I've ever had

Pistachio-Cranberry Torrone This recipe was such a hit last Christmas, I had to make more!


Appetizers and Snacks

Boursin This is a delicious spread for crackers, and with all the garlic in it, your guests won't be bothered by vampires for days!

Dried Apricots With Blue Cheese These look pretty on a hors d'oeuvres platter, and they taste wonderful.

Devils on Horseback These are good enough to be dangerous, as someone at one of our parties once discovered. Don't forget those are prunes you're eating!

Curried Stuffed Prunes another creative use of prunes


Side Dishes

Thai Rice Salad with Peanut Dressing This has a wonderful spicy flavor. It's great for potlucks because you can make it ahead of time and it doesn't need reheating.

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes Another vampire-proof dish, but it's not as strong as you'd expect from the amount of garlic. Roasting makes it mild and smooth.

Garry's Home Fries Mmmmm, breakfast on the boat...

Cajun Cornbread Dressing Unusually spicy, and it has the advantage of not needing to be cooked inside the turkey.

Spanish Rice just a good, basic rice that goes great with Mexican food

Indian Smothered Potatoes I found this recipe somewhere online, printed it off, and promptly forgot the source. When I went to use it, I realized that there were a couple of rather important items referred to in the directions that weren't in the ingredients list--the butter and the sugar! So I guessed at the amounts, and if the original, correct recipe was better, then I'd like to taste it, because this version is great!

Grilled Balsamic Onions are a great addition to a summer barbecue


Main Dishes

Forty Clove Garlic Chicken Don't be afraid of the amount of garlic--roasting takes the bite out. I serve this with rice pilaf and some good, chewy French rolls. We spread the roasted garlic cloves on the bread, and dip it in the juices in the bottom of the pan. By the time we're done, the garlic is all gone and we've mopped up every last drop!

Alabama Smoky Barbecued Chicken In spite of the name, this isn't one of my family recipes (although when I made it for them at a Fourth of July barbecue, a lot of them wanted the recipe!). But it is the best barbecued chicken I've ever had!

Pollo Diablo This is a really tasty grilled chicken. It's perfect if you're going out and grilling away from home--on a picnic, camping, out on a boat, wherever. You can mix up the marinade, put everything in a Ziplock bag, and toss is in the cooler. When you're ready to cook, the chicken is ready, too.

Tandoori-Style Chicken This Indian-style grilled chicken is another one that's perfect for a picnic. I've used these two recipes a lot when I was cooking for a crowd out on the Sound on Garry's boat.

Chicken Bulgarian Really tasty, and low fat, even!

Honey Baked Chicken Quick, easy, and wonderful!

Smoked Turkey Breast This goes great on a holiday buffet.

Turkey Enchiladas This recipe comes from Lynne Rossetto Kasper, who hosts The Splendid Table on public radio. She says "This is a great way to use up turkey leftovers—especially a barbecued bird, because the smoky flavor of the meat pairs perfectly with Mexican ingredients." She's right!

Chicken and Beef Tamale Pie Tony says this is the best tamale pie he's had.

Carroll Shelby's Chili The secret ingredient is the cheese, which makes this chili smooth and rich and cuts some (but not all!) of the fire.

Santa Maria Tri-Tip (and All the Fixin's) Santa Maria is a small town in central California that's known for barbecue tri-tip. Tri-tip is an inexpensive cut of beef, but made this way and served with the traditional accompaniments, it's wonderful!

They called it Peachy Pork Picante in the magazine, but we just call it Pork Council Pork, because that's who the recipe comes from. It's so fast and easy and good, we have it at least once a week.

Curried Pork Tenderloin Another fast and easy recipe--comes out juicy and flavorful every time.

Pork Cutlets With Cream Gravy This one is real comfort food!

Florida Barbecued Shrimp spicy-sweet and good...tastes like summer

Chipotle-Lime Shrimp Scampi The spicy butter mixture was originally from a recipe for grilled corn on the cob, but we had a lot left over. So I tried it with shrimp, and it worked even better!

Since I got a bread machine for Christmas and a pizza stone for my birthday, I've been making a lot of homemade pizza. This recipe for Cornmeal Pizza Dough makes a great Chicago-style deep-dish pie. I searched and searched for a recipe for Pizza Sauce that I liked, but I finally had to concoct my own, based loosely on a few I'd found. This one is chunky and thick and has a lot of flavors besides tomato.

Hoppin' John It's a southern American tradition to eat black-eyed peas on New Years Day--it's supposed to bring prosperity and good luck in the new year. This is the recipe I always use.

Jambalaya This is a great recipe for a Cajun classic--spicy and rich and fabulous! It's great with ingredients you can find at most any grocery store, but for a really special meal, get some real, authentic andouille sausage and tasso from Cajun country. CajunGrocer.com is a good place to shop.

Breakfast Casserole Great for an early-morning breakfast or brunch for a crowd, because you can do most of the work ahead of time and just throw it in the oven the morning you want to serve it.

Quiche Lorraine This has to be the best quiche I've ever tasted! The trick, I think, is to use really good, cave-aged Gruyère cheese.


Beverages

Redcoat Rally Punch This punch is tastes wonderful, it's pretty, and it's easy to make, without a blender or a mixer--so it's great for office parties and other events where you don't have a kitchen to work in.

Brandmeir's Baudacious Eggnog My first job after college was at a little school called Cogswell College. Cogswell had its faults, but nobody can say the people there didn't know how to party. This is one of my co-workers recipes that lubricated many an office holiday bash.

Knock-Your-Socks-Off Cider perfect for a cold winter night

Caroline Cogswell's Celebrated Morning Tonic is a spiced coffee liqueur that I've named after a very patient and long-suffering lady who probably could have used a morning tonic like this to jump-start her days. I make it often as a holiday gift. Back in my days at Cogswell College, a bottle of this (or my friend Patte's homemade Amaretto) was always standing next to the office coffee pot (and it came as quite a surprise to me, after I left Cogswell, that most offices don't encourage a morning nip with your coffee!)

 

And here are some other folks' sites that feature a lot of good recipes and cooking info:

Recipes, Recipes, Recipes

FoodieView.com is a recipe search engine that looks through lots and lots of recipe sites at one time

RecipeSource is the new home of SOAR: The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes

RecipeCenter.com

Recipezaar Recipes, discussion boards, tips and tools, and much more

AllRecipes.com "Your home for great recipes, meal ideas, and cooking advice."

The rec.food recipes newsgroup is a great source for recipes of all kinds. You can post a request there and get many, many people's favorite versions of whatever it is you're looking for. The group is moderated, so there's no spam or off-topic chatter.

Chef2Chef.com

Martha Stewart Living Recipe Finder

World Famous Recipes

Mimi's Cyber Kitchen

Teri's Kitchen

The Recipe Box

BellyPleasers.com

Chef Older's World of Food & More

Arielle's Recipe Archives

Connie Q’s Cooking

Yum Yum.com

Recipe Goldmine

CooksRecipes.com Browse thousands of recipes by category, or use the search tool. You'll also find cookery charts and tips, informative articles and more.

The Executive Chef recipes arranged in theme menus--Thanksgiving Day Feast, Fourth of July Barbecue, etc.

Gretchen's Cookbook includes hundreds of recipes from various cuisines, largely from family and community cookbooks from around the world.

Mean Chef is a professional chef with a great collection of spicy, flavorful recipes.

Vernalisa's Party Page recipes and menus for entertaining, plus party planning tips and ideas

The Global Gourmet "We bring you the world on a plate."

Top Secret Recipes on the Web How to make reasonable facsimiles of Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookies, Tony Roma's barbecue sauce, Starbucks Frappuccino, McDonald's Big Mac sauce, Di Saronno Amaretto, Screaming Yellow Zonkers, and dozens more!

cdkitchen.com's Copycat Recipes is another sources of recipes for copying restaurant and store-bought food at home

About.com's Southern U.S. Cuisine page has recipes and a discussion board where you can learn about down home good cookin'

Let's Q! is the F.A.Q. for the alt.food.barbecue newsgroup. Some people consider it the definitive source of wisdom on all that is barbecue (or at least, the source of many passionate and conflicting opinions on the subject).

How They Cook Hawgs in Mississippi is an illustrated guide to barbecuing a whole, full-grown pig (don't forget the shades and the Ole Miss baseball cap!)

The Creole/Cajun Recipe Page

A Cajun Family's Recipe Collection new

NativeTech and NativeChefs.com feature indigenous food and traditional recipes of Native American and First Nations people of North America

Les Saucesnew is a treasury of recipes and techniques for making many classic sauces.

PastryWiz.com Learn how to make your own wedding cake and pastries, get some great recipes, or trade information with other sugar fiends. They also have a searchable job board and a chat room.

CandyMaking.net features recipes from vintage cookbooks--The Art of Candy Making Fully Explained (1915), Candies and BonBons and How To Make Them (1913), and Home Candy Making (1911)

Chai is a drink popular in India and surrounding regions, made from black tea brewed with selected spices and milk. This site features recipes and variations.

LiqueurWeb has recipes for all kinds of liqueurs and cordials.

Liqueur-Making Principles and Techniques Another great site with recipes and advice from a man who has made a lot of the stuff!

It may not be fine eau de vie, but Skittles Vodka newhas its own unique charm.

National Pork Board From the folks who brought you "Pork--the other white meat!"...but in spite of the stupid slogan, they really do have a great site with some good recipes, tips and info!

JoyOfBaking.com new

Heavenly Cookies

 

Cooking and Food References and Resources

The Cook's Thesaurus suggests substitutions for thousands of cooking ingredients, including low-calorie and low-fat alternatives, inexpensive substitutes, and replacements for hard-to-find ethnic ingredients.

Practically Edible newbills itself as "The Web's biggest Food Encyclopedia." It features definitions, tips and tools, a food calendar, recipes, and much more.

The rec.food.cooking newsgroup is a great place to talk about food with a bunch of knowledgeable, passionate, and mostly-sane people. The newsgroup has an unofficial website with recipes, a chat area, and more community resources. The newsgroup F.A.Q. and conversion file has tons of useful information on measurements, ingredients, substitutions and equivalents, techniques, equipment, and much more.

You'll never need to mumble again to hide your cluelessness--not after you visit French Culinary Terms: An Audio Guide to Pronunciation!new

Diana's Desserts features a Conversion Calculatornew that can help you translate all kinds of units of measure. It also tells you the approximate weights of various volume measures of common ingredients.

JoyOfBaking.com's Pan Sizes page has some really handy information--measurements, volume, and advice on using all kinds of baking pans.

Global Gourmet's Culinary Newsletters, Magazines and Journals is an exhaustive list of publications for amateur and professional cooks and food enthusiasts of all sorts.

Newspaper food sections and columns online from all over the U.S.

Cooks Illustrated calls itself "America's Test Kitchens." They take a Consumer Reports-style approach to testing recipes, kitchen tools and techniques. You can get access to the vast amount of information on their website for a small fee (discounted if you also subscribe to the print edition).

Epicurious Magazine "Food for People Who Eat"

eGullet.com Forums Chefs, foodies, and people who just like to cook (and eat!) gather here to discuss their favorite subject.

Chowhound.com is another great message board and online community "for those who live to eat!"

Food & More Food links by the gazillion--collections of recipes, online mailorder catalogs, info on special diets, restaurant reviews, and more!

About.com has a great collection of links to cooking resources--can sizes and equivalents, crockpot conversions, lists of edible flowers, heirloom weights and measures equivalents, and many more.

The Science of Cooking, a site created by San Francisco's famed Exploratorium, explains all sorts of interesting things about food and cooking.

This Food History Timeline chronicles the appearance of all your favorite foods and beverages, from 1872 to the present day.

Cooking Contest Central All you need to know to enter dozens of cooking and recipe competitions

FoodRoutes has a search page to help you find farmers' markets, U-pick farms, farm stands, and other fresh, local food products in your area.

PickYourOwn.org is another place to find pick-it-yourself farms around where you live.

The Bread Machine Digest features articles, reviews, recipes, tips, techniques and more for bread-making made incredibly easy.

Pizzmaking.com's Pizza Making Forum Learn about making pizza at home from folks who are really serious about it!

Cheese.com Not surprisingly, they promise "It's all about cheese!"

Heat in chili peppers is measured in Scoville Heat Units. On the Scoville Scale site you can learn more about the scale, and how your favorite peppers rate.

Chile-Head is a site lovingly maintained by a British chili fan named Graeme. It features recipes, hot sauce reviews, tips on growing peppers, and information on the chemistry and alchemy of capsaicin.

Chillis Galorenew is a site from another pair of British fans of hot stuff (and you thought the Brits all liked their food bland!) They cover chili varieties, cooking with chilis, growing your own, and lots more.

The Chocolate Lovers Page "Your web guide to chocolate since 1994"

The Blue Ocean Institute's Guide to Ocean-Friendly Seafood newwill help you choose species that are harvested in ways that do minimal damage to the environment.

Cindy Renfrow's Culinary & Brewing History Links are geared toward helping those interested in the hands-on exploration of history to find source material. You'll find informative links on culinary history, brewing, online medieval manuscripts, historical re-enactment, and much more.

Since I've had my Seventies Stuff page up I've had a few people write to me because they were planning a seventies theme party and needed suggestions for what kind of food to serve. I had a few ideas, and I got a lot more from the folks on the alt.culture.us.1970s, rec.food.cooking, rec.food.historic, and alt.creative.cooking newsgroups. Here is the Seventies Party Foods List I compiled from all their input.

Don't call TasteSpotting "food porn." Sure, it features lots of really pretty pictures of food and things food-related--but the idea here is to highlight great food links, and serve as a visual portal to amazingly delicious posts on the web. Now, if you want to see some straight, unadulterated, unashamed food porn, check out the flickr foodporn group!

Food Photography Blog is a collection of articles about the craft, science, business, and art of food photography. They cover things like lighting, styling, specialty techniques, and photography-related philosophy in general. The articles are geared toward food bloggers, beginning photography professionals, and advanced photographic hobbyists.

For gadget freaks, Kitchen Critic reviews anything and everything you might want for your kitchen.

Appliance411.com can help you select, maintain, diagnose and fix problems with your major household appliances

RepairClinic.com is another place to go for appliance parts and free repair help.

 

Places to Buy Stuff

If you love trying out new recipes with exotic ingredients from faraway places, but even the best of your local markets stocks Velveeta in the gourmet cheese section, EthnicGrocer.com may be the lifeline you've been praying for.

King Arthur Flour Company's Baker's Catalogue has all kinds of baking supplies--flours of course, but also an amazing variety of sugars, spices and flavorings, mixes and kits, pans and other tools, appliances, and much more.

Gritlit.com "More Southern food than you can shake a stick at"

CajunGrocer.com is a great place to find authentic Cajun and New Orleans specialties--andouille sausage, crawfish, turducken, chicory coffee, pralines, Mardi Gras king cakes, and lots more. They can ship perishables anywhere in the U.S. and get them to you fresh and tasty.

Penzeys Spices carries a huge variety of high-quality herbs, spices and seasoning blends.

Watkins Inc. has been around since 1868, selling flavorings and spices and gourmet specialty foods, as well as personal care and household products.

LorAnn Oils sells an amazing variety of flavorings, essential oils, and specialty ingredients.

Boyajian carries fine infused olive oils and vinegars, Asian oils, pure citrus oils, natural flavorings, and more.

Rent Mother Nature These folks will connect you with farmers and producers who will "rent" you anything from a cow, to a lobster trap, to a beehive, to a maple tree. They report to you regularly on how things are going, and in the end they send you your share of the season's produce.

Hadley Fruit Orchards does beautiful fruit gift baskets and also sells high-quality dried fruits and other items in bulk.

CheeseSupply.com carries over 700 different kinds of cheese, plus cheese kits, knives, boards, fondue pots, melters, cheese making supplies, and many other cheese accessories.

Cougar Gold is an absolutely delicious sharp white cheese created by the Washington State University Creamery. When they ship it in 30-ounce metal tins, it travels just fine. With McVities Digestive Biscuits and a crisp Washington apple...YUMMMMMMM!

Baker's Cash and Carry The chocoholic's dream...fine chocolate in TEN POUND BRICKS!

Chocosphere Fine Chocolate from 35 World-Class Chocolatiers

CandyDirect.com sells thousands of bulk candy products--everything from Pez to gummi worms to sugarfree chocolate caramel clusters.

Hometown Favorites This online grocery store of the past offers candy, condiments and other food items, including some hard-to-find nostalgic ones and some regional specialties.

Liberty Orchards is the home of Aplets, Cotlets, and other candies made from fresh Washington fruits.

Ifs Ands & Butts This Dallas, Texas shop claims to have the largest retail selection of sodas in the U.S., including nostalgic and regional brands, popular brands in their original formulas, and hard-to-find glass bottles.

RealBeer.com beer of the month clubs, a Rare Beer Store, over 150,000 pages about beer, searchable brewery and pub databases, beer festival and event calendars, and news about beer

Eat Yer Face can sell you a Jell-O mold custom-created in an exact replica of your face (or, as they point out, other body parts...) Mom always said the best gift is the gift of one's self!

BarbecueWood.com sells wood chips and other products and accessories to make your barbecue experiences unique and flavorful.

If you've lost your favorite heirloom cookbook--or made it unusable from too much loving use and too many spatters--OldCookbooks.com may be able to replace it for you.

If you believe they just don't make them like they used to, Vintage Stoves by Stevan Thomas sells "time machines for your kitchen"--restored classic stoves and retro refrigerators for that perfect period look.

Have you used your food processor until the blades are dull as a butter knife? Did you manage to lose that little paddle from your bread machine? Culinary Parts Unlimited can help with replacement parts and accessories for all types and brands of kitchen appliances.

 

Food Humor, Weirdness and Miscellany

The Famine Resistant Home Page "It's not a size but an attitude!"

Food Oddities and Wonders Some of these are very odd indeed.

How to Cook with Lava First, take one erupting volcano...

Cooking With Ed Ed demonstrates how to create such culinary wonders as Crown of Franks, Twinkie Treat, and Aunt Rita May's "Gee-Wiz" Spread.

Grilled Cheese Sandwiches the Benny & Joon Way

Fried Dough Around the World Yes, gobs of greasy, glutinous goo know no national boundaries.

The Inebriated Kitchen is the website for a New York public access TV show "dedicated to the culinary education of the finer Manhattan alcoholic."

The Society for the Protection and Preservation of Fruitcake thinks it's about time we give this holiday tradition (and excellent doorstop) a break.

Who knew there were this many ways to make faux sushi?

Hostess Snack Cake Sushi
Raw Fish and Shredded Coconut
How to Make Sweet Sushi
Crispy Candy Sushi Snacks
Candy Sushi
and more Candy Sushi
Chocolate Sushi
Muffin-Candy Sushi
Hostess Sushi Presented in Engrish (try to overlook the stupid fake Japanese-accented Pidgin English)
Techniques for making dessert sushi
Chocolate Covered Rice Krispie and Dried Fruit Sushi Rolls
Chocolate "Sushi"
Weird Sushi
Any Kid'll Eat This "Raw Fish"
My Patented Cheese Sushi

Or, you can buy it ready-made:

Very Special Sushi
Suedy's Koo-Ki Sushi
Chocolate Sushi

Recipes From the Art of Laze the next best thing to not even bothering

If you want to persuade your S.O. to take you out tonight, tell them you're getting ideas for tonight's menu from The Gallery of Regrettable Foods

...or perhaps Sancho's Museum of Culinary Disasters...

Foods, Most of Them Scary is a collection of strange and wonderful treasures from Cate's Garage Sale Finds that would also help get you off the hook if you really don't feel like cooking

...and, for those nights when going out or even ordering takeout is too much trouble, there's Replica Food.

On the other hand, if you want to be on the bleeding edge of foodie trends, you can get ideas for some artsy, stylish, over-the-top entrées from Chez Louise Menus.

Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974 Yeesh...no wonder people were expected to lose weight on this stuff!

Food Safety Music will keep your toe a-tappin' while it helps you avoid poisoning your family.

Tan Lines for Thanksgiving If you can't be on a beach in Margaritaville this November, this might be the next best thing.

If you're going to play with your food, at least make it look as great as Jim Victor does.

Suicide Food newWeird advertising that features jolly animals going joyfully along to their fate on your plate.

Weird and Different Recipes They aren't kidding.

Utterly Outrageous Recipes™ "This site is dedicated to the weirdest food people actually eat."

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Recipes That Make You Afraid to Go Back in the Kitchen tells us tales of recipes that should never have seen the light of day.

Iowa State University's Tasty Insect Recipes No, I haven't tried any of these--but I'd be very interested in hearing about it if you do!

101 Testicle Recipes & Fun Facts I'm just not going there, not saying another word...

 

John Reitmeier's Cool Site Pick of the Day

 

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This page is dedicated to my mother

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Evelyn Vincent McGhee

July 3, 1919 - January 20, 2001

Thanks, Mom.



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