Friday, April 9, 2010

A Sandwich of Substance

It's serious business. Want to know what's in it? Ha! Did you think it would be that easy? That I'd just tell you? Well, I'll do better than that, I'll show you.

It starts with two boiled baby red potatoes. If you look closely, you'll be able to tell from that picture that I'm an idiot. I completely forgot about my little potatoes boiling in my little pot and they ran out of water. Heh. Fortunately crash hot potatoes are very forgiving and that is what we're making with these. See I had just those two 'tatoes left and I couldn't think of a better use for them. Next you fry some ham. You could use deli ham, but this is leftover Easter ham so it's nice and thick and smokey. Good times. Then you toast a nice, big, soft roll in the same pan. So far so good. Now we fry an egg and saute some onions. At some point the potatoes are going to be almost ready, so you need to pull them out and put some cheese on there. Whatever kind you like, I used cheddar because that's what I had. Pop them back in the oven to melt it and we're ready to assemble. First, a little mustard, because mustard is good with all this stuff. Then, the ham. Now the cheesy potatoes. Then the onion. Next the egg, with the yolk broken and swished around. That's an important step. And now some lettuce. See, not only does lettuce add great texture, but it has such a low calorie content that you actually burn more calories eating it than you get from it. Or so I've been told. Which means when you add lettuce to things you're actually taking calories away. I'm sure there's a study somewhere verifying this, but I'm a busy man and don't have time to look it up.

So there you have it, a big ol' sandwich. The only problem I had was I have no idea what to call it.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

A Question About Blogging Ethics

So I was writing up the recipe for these thin, crispy oatmeal cookies and I had a thought.See, I got the recipe from Cooks Illustrated. I was thinking, you know, I'm not sure how right it is for me to take this thing that other people made with the express purpose of charging for it and just give it away for free. I mean, America's Test Kitchen is the bomb, I want to support them and frankly I don't think I introduce enough new people to them to justify me printing their recipes. Heh.

I know some authors/publishers don't care, several of the cookbooks I've reviewed have given me permission from the get go. But with a company like ATK, where their recipes are their whole deal and they already have them all on a pay website, I'm less sure about whats ethical and whats not. Plus it's not like I have so many readers that I'm taking food out of their mouth, so to speak, but it's something I'm curious about. I'm actually going to contact them and ask for their permission, but I was wondering what the rest of the food blog world thinks:

Is it cool to post unchanged recipes from cookbooks/magazines and such?

If a magazine or cookbook is very old or out of print it doesn't bug me, or if I make some changes and can put "adapted from/inspired by" or some such thing then I'm fine. But when it's the straight up recipe from a current publication, well I'm less sure about that. What do you guys think?

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