Posted by Amanda Marcotte December 10, 2007 in Asides, Food, Technology
Google has entered the online recipe market. (Via the new blog that promises to be enticing, Cogitamus.) It even has a calorie search feature, so you can alert it to the fact that you’re not interested in dishes with 1,500 calories a sitting or whatever. If our Google overlords ever decide to tyrannize us, I suspect most of us will go quietly.
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OK, I have a pineapple that needs eating, let’s try pineapple upside down cake à la Google tonight. I need fattening up for the winter.
Wait, Jerry’s dead? But I just — [nods to self with dull alarm] —
[it registers]
I can’t wait until Google can be implanted into my brain.
one day…google and the federal reseve will merge. WOOT! searchable google money!
and because men are made to help eachother, we will all finally live in peace and harmony.
It even has a calorie search feature, so you can alert it to the fact that you’re not interested in dishes with 1,500 calories a sitting
So, you just program it to give you only dishes with more than 1500 calories per sitting?
I encountered this accidentally while trying my usual technique of entering “recipe” plus the foods I was trying to combine. Which has always yielded good results; I am fearful that this new recipe search will not improve what already existed.
I suspect a trap.
I am in serious trouble. Google scholar was bad enough but recipes. This will only get better with time and more input. I am doomed.
I know it’s jut beta and all, but that’s a pretty pathetic cuisine selection. There’s what, like 7 choices? Bleh.
I read down until I saw “low carb chocolate fudge”, and recoiled in horror. Is nothing sacred any more? I have already made and given away 55 lbs of fudge this month alone and have another 15 lbs to make today…
Louise’s Big Batch Fudge:
3 sticks butter or oleo
1 cup milk
1 teas salt
1/4 cup vanilla
Bring to rolling boil in heaviest huge pot you have, preferably an old fashioned “pressure cooker” and use your heaviest-handled whisk to best “open up” the fudge. Lay out a large cookie sheet to pour the fudge into; if needed, place a hand towel under it as not to scorch your counter top or table! Continue to cook at high heat:
Add 1 2 lb bag of confectionary sugar and mix well.
Add one 8 oz can of dry cocoa and mix well.
Add ANOTHER 2 lb bag of confectionary sugar and mix well.
Stir and cook for 7-8 minutes; should be very hot and boiling when you are done and your arm and shoulder should be ready for an ice pack. Pour immediately onto the cookie sheet. Allow to cool at least 20-30 minutes; cut when cool enough into pieces. I cut 8 rows lengthwise and 12 the other way, making 96 pieces.
“Low Carb Fudge”- BAH HUMBUG!
If? I think we’re going remarkably quietly
BTW, that recipe makes 5 lbs of fudge and I have NO IDEA of the calories per serving. My favorite aunt says that they are free calories, as they involve chocolate…
Louise, I have a much smaller version which seems about the same only you make in the microwave and it only takes 2 minutes.
Use at least a 1.5 quart dish to mix it, and prepare a pan with waxed paper to pour it into
1 pound confectioner sugar
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon vanilla
stir these until partly blended, they will be too dry to fully mix.
add 1/4 pound (1/2 cup, or one stick) butter on top
microwave for 2 minutes on high. Stir vigorously until smooth.
At this point, optionally add 1 cup of chopped nuts, any kind. Mix. Pour into lined pan.
Louise’s Big Batch Fudge
I’ve had orgasms that weren’t as good as just reading that recipe.
[Homer Simpson]
Fuuuuuuuuuuuudggggggggggge
[/Homer Simpson]
Hey, Amanda. Having been lurking and reading here since before you started posting, and fully acknowledging your exalted status as high IMS, don’t go dissin’ on my boy Jerry!
(anyway, he’s not really dead, just resting up for the next tour!)
Samantha Vines, that DOES sound like a modern version of same! And alot easier on the shoulder!!
Tina H, I just made 2 batches (10 lbs’ worth) for some of my husband’s customers that he’s seeing this week- the entire house smells of hot, yummy fudgy goodness! He calls me “Willamina Wonka” this time of year… usually over 100 lbs made and given away.
Far be it from me to go ‘diss’-ing people, but I’ve always held a fondness for the words of Joe Queer:
I hate the Grateful Dead,
their hippie fans are such a waste.
I hate everything about them,
even Jerry’s ugly face.
and that’s why I adore StaticAge…
because I’m a damn jam-band hater.