Sunday, September 19, 2010

Full Disclosure

 Hiding this sort of thing can only lead to trouble, so I must 'fess up. This is a friend of mine's operation, & she asked me to "like" this.

Unlike pink salt fan McArdle, my friend does this for a living (Produces both a product & a service, that is.) So it's perfectly OK to call for fine food at your next SoCal event.

9 comments:

Clever Pseudonym said...

It's not the appreciation of fine food I object to; it's the insufferable, condescending, ignorant way that Megan writes about it.

Anonymous said...

That's because Megan has a way of describing common recipes as though her family invented them, or as though she knows how to make simple dishes like pancakes or eggs or bacon properly. Cooking is this wonderfully creative, diverse activity, and she turns it into something small and petty.

Anonymous said...

see: her recipe for scrambled eggs

Anonymous said...

oh right. eggses

http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/005630.html

Clever Pseudonym said...

She's like that obnoxious lady twit from Posh Nosh. Her recipes are overly-complicated when they needn't be and bland and simplified where they could be flavorful and interesting.

I can vaguely recall Megan posting a recipe for marinara sauce, scolding her readers for using the jarred variety. Her recipe was more bland than Ragu.

M. Bouffant said...

Criminy, I think I remember a "how to make pancakes" one. Oh, my once-beautiful mind.

Anonymous said...

But...but...her cucumber sandwich with herbed cream cheese recipe?!?!

Anonymous said...

"condescending, ignorant" is perfect. She needs to be a snobby foodie to fit in with her peers, but she doesn't actually know much about food.

I like how in the scrambled egg post she brags about saving money by making yogurt at home, and being thrifty using chicken carcasses to make soup. Then she recommends you use a bag of mixed, prechopped vegetables and store bought sauce in her stir fry recipe.

"Divide into portions. Don't ask me "how big"?--don't you know how much you eat? But generally, about 6-8 ounces." The tone of this line totally reminds me of Herb's Cooking for One: http://drboli.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/cooking-for-one/

Clever Pseudonym said...

M. - you can repair the damage done from Megan's pancake recipe by revisiting Susan's fabulous take-down of it.

Bonus - after superbly pointing out everything that was wrong with the recipe, one of McMeg's knights in shining armor shows up to defend her by claiming Susan is just jealous because Megs is the bees knees. Or something.