Cooks.com sucks! I didn’t realize the extent of the suckage until last weekend, when I attempted to make a chocolate rice pudding recipe they had. It was supposed to take 20 minutes. I cooked it for an hour and it was still crunchy with underdone rice. I should’ve known better than to try to cook rice with no lid, but I was just following the directions! I ended up eating a couple spoonfuls and throwing the rest away.
Did she really make a macaroni salad with a can of sweetened condensed milk and a cup of sugar and a pint of mayonnaise. Stirring well to make sure its “corporated”. Ewww. It looks like macaroni soup. :eek:
What makes me giggle is the running calorie counter.
I am not above using prepared sauces as an ingredient. To be clear here, the recipe in question called for one bottle of Heinz 57. As seasoning. For 1 cup of beans, a pound of ground beef, and a minimal amount of vegetables. (Celery and mushroom, I think?)
When I was a kid I’d gaze at the picture on the side of the can of evaporated milk. There was always a picture of evaporated milk being poured into a meatloaf. It fascinated me. I thought it must taste heavenly. Today, I can’t figure out why, of all possible food ingredients, you’d add something like evaporated milk to a dish like meatloaf, unless it was to ensure that Jews couldn’t eat your otherwise innocuous product.
Oops, sorry for the derailment.
So, I’ve been perusing Cooks.com to see what all the fuss is about. I’ve never used it because the layout annoys me. And that’s another thing that makes its popularity utterly baffling, the website is just plain fugly and there’s no way to eliminate items from your search. And no pictures! If I’ve never made something before, I’d like to know what I’m aiming for.
And now I understand.
I’m adding my voice to the chorus of “What the hell is cooks.com’s obsession with Ritz crackers?” They’re everywhere! Also, most of the recipes look like they were culled from the desserts section of Kraft or Nabisco or whatever’s website, crumpled up by a Cheetos residue-covered hand, lost between the couch cushions for fifteen years, found by the dog who used it as a chew toy, before being run through Babelfish and then posted as an entree.
I wasn’t familiar with the place but after a quick look, I see what you all mean.
This one was my favorite
i used crumbled ritz crackers instead of panko because it’s cheaper and butterier.
That’s perfect - exactly everything that’s wrong with cooks.com.
Pulling this out of the air, but I think cooks.com is an ancient website that probably started with the dial up bulletin boards. I remember get dos based recipes from this site when sorting recipes was one of the only useful things you could do with a computer. So it has massive authority because of its age, and gets ranking. I go directly to epicurious.com, and never lack for impressive recipes.
This is hilarious. I especially love how the whipped topping isn’t even mentioned in the list of ingredients. And what the heck do you do with the “1 can Eagle Brand milk”??
You regard it. Patriotically.
ETA - but what do you even come out with? Buttery cracker crust with… cool whip? Are you sure this isn’t a recipe for a pie meant to be thrown in somebody’s face, Three Stooges style?
Here’s a good one from FootNetwork.com, with these ingredients :
- 1/2 pound sliced easy-melt cheese (recommended: Velveeta)
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup chopped nuts
- 2 (16-ounce) boxes confectioners’ sugar
Yeah, but we’re talking about Paula Deen, here. This is the woman who deep-fried butter.
(OK, so there’s a little cream cheese mixed in, but they’re still called “Fried Butter Balls,” for heaven’s sake.)
Well, that’s what you get for looking to the Foot Network for your recipe needs.
Don’t be dissin’ Alton Brown now. Elie Kreiger’s not bad either.
I actually have a GOOD Ritz cracker recipe. It’s basically fried fish sticks using the crackers and egg as breading.
I’m astonished that you people were able to find several cooks.com recipes that don’t include ketchup!
BTW, to exclude cooks.com from your googling, make -site:cooks.com one of your search terms. E.g. “chili recipe -site:cooks.com”
Foot, dude. Foot.
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