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I should start saying “secret recipe”.
If you read the boards, you’ll know I’m a foodie. I’m willing to go the extra mile to make something taste terrific. I once won a chili cookoff here at work using a recipe from America’s Test Kitchen for their “Texas Red” chili. Folks asked for the recipe, and I obliged, but as soon as they found out that I toasted whole dried chiles and cumin seed and ground them up, and used bitter dried cocoa and beef shoulder and beer and bacon . . . most said, “Hell, I’m not going to do all that!” That happens a lot. Next time, I’ll just save myself the hassle and say it’s a secret recipe.
The secret ingredient was
SPAM!
Both spellings are accepted (which surprised me too.)
I made a jambalaya so good that my friend pestered me for the recipe so forcefully I cracked, I rattled off the ingredients that I’d used that time and the procedure, and he was busy jotting down notes and asking pertanent questions.
The funny thing is he is a 45 year old bachelor who can cook one thing, toast. He eats out every single meal and I do not see him changing his ways, weird.
You know, soylent green is people, SHAKES.