What they about death and taxes also holds true for the Wednesday Chef. It's been a while since I looked in, but the blog rolls on, doing what the Wednesday Chef does. Unfortunately, that means purporting to cook one receipt or another from a prominent figure in the food world, making major substitutions with ingredients and technique, and then passing judgment on the recipe.
A receipt from Molly O'Neill old enough for third grade was the victim this time, Marjoram-and-Yogurt-Baked Striped Bass. Unfortunately, not all the Wed. Chef hoped for:
You know what's disappointing? Clipping a recipe Nine Whole Years Ago
(9!), saving it meticulously for Just The Right Occasion, finally
getting to That Blessed Moment, and realizing that the recipe is A
Total Dud. D. U. D.
The Wed. Chef had high hopes, " it involved whole fish, Greek yogurt, red lentils, and marjoram, roasted in the oven. I know! Does that sound good, or what? Third of all, I'd been saving it for nine years. That's practically a third of my life! That number alone should have guaranteed deliciousness, I think."
but unfortch, it failed to deliver. The fish tasted like nothing, and the lentil accompaniment looked like baby (sic) poop.
But you know what else is disappointing? Reading a blog post about a receipt for roasted striped bass and discovering that no striped bass were harmed in the writing of this post:
But instead, after smearing yogurt all over a bunch of fish (red snapper because there was no striped bass to be found).
If it's a waste of time for Wed. Chef to write posts like this, it's probably a waste of time for me to read them, and more still for me to write about posts like this, and for you to read them, but I continue to be unable to fathom this business, which has been the Wed. Chef M.O. for years.
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I can't believe I'm wasting my time writing a comment about a post about how COD wasted his time reading a post from another blog which was a waste of time. Comments on this comment welcome.
Posted by: Rose's Lime | Tuesday, 22 September 2009 at 04:40 PM
So, you are under 30 years of age? Oh my, what a young Cod with so many (depleting at an expontential rate) fish in the sea!
Posted by: Marco | Tuesday, 22 September 2009 at 08:18 PM
This is a classic case of " over fished" and stocks are dwindling !
Posted by: Chef de Partie | Wednesday, 23 September 2009 at 08:21 AM
Worried about you -- our craving for punishment seems to be tied to the same timetable. I looked in and had the same reaction. Snapper is that crapfish they throw onto college cafeteria steam tables. Striped bass? Not even a distant cousin. I'm no fan of Molly's, but still.
Guess we should all be crowdsourcing or hiveminding or whatever DI/DO dictates, tho.
Posted by: gastropoda | Wednesday, 23 September 2009 at 05:50 PM
oops, wrong person, wrong age, not enough coffee.
Posted by: Marco | Thursday, 24 September 2009 at 09:27 AM
I'm dumbstruck by that weird poster for "The Snapper". Some U.S. marketing exec managed to simultaneously sanitize / sex up a rather gritty, grungy, hilarious Dublin movie.
Posted by: Skeen | Thursday, 24 September 2009 at 11:48 PM
total northern state human
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Posted by: coltoncrum | Monday, 19 October 2009 at 02:47 AM