Suck it Betty Crocker

I love to cook. I love to bake. I love spending time in my kitchen in general. I have a good time. I like trying new things.

I am NOT a huge recipe follower. I'm more of a dumper when cooking (baking I follow cause you have to). So when I choose to follow a recipe to try something new, I expect it to be good.

I made 2 chicken dishes in the last couple of weeks. Followed the recipe to a t. Dotted every I. Dashed every dash of spice. Everything.

They both sucked.

To be fair, both were out of the 1971 edition of Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, not Betty. I'll get to her and her damn ways.

So in conclusion, I'm done making new chicken recipes. Both were long cooking events, both of them sucked. Bad.

For Christmas I got the original 1950 Betty Crocker cookbook. umm...what the hell was Betty doing?

I guess 1950 is when housewives were like "ooohhh look we can get that in a can now"...and now we're in a place where a lot of us (or ok me) are trying to get back to scratch. Trying to get at least some of the processing out of our food.

Betty does have some good recipes (she really does), but...she also has recipes for canned fruit pies. Really? dear lord.

Betty also has tips for how to organize your kitchen shelves and where you should place items! On top of that it tells you how to get your kids to help set the table and do your cooking for you (that I might use).

I guess it's hard to look back at that time and criticize...but I am. Those crazy housewives. No wonder people went ape shit when Julia Child came out. I think that is next on my list of things to get.

I just want some cook books that get back to reality. I will use processed foods (get serious...I'm not that much of a super hero) but I want to know how to do it from scratch. I think it's important apparently.