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Advocate Bad Recipe of the Month
Posted on 7/25/13 at 8:55 am
Posted on 7/25/13 at 8:55 am
This recipe had to beat out entries with multiple uses for cream cheese, jalapenos and bacon.
Nothing like using fresh wholesome ingredients in a recipe, like maybe fresh corn or fresh potatoes, why bother when a can opener is so convenient. Actually, at a recent social function I had a taste of a soup very similar to this using canned crabmeat, they added a tablespoon of Tony's, making it toxic. If only you could buy canned crawfish tails:
Canned Deliciousness
Crawfish Corn Soup
2 lbs peeled crawfish
2 14 oz can creamed corn (low sodium for the health nuts)
2 14 oz cans cream of potato soup
2 12 oz cans low fat evaporated milk
1 can Rotels
Throw it in a pot, heat it up.
I realize that some people are seriously hampered in the cooking skills department, but do you really want to waste $25-30 of crawfish tails on the canned crap?
Next month: Pigs in a blanket (repeat winner)
Nothing like using fresh wholesome ingredients in a recipe, like maybe fresh corn or fresh potatoes, why bother when a can opener is so convenient. Actually, at a recent social function I had a taste of a soup very similar to this using canned crabmeat, they added a tablespoon of Tony's, making it toxic. If only you could buy canned crawfish tails:
Canned Deliciousness
Crawfish Corn Soup
2 lbs peeled crawfish
2 14 oz can creamed corn (low sodium for the health nuts)
2 14 oz cans cream of potato soup
2 12 oz cans low fat evaporated milk
1 can Rotels
Throw it in a pot, heat it up.
I realize that some people are seriously hampered in the cooking skills department, but do you really want to waste $25-30 of crawfish tails on the canned crap?
Next month: Pigs in a blanket (repeat winner)
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Posted on 7/25/13 at 8:58 am to andouille
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2 14 oz can creamed corn (low sodium for the health nuts)
Posted on 7/25/13 at 8:58 am to andouille
I'd eat it, but would much rather use a packet of instant etouffee for the tails.
Posted on 7/25/13 at 9:05 am to andouille
Put that in a crockpot...money.
Posted on 7/25/13 at 9:08 am to andouille
They're just playing to the majority in the market.
Posted on 7/25/13 at 9:17 am to OTIS2
quote:
Put that in a crockpot...money
Counterfeit money.
Posted on 7/25/13 at 9:24 am to andouille
If the Advocate wants to make inroads into the TimesPic's territory, they're gonna need to overhaul that food section. It's a 1950s home-eccy time warp.
Posted on 7/25/13 at 9:27 am to andouille
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This recipe had to beat out entries with multiple uses for cream cheese, jalapenos and bacon.
Don't understand the hate, it's delicious.
Posted on 7/25/13 at 9:29 am to hungryone
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If the Advocate wants to make inroads into the TimesPic's territory, they're gonna need to overhaul that food section. It's a 1950s home-eccy time warp.
Not sure about the 50s, because people still understood the concept of cooking, but I get your drift. It is very old school. It takes BR a while to catch on.
Posted on 7/25/13 at 9:43 am to andouille
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ADVOCATE-TESTED RECIPE
shite, they actually made it in their test kitchen.
Posted on 7/25/13 at 9:50 am to andouille
One of my co-workers put together a Crawfish Corn Soup for an office Christmas party. She asked me to help her, but I had no idea that she was using a bunch of cans of soup when I said yes. (I don't think there was evaporated milk in her recipe). I started getting slightly depressed after opening the first five cans. After can #15 I didn't want anybody else in the office to know I had a hand in it at all.
And guess what? Once it was all said and done, it tasted good. That was kind of depressing, too.
And guess what? Once it was all said and done, it tasted good. That was kind of depressing, too.
Posted on 7/25/13 at 9:52 am to Y.A. Tittle
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Not sure about the 50s, because people still understood the concept of cooking, but I get your drift. It is very old school. It takes BR a while to catch on.
Nah, that recipe is the epitome of 50s home cooking. Betty Crocker reigned supreme, and there was actual cachet in serving prefab items over homemade. Yes, people still remembered how to cook, but it was au courant to reject homemade stuff in favor of TV dinners. They were marketed as easier, faster, more hygenic, and a freedom from kitchen drudgery.
The pendulum has swung in the opposite direction in the intervening sixty years: higher status households now reject the prefab in favor of the homemade. Stuff in a box, can, freezer tray was upwardly mobile back then....kinda like the status implied by things organic, farmer's market, artisanal, etc today.
ETA: if you're interested in American home cooking history, Laura Shapiro's work looks at early and mid 20th century home cooking/eating patterns. LINK /
This post was edited on 7/25/13 at 9:54 am
Posted on 7/25/13 at 9:54 am to hungryone
quote:And for decades beyond the 50's, also. Quick, easy, prepackaged, prepared, ect.
Nah, that recipe is the epitome of 50s home cooking. Betty Crocker reigned supreme, and there was actual cachet in serving prefab items over homemade. Yes, people still remembered how to cook, but it was au courant to reject homemade stuff in favor of TV dinners. They were marketed as easier, faster, more hygenic, and a freedom from kitchen drudgery.
Posted on 7/25/13 at 10:02 am to hungryone
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Nah, that recipe is the epitome of 50s home cooking. Betty Crocker reigned supreme, and there was actual cachet in serving prefab items over homemade. Yes, people still remembered how to cook, but it was au courant to reject homemade stuff in favor of TV dinners. They were marketed as easier, faster, more hygenic, and a freedom from kitchen drudgery.
The 50s is the root of it, that's to be sure.
Posted on 7/25/13 at 10:20 am to Mike da Tigah
Oh, it starts earlier than the 50s. Crisco (solid hydrogenated veg oil) was first marketed in 1911. But highly processed/hydrogenated vegetable oils--mostly used during WWII as industrial lubricants--get absorbed into the mainstream food system in the late 40s-early 50s. The rise of agribusiness goes hand in hand with the increased acceptance and consumption of processed foods.
Back to the OP: I'm not above using a canned soup as a "helper" in a recipe. I just don't get the reliance of multiple canned items in a recipe using relatively expensive seafood. Each of those cans contributes a big dose of sodium--I think the end product would be way too salty for me.
Back to the OP: I'm not above using a canned soup as a "helper" in a recipe. I just don't get the reliance of multiple canned items in a recipe using relatively expensive seafood. Each of those cans contributes a big dose of sodium--I think the end product would be way too salty for me.
Posted on 7/25/13 at 10:30 am to andouille
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Put that in a crockpot...money
Counterfeit money.
Those tails will be like bad check money....BOUNCY
Posted on 7/25/13 at 10:35 am to hungryone
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I'm not above using a canned soup as a "helper" in a recipe.
Neither am I, I love canned beans, when rinsed off they are great in salads, canned tuna, clams, but I stay away from most canned soups and vegetables. But I use canned tomatoes a lot once summer is gone.
I just can't make a recipe using canned ingredients almost exclusively, canned corn is tasteless compared to fresh, potatoes are easy to peal and dice, it takes longer and some skill.
Posted on 7/25/13 at 12:17 pm to hungryone
Considering the average Advocate reader was probably taking a home ec class in 1950, it makes sense.
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