If you click here, you'll see that cook's Illustrated (aka America's Test Kitchen, Cook's Country) have decided it's not ok for us bloggers to post their recipes. Even if they can't copyright a list of ingredients, and you write it all up in your own words. Especially if you make modifications to the recipe! God forbid you try to mess with one of their "perfect" recipes! They test each one 100 times and "don't allow modifications." WTFever.
From what I've seen, most cookbook authors are cool with bloggers making and blogging about their recipes. They embrace it, even! I have bought at least 3 cookbooks lately because you guys blog about them, and I think "Hey, I want more--I'm getting the book!" I know others that have done the same thing.
Cook's Illustrated is like Fight Club, but for recipes, I guess. And I also guess they like PR--who doesn't? But guess what? People are talking about them today, except they don't have anything good to say. That's what happens when you have a "team" that scours blogs and makes offending bloggers remove their recipes.
So I'm being proactive and removing this one. If any of you have bookmarked it, please email me and I'll send it to you. Because that's not intent to distribute publicly. It's one friend emailing another friend.
And I'm not doing any more of their recipes. Or on second thought--maybe I will, with modifications, and not name them as a source, hehe. Because they don't want any good things said about them. And you know, it's Fight...I mean Recipe Club and all. shhhh.....
YES! Am I crazy, you ask? Well, maybe, but that's another discussion for another time. (Though I might be going crazy in a minute, because my daughter just told me that the dryer isn't working! Lovely.) Would I willingly heat up the kitchen to make Beef Stroganoff on a hot afternoon? All that boiling water for the noodles, making the house all steamy and uncomfortable...
NO! Because this is all done in one (large) skillet. Yep--the egg noodles cook right along with everything else, in a covered skillet, so there's no big heat up in the kitchen. Nice, right?
This is just good comfort food, no question. And as well as being delicious and comforting, it's so simple to make. My husband asked me to make this one. And he looked at me with those sweet brown eyes and that cute smile...so how could I say no?
I've been given 2 more awards, as well!
LyB at And then I do the dishes has awarded me the "I Love You This Much" award. Have you guys checked out her blog yet? Go, I'll wait. Check it out, add it to your readers, and drool over those photos she teases us with. They're gorgeous! And she is a sweetheart, too.
I'm passing this along to these blogs:
Forgive me and my moronic brain. I can not find the post on my blog where I got this one before and passed it along to five others. So if I repeat someone, I'm sorry. But I guess it means I love you twice as much!
George at Culinary Travels of a Kitchen Goddess
Farida at Farida's Azerbaijani Cookbook
Rita at Mochachocolata Rita
Mrs. Ergul at Mrs. Ergul in the Kitchen
Ben at What's Cooking?
And Sharon at Culinary Adventures of a New Wife has passed along the "E for Excellence Award." Sharon's blog is also full of wonderful recipes and beautiful food shots. Hers is a blog you should bookmark and read regularly!
This award is getting passed along to:
Rachelle at "Mommy? I'm Hungry!"
Deb at B More Sweet
Cookin Panda at Flexitarian Menu
Laura at Hungry and Frozen
Deborah at Taste and Tell
All of these bloggers have the ability to make me laugh and also make me want what they're eating, all the time. Well, every blog I read does that, and you all deserve these awards!
Also, sorry I've been missing in action all week! Summertime, four kids out of school, and holiday four-day-weekends don't leave a lot of time for blogging. But things should get back to normal this coming week. I hope, hehe. Thanks for sticking with me!
Update! Breathe a sigh of relief with me...the dryer isn't broken! My husband checked it--it was unplugged. How does that even happen?
