Monday, December 22, 2008

It’s Christmas! Let’s Ruin a Ham!


Just like Thanksgiving has turkey to screw up with cranberry sauce, Christmas has ham to screw up with a huge assortment of sweet tasting crap that is poured, rubbed, and baked on. Let's explore some of these perversions of the culinary world!

My favorite, the pineapple ham with cherries!
Then there's brown sugar and honey. You know I was at the store the other day and hams were on sale so I was looking through them and they only had two kinds: brown sugar rubbed and honey baked! No other choices! I felt like complaining to the manager.

The list of vomit inducing ham recipes continues:

Some observations about the list above: I LOVE Coca-Cola, but not on my ham. Why don't you reverse the order and have yourself a Ham Coke! Puree some ham and stir it up in some Coke. Enjoy!

Also, the Waldorf sauced Ham: Here's the recipe
-4 pound fully-cooked smoked boneless ham
2 cups apple juice or apple cider
2 inches stick cinnamon
1/2 cup sliced celery
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1 cup chopped apple
1/4 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
2 tablespoons raisins
1 tablespoon brown sugar


Anyone know what that sounds like? An apple pie with ham and celery! Does anyone else see how gross this is. It's gone too far. It's time to stop defiling our ham with these sweet sauces.

Merry Christmas everyone. Thanks for reading! 2009 is going to be a breakout year for the NoSweetMeat club. Join the group, subscribe to the blog, and by all means DON'T EAT SWEET MEAT!

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Rachael Ray crimes against humanity report - Nov. 2008

I'll give Rach (that's what I call her since we're friends) credit where credit is due; she's getting increasingly disgusting. Not her, her recipes. I know she's too busy to write all the recipes, but she still has to sign off on them. So, I imagine she gets a pile of recipes from her writers and as she's thumbing through them she'll actually locked her eyes on something like "Fruit 'n' Nut Couscous Stuffing" and say to herself, "Yummo!" So for that, I blame her. I dare anyone out there to eat said recipe (page 60) and tell me its good. I DARE YOU.
Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for cleaning up your spew.

So, here are the other offending recipes for November:
- Turkey-Cranberry Strudel
- Chicken w Apples, Pears, and Camembert Mashed Potatoes
- Turkey-Tyme Meatloaf Patties w Mashed Sweet Potatoes
- Turkey Cutlets w Herb Gravy and Celery-Apple Salad
- Apple and Date Stuffing
- (the Turkey Monte-Cristo is fine as long as you keep the cranberry sauce at least 9.75' away)
- Pumpkin Potatoe Pie
- Campaign Trail Mix
- Bipartisan Salad

She's had worse months, but still, every recipe mentioned is a crime against humanity.

Hey Rach, call me over for dinner one day. Fix some of these recipes for me. If you actually eat this crap and can keep it down, I'll eat it too (but may not be able to keep it down). I don't think you can do it.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Paula Dean Makes Me Ill

You know Paula Dean? The lady from the food network that puts butter on everything? Well, I'm a big fan of butter. However, I am not a big fan of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv8yEMRDe_w

It's one of those things you wish you could unsee. That video will haunt my dreams.