Thanks to the Twitter procrastination pipe and Ed Charles, I recently became aware of the 4 Ingredients cookbook and associated television show. After the unshakable rage and bewilderment had subsided on my first viewing, I realised that it should be me profiting from people’s inability to not only cook but select appropriate means of learning to do so, rather than a pair of nasal blondes from the Sunshine Coast.
Their recipes seem thoroughly random; the sort of thing that a 6 year old would concoct to impress a parent on their birthday, picking ingredients from what was at hand in the average middle class fridge and combining with gay abandon. Yoghurt, cornflakes and chicken, together at last.
How could the public be so easily duped?
So I present to you the 4 Ingredients recipe generator.
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Addendum: Sorry, I mixed up Ed Thomas with Ed Charles
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Authentic Mexican baked beans with strawberry yoghurt; African inspired skinless turkey breast with fish fingers; Moroccan-spiced bacon with Minties – hours of fun for all the family!
The sad thing is that the first recipe that I tried actually sounded delicious. As follows.
Authentic boiled potato with champagne
Ingredients:
500 grams of boiled potato
3 tablespoons of champagne
3 tablespoons of butter
3 tablespoons of parsley
1.Par-boil the boiled potato, champagne, butter and the parsley
2. Roast for an hour.
Phil, that’s gold.
Why did I get cool whip as an ingredient in my first three recipes?
Then a mega umami recipe for my fourth? Mmmm double Gravox.
500 grams of tinned mushroom soup
3 tablespoons of Gravox
3 tablespoons of Gravox
3 tablespoons of parsley
1.Roast the tinned mushroom soup, Gravox, Gravox and the parsley
2. Par-boil for an hour.
Seriiously WTF?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lich59xsjik
Hock – The repetition is because my randomiser is slack. As for getting cool hwhip three times in a row, that is some sort of sign.
I was more concerned that the “recipenerator” had some sort of trojan ability and knew about my trashy diet via my googling.
Anyway I am off to whip up some “Easy lamb chops with cocoa pops”.
It’s a very gourmet recipe….extra virgin olive oil? I believe they stock that shit at pharmacies.
My favourite is my sister’s recipe’s she wrote when she was 15 years old.
Sweetcorn
1. open tin with can opener.
2. Tip contents into pan.
3. Stir with wooden spoon until warm
4. Serve on plate
You mean Charles not Thomas – sorry, I don’t usually edit the interweb.
Sorry, Ed. I think that’s the second time I’ve done that. Amended.
How wonderful! Five gold stars and a Gravox scratch-n-sniff sticker for you, Phil.
standing ovation, over excited pompous clapping, Phil Less this is your finest work!
“African-inspired Mars Bars with parmesan cheese”
he he he he he he he he he he he
I have only seen one episode which gave their top four tips for how to raise children. I thought it was hilarious – I wondered whether the producers were being satiric (clearly the two women aren’t…..)
Awesome. I found a bug in your code, though:
Authentic skinless chicken breast with salt
Ingredients:
* 1800 grams of skinless chicken breast
* 3 tablespoons of salt
* 2 tablespoons of Tim Tams
* 3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
1.Boil the skinless chicken breast, salt, Tim Tams and the extra virgin olive oil
2. undefined for an hour.
Serves 4.
But maybe “undefined for an hour” was deliberate.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Thank god. This is pure gold – brilliant.
LOL This is so wonderful
Mmm Yummy…
Middle Eastern boiled potato with strawberry yoghurt — Hurl!
It was all very funny until
Mediterranean pork chops with hoisin sauce
Ingredients:
400 grams of pork chops
3 tablespoons of hoisin sauce
5 tablespoons of pine nuts
3 tablespoons of minced garlic
1.Marinate the pork chops, hoisin sauce, pine nuts and the minced garlic
2. Microwave for an hour.
Serves 4.
which sounds delicious a bit of tweaking an im thinking Hmm that could actually
work. must be drinking too much…
Hahah this is so great. I recoil in horror whenever I see that book on the shelves.
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