Playing with your Food
How many times did your Mother telling you to quit playing with your food? Chances are, if you did, you didn’t like the food or you were eager to leave the table.
It’s a good thing I ignored my Mother’s warnings, since playing with my food is how some new Homemade Gourmet recipes come about. For most of our mixes, I have dabbled around, added some of this and some of that. Some are good, some are okay, some are down right disgusting. Someone asked me once how I came up with so many 4 meals in 4 minutes recipes. My answer was, “The only ones you see are the ones that taste good, you should have seen the combinations that ended up in the garbage disposal!” The point is if we all only ate the recipe on the label, we would be so limited in our meal choices. For a Pantry Staple to be created, there must be at least 15 recipe cards that support it. Not just any recipe, mind you, it actually had to get good taste test scores. The only way these recipes were created was by playing with the food.
Some recipes are created by Research and Development, but loads of them are created by distributors and customers that were simply playing around with combinations. Of course, everyone’s tastes are different and something that you think is fabulous, other may turn away in disgust. (For more on the topic of Icky Foods, see an earlier blog entry!) The trick in creating new recipes comes in creating a dish that most people will like, understanding that some will say, “Oooo, too spicy for me!” and others will say, “Could you put a little kick in this sucker??”
One of our Directors, Rebecca Gengler, made taco seasoned hamburgers on the grill the other night and then topped them with the Jalapeno Bacon Cheddar Dip as a spread. She called them Cowboy Burgers. I can’t wait to try them.
Do you play with your food?
