And on a sillier note–
Scene: dinner table.
Him: If it were my blog, I wouldn’t link to a recipe I hadn’t tried.
Me: But in this case maybe that’s part of the point. I’m not gonna try it, *you* try it! Or most likely not.
Both of us: reminiscences of the infamous Oobleck Pie thirty years ago from my then-new Joy of Cheesecake book. All the other recipes in it were great; avocado/honey cheesecake with a wheat germ crust was… um… a tad green. And sticky.
But I baked it! My first one was a gift to a friend group–and they took one look at that thing and made me eat the first piece. I made it again for my family. Once.
So here’s the recipe that just the description tonight made his face go all funny before he finally asked, Why??
Peanut butter ketchup cookies.
With apologies to its creator, but, it almost reads like a college psych student’s research paper on internet gullibility.