Folks-
I've never once posted a picture of anything here, but I have ranted about other recipe sites and their tendencies of posting pages of unnecessary information before the recipe to...I dunno...make room for more ads, or maybe increase their search engine ranking, so this comic panel from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal just spoke to me.
Here it is:
This is not a recipe, it's more a notice of my philosophy.
I've noticed, and my youngest has complained, that most recipe sites online will publish a recipe in the following order:
1. A complete biography of the site owner, starting with how their parents met.
2. A complete history of the country of origin of the recipe, starting no later than 1406, and possibly going back to the origin of humanity.
3. A complete biography of the person they got the recipe from, starting with how their grandparents met.
4. How to make the recipe including useless tips and how to eat the resulting food, but missing ingredient proportions.
5. Multiple ads which may or may not relate to cooking (gotta pay for that website!)
6. Product endorsements.
7. The entire, uncondensed Mahabharata and the entire works of Homer, the Bible (NKJV and Good News versions, both), and a few selected works of Shakespeare, and/or Chekhov.
8. The actual recipe, well hidden between ads.
9. Comments from a few people who claim to have made the food in question.
10. More ads, including clickable (you won't believe number 10!)
My philosophy is to instead give you a bit of information about where I got the recipe, why I went for it, and then the recipe itself. Then I stop. I've heard this philosophy called "Keep It Simple, Stupid!"
Need I say more?
How about "You're Welcome!"
