| Cooking Light amount<\/th>\n | Actual Cuisine amount<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n |
|---|---|
| 2 tsp. butter<\/td>\n | 3 ½ tbsp. butter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1 tbsp. balsamic vinegar<\/td>\n | 1 tbsp. balsamic vinegar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1 endive, washed and torn<\/td>\n | 1 endive, washed and torn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1 egg white<\/td>\n | 3 eggs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| ¼ cup sugar<\/td>\n | 1 ¼ cups sugar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| ½ tsp. capers<\/td>\n | ½ tsp. capers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 4 cups chopped chicken<\/td>\n | 2 chickens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n I stumbled across the secret one evening while making a recipe that called for “1\/8 cup cheddar cheese,” a quantity as wildly improbable as “17 ounces of black pepper.” “One cup” is the fundamental, atomic unit of shredded cheese — did the editors of Cooking Light<\/em> think we would not know this?<\/p>\n Another thing you need to increase by an order of magnitude is the recipies’ cooking time for anything that involves meat. Maybe the guys who write Cooking Light<\/em> are all vegans and have to guestimate on matters of carnivory or something, but the directions are always, like<\/p>\n Add ginger, minced lemongrass, garlic to pan and saute until browned. Add soy sauce mixture, cook for 3 minutes on medium-high heat. Add raw chicken, cook for an additional 30 seconds stirring frequently, serve over rice.<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I know that you are supposed to increase cooking times at high altitudes, so I can only assume that these recipes were field-tested by a race of svelte merfolk dwelling on the floor of the Pacific.<\/p>\n I will say that I have lost a considerable amount of weight using Cooking Light’s<\/em> recipes. Eating undercooked pork three days a week will do that to a guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Queen and I subscribed to Cooking Light magazine last year. Great recipes, as long as you’re aware of the algorithm they use to encrypt them and can translate them back into Actual Cuisine. For those not in the know, here’s the secret: before you begin, run your finger down the list of ingredients and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |