There is actual fun in the holiday season. At least for some of us.
For instance, I enjoy checking out year end surveys of things we have done over the past year. Those are still a couple weeks away, but there are similar things starting to come out.
I noticed a story online about the most searched recipes for Thanksgiving dinner. With the American Thanksgiving looming, people have been busily making plans for dinner… and searching out recipes online.
Some I can totally understand. Every time I cook a turkey, I have to check a recipe because I can never remember how many minutes per pound you are supposed to allow. Not that I actually follow it, but it does give you a rough idea of how long that thing has to stay in the oven.
And I will admit to having a recipe for a mashed potato casserole that is stuck to my fridge. We tried it one year, the family liked it, so it got stuck on the fridge the following year after I spent several hours trying to find where I had hidden it from myself the previous year. It is not allowed to be touched, although I also have secret copies of it tucked elsewhere… just in case of overzealous cleaning frenzies.
Anyway… I was looking at the list of most searched recipes that people had been looking for in the U.S. in time for their Thanksgiving. As I say some made perfect sense. Others… not so much.
In several area the most searched recipe was for… salad. Yep. Salad. I know cooking can be a challenge for some, but do we really need a recipe for salad. If you’re making your own dressing, I can see that. Or maybe you’re trying to recreate as specific pile of raw veggies you saw somewhere else.
But isn’t that pretty much the recipe? Pile raw stuff in bowl. Done.
I’m going to have to check into this further. Maybe I need to up my salad game.
