Every week we bring you our favorite posts from our friends at Serious Eats. This week, can you guess the top 10 most-Googled recipes of 2009? What were people cooking? We have the answer below, plus a hot-looking dish of shrimp tikka masala, a banana peanut butter smoothie, and evidence that Trader Joe's was paying attention in grammar class.
• The Top 10 Most-Googled Recipes of 2009 - Spoiler: The top 3 are chili, meatloaf, and cheesecake.
• Brazil Nuts: The Forgotten Nut - Have you ever seen Brazil nuts outside of a party mix?
• The Crisper Whisperer: Banana Peanut Butter Smoothies - A very good argument against total locavorism; one must have bananas!
• More Evidence That Trader Joe Paid Attention in Grammar Class - Grammar nerds rejoice!
• Dinner Tonight: Shrimp Tikka Masala - This looks like a seriously good supper.
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Comments (5)
haha, I try to eat mostly local, but don't believe in completely rejecting the benefits of modern transportation and bananas are in part to thank for that!
Love the Trader Joe's picture. Sad that so few people are capable of speaking standard, grammatically correct English that is must be noted. Good for whoever made the correction to the checkout line sign.
I made the entire Shrimp Tikka Masala meal, which was featured as "what's for dinner?" in the January issue of Martha Stewart Living. The various parts were delicious but I would never serve the eggplant side dish with the shrimp again. The flavors were not complementary. Just an FYI. The shrimp was REALLY good though, and not very hard either.
The top 3 are some of my favorite foods. MMmm getting hungry looking at the picture.
That picture of the Trader Joe's sign makes me really happy! I studied English in college and find the lack of 'proper grammar' (a debatable idea on its own, but that's for another day) on printed signs irritating. Not because I think everyone needs to speak the same way, but because people are usually ignorant of what they are actually saying.