Make a Meal of Cheese

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I have gazed in horrified wonder at this...thing...for many years, since I first stumbled across it. One day I promise myself that in the name of science and exploration I'm gonna put it together.

It raises several questions. Has anybody, anywhere, ever put this shit together thinking it was an exciting meal idea? If I cook it and we eat it, will me and Mrs Vague die? Was everybody in 70s Britain ripped to the tits on gin and tonic all the time? And is this the worst recipe ever published in a professional context?

I'm saying, EVEN LJ WOULD KNOW THIS WAS A TERRIBLE FUCKING IDEA.

whoa

where from? a cookbook or a magazine?

from a 1973 book published by the "Cheese Information Service" altho the possibility that it's some kind of Vegan black ops has occurred to me.

You can pick up a copy of this book at 95% of car boot sales, btw. I think it was probly distributed by milkmen.

This probly merits a thread about how 70s cookbooks have the most beautiful photography of all time, but nothing in them that you'd wanna put anywhere near your mouth.

I heard the Cheese Information Service had serious beef with the Egg Marketing Board.

The classic 70's UK curry - curry powder, sultanas (of course), chutney, and beef OR chicken OR fish OR cheese...

^^^ This is still how my father-in-law cooks.

The chutney and sultanas put it over the top for me. O/w it sounds bland but not the worst thing I'd seen at e.g. a church pot-luck in the US Midwest.

That's why I specified professional publication. Mrs V has American family and I've seen some of the insane shit they think is a good idea to throw in a pot.

I suspect we have a couple of quite professional veg. cookbooks with awful cheesy horrors, though the sweet/bland double punch of this "curry" is going to make it hard to top.

Proper Indian cheese curry is very nice, but that uses Feta-like sour cheese, not cheddar, which sounds like a glutinous horror.

not enough chocolate imo

I'm not gonna hang my head in shame but I do turn a little red admitting that it actually looks yummy. To be honest I'm not a cheese connoisseur by any means, but I will admit I like cheese dishes. Because my husband hates cheese - it smells like recycled vomit, he claims - I am deprived of cheese. So whenever I have the chance, I'll cook up something really cheesy.

My mum sends me cheese curries from Japan sometimes. I could see someone saying it tastes like rubber, but I can't help but enjoy it. heh

What you mightn't be aware of Nath is that the 70s cheddar that the recipe was designed for had the taste and consistency of orange soap. And I'm like a major cheese fiend.

i really want a beef, ale and stilton pie now

Oh fuck I've just found "Roast Chicken with Cheese and Peanut Stuffing".

And, I shit you not, "Macaroni Mushroom Toss".

Cheese Information Service otm.

that just sounds like macaroni cheese with extra funghi, i.e. probably pretty damn good if done well

for fear of being struck by another's bechamel

Not the recipe, the NAME

haha you eat toss

It's good that I've finally been arsed to use our scanner tho. I'm gonna make some sweet Roy of the Rovers jpegs later. See if I can find my old Victor annuals too.

lileks to thread

"Crunchy Stuffed Eggs". On a Monty Python tip there.

(xpost) "Ham Basted with 7-Up"!? OK, LJ's got competition...

alright this is from the Moosewood cookbook which acc. to Wikipedia "was listed by the New York Times as one of the top ten bestselling cookbooks of all time, and is likely the most popular vegetarian cookbook in the world."

Whole Wheat Macaroni - Russian Style (p. 101)

Combine: 1 1/2 cups sour cream
2 cups cottage cheese
1 cup grated Cheddar
1 red onion, sliced
2 scallions, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped

Sauté in butter: 2 cups shredded cabbage
1/2 pound sliced mushrooms
1 chopped carrot
1 tsp. caraway seeds

Boil: 2 cups whole wheat macaroni

Combine everything, bake.

It lacks the revolting sweetness but the double cheese and cream horribleness make this a contender I think.

The cabbage is bit euuurgh but I'd probly eat that. Not trying to dispute about taste, tho. If US Cheddar isn't labelled as sharp does that mean it's super-bland like the UK version?

I've not had run-of-the-mill UK cheddar to compare with, but US cheddar, even when labeled as sharp, is often bland and rubbery. We also have the extra bland Colby, which is like the blandest bland cheddar with extra milk added.

Yeah, I found out about Colby when I was trying to put this Mac and Cheese recipe together one time.

Make a drumset of cheese

> I heard the Cheese Information Service had serious beef with the Egg Marketing Board.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Saturday, March 28, 2009 7:57 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Which left the National Cattle Ranchers Assn cheesed off and with egg on their face.

sorry

I showed the recipe to my wife w/o no thread context or commentary.

"I .... don't think I'd want to eat that."

In the picture what's particularly disturbing is those big cubes of cheese just sitting there in the gloop, all menacing.

Classic 30-year-old desaturated CMYK printing effect, tho.

I bought and have kept my copy of that book just to contemplate the mystery of Cheddar Curry.

Mac and Cheese is kindof like crack. But there are many ways you can make it, obviously. Yes I know there is a separate thread for mac and cheese. Thanks.

Having Mac and Cheese for me tea, alongside chorizo and scallops.

Wonderful! You know the best mac and cheese I can ever remember having was at this lady's house last Christmas. Breadcrumbs, you see and neither too cheesy nor too milky. It was perfect.

it looks like a disgusting version of any number of basic indian Paneer dishes, and thus isn't really that surprising.

Oh I never eat Indian Paneer dishes, actually. Love Indian food but never go there.

Relating this monstrosity to Indian paneer dishes is like pissing in the mouths of a whole culture.

If you go to America, you get some...anything...burritos...anything I mean you can get sponge cake, and it'll be covered in canned cheese.