Rick Rodgers (1) (1953–)

Most of the recipes seemed to be recipes I would see in every autumn cookbook (and many family cookbooks) except one: Red-Eye Chilli. I bought it for that recipe, but when I finally tried it the results were horrible! It was so bitter that it was inedible! We were tasting ingredients to see if perhaps some were flawed or rancid and ruined the dish, but we found nothing wrong with them. It failed to live up to the description of this bitterness being balanced by other tastes in the dish. We had to load it with peanut butter and sour cream to make it edible, since the meat was far to expensive to waste (this was not an everyday dinner for family with those ingredients). It was barely enough to get us to swallow it.

This was the first professional cookbook I ever donated to the book exchange. I was looking at the other recipes and, while they looked good (but the Red-Eye Chilli looked good) there was nothing else that I felt was unique enough in comparison to all the other cookbooks I own to make it worth keeping. I left a note in it, wishing the next person luck with trying other recipes in it.… (mehr)

Most of the recipes seemed to be recipes I would see in every autumn cookbook (and many family cookbooks) except one: Red-Eye Chilli. I bought it for that recipe, but when I finally tried it the results were horrible! It was so bitter that it was inedible! We were tasting ingredients to see if perhaps some were flawed or rancid and ruined the dish, but we found nothing wrong with them. It failed to live up to the description of this bitterness being balanced by other tastes in the dish. We had to load it with peanut butter and sour cream to make it edible, since the meat was far to expensive to waste (this was not an everyday dinner for family with those ingredients). It was barely enough to get us to swallow it.

This was the first professional cookbook I ever donated to the book exchange. I was looking at the other recipes and, while they looked good (but the Red-Eye Chilli looked good) there was nothing else that I felt was unique enough in comparison to all the other cookbooks I own to make it worth keeping. I left a note in it, wishing the next person luck with trying other recipes in it.… (mehr)