Welcome to The Recipe for Failure

I love bad recipes and gross food pictures, especially those from the 50's through early 80's. I was delighted when Wendy of Candyboots.com did the Weight Watchers recipes blog years ago (for some reason the site is down for now, but you can buy the book!) and often return to laugh when I'm having a bad day. I would like to make it clear that I am in no way the first or the last person to blog about this, so please visit the links at right for the sites and blogs of my predecessors. If you know of any like these, please send them to me!

Because I am fond of cooking and have a great sense of what flavors and foods go together, these recipes often personally offend me, and sometimes I love to be personally offended.

One of my favorite recent memories with my friend Deirdre is staying up late at her then-boyfriend's house, laughing ourselves sick with disgust at The Biker Cookbook (otherwise known as the Lard-Induced Heart Attack on A Harley.) As for retro Recipe Failures, I love the 60's - 70's obsession with bad lighting, weird props, the glisten of aspic, the sheen of gelatin...

I'm also basically vegan, so any recipe involving meat is an automatic gross-out, especially when really graphic in taste and preparation descriptions.

The point of this blog is, pretty much, to gross you out, and to enjoy grossing myself out.

I also love to share good recipes, and so I will do that once in awhile here to break things up.
You can find my official page of recipes on my site.

xoxo
Audiogirl
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