A note on the below post...it's been in draft form for over 2 months so...I hit publish. Recipe was good and from Alton Brown's newest cookbook. And yes...I did in fact make something that was recipe 4, but I have no idea what it was now. Hence the title of this post. Enjoy my rambling of pre-baby #2's arrival!
In reading the first 2 ingredients of this recipe (dried pitted dates and dried apricots), I immediately thought "Ooh, this my shhh, this my shhh." And don't even pretend you don't know the song I'm referencing. It was at it's peak of popularity in fall 2005 when I was just beginning my senior in high school. That's right. Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" - that hit that made all girls feel gangster for singing it and also taught the world to spells bananas. I would be willing to bet you still have the tune in your head whenever you're writing/typing out bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Me too, friends. This hit was so big, we even had it on our senior girls tshirts (that were horrific hot pink and green) - they said "We ain't no hollaback girls" or something to that effect. It's in my closet somewhere....longing to be made into a tshirt quilt. Years from now, I'm sure our kids will have no idea what this reference is to, at which time I can play them the song that would be classified as an "oldie" by then.
Anyway, back to this recipe. I was super pumped to try it, minus the fact that it had some weird ingredients that I never, ever buy/use in recipes (flax seed?? chia seed????? crystallized ginger?). I imagined having to go to Trader Joes and buy giant bottles of these things that will just go bad since the recipe only calls for tiny amounts of them (but I definitely couldn't leave them out). Also, people actually eat chia seeds? The only thing I know about chia seeds is they are probably the same thing as "Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia." Meaning the iconic Christmas gift where you soak the seeds then spread them on some terra cotta character head and it sprouts like "hair." No, I've never had one, but I'm pretty sure that's how it works and I'm pretty sure the seeds are the same. What was I going to do with a whole jar of chia seeds? Then I remembered the aisle at H-E-B (our grocery chain down here for my Indiana friends) that I never, ever go in that has a billion bins and weird stuff in them that you buy by scooping out however much you need, weighing it, and printing the sticker. Surely they would have these flax seeds and chia right? Bingo! They even had crystallized ginger (which, I'll be honest with you, I wasn't sure WHERE I would possibly get my hands on the stuff). My poor child was with me on this fateful grocery trip and he got very impatient with how long it took me in this aisle looking up and down at the labels of all the bins and then trying to figure out how many ounces I was getting based on the scale in pounds. Yes, I asked if the scale could be turned to ounces. No, it couldn't. He was beside himself with boredom by the time I was done, but I managed to secure all the weird seeds/nuts I needed for this recipe! Nevermind that I totally spaced on even looking for unsweetened coconut flakes (so those I omitted instead of going back in the aisle to try and find them).
In reading the first 2 ingredients of this recipe (dried pitted dates and dried apricots), I immediately thought "Ooh, this my shhh, this my shhh." And don't even pretend you don't know the song I'm referencing. It was at it's peak of popularity in fall 2005 when I was just beginning my senior in high school. That's right. Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" - that hit that made all girls feel gangster for singing it and also taught the world to spells bananas. I would be willing to bet you still have the tune in your head whenever you're writing/typing out bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Me too, friends. This hit was so big, we even had it on our senior girls tshirts (that were horrific hot pink and green) - they said "We ain't no hollaback girls" or something to that effect. It's in my closet somewhere....longing to be made into a tshirt quilt. Years from now, I'm sure our kids will have no idea what this reference is to, at which time I can play them the song that would be classified as an "oldie" by then.
Anyway, back to this recipe. I was super pumped to try it, minus the fact that it had some weird ingredients that I never, ever buy/use in recipes (flax seed?? chia seed????? crystallized ginger?). I imagined having to go to Trader Joes and buy giant bottles of these things that will just go bad since the recipe only calls for tiny amounts of them (but I definitely couldn't leave them out). Also, people actually eat chia seeds? The only thing I know about chia seeds is they are probably the same thing as "Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia." Meaning the iconic Christmas gift where you soak the seeds then spread them on some terra cotta character head and it sprouts like "hair." No, I've never had one, but I'm pretty sure that's how it works and I'm pretty sure the seeds are the same. What was I going to do with a whole jar of chia seeds? Then I remembered the aisle at H-E-B (our grocery chain down here for my Indiana friends) that I never, ever go in that has a billion bins and weird stuff in them that you buy by scooping out however much you need, weighing it, and printing the sticker. Surely they would have these flax seeds and chia right? Bingo! They even had crystallized ginger (which, I'll be honest with you, I wasn't sure WHERE I would possibly get my hands on the stuff). My poor child was with me on this fateful grocery trip and he got very impatient with how long it took me in this aisle looking up and down at the labels of all the bins and then trying to figure out how many ounces I was getting based on the scale in pounds. Yes, I asked if the scale could be turned to ounces. No, it couldn't. He was beside himself with boredom by the time I was done, but I managed to secure all the weird seeds/nuts I needed for this recipe! Nevermind that I totally spaced on even looking for unsweetened coconut flakes (so those I omitted instead of going back in the aisle to try and find them).
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