I spent a few minutes trying to talk myself out of leaving a comment (read: rant) about "recipes and ingredients" these days, but when the battle between good sense and annoyance was waged, you can probably guess which one was the victor. First of all, I would like to say that I love what you've done with at least one of your blog posts - compared the ingredients to the original type of store bought product that inspired your creative genious to your final version of same. That's partly due to the fact that I'm sensitive to a lot of categorically nasty things like corn syrup, sulfites, flavor enhancers like MSG and nutrasweet, their deceptively named equivalents, etc. Because of that, I do not eat convenience foods anymore, lest I wind up despondent and depressed for 2 weeks, covered in hives or just plain ill. Or all three. That's always fun. KAF products are, if given a choice, the only ones I tend to use for all of the baking and cooking I've ended up doing because of that. Incidentally, KAF flour is the only flour that doesn't give me hives. Sure, it takes a bit more time, but I feel far better for it, as would most people if they cut the processed garbage we've come to know as food out of our respective diets. I'm not preaching here, honest. I actually do have a point. I think. Oh, yes. I remember. "Ingredients & Recipes". I think the trend began in the 1950's. I've purchased several vintage cookbooks to try to find recipes that don't include things like frozen dessert toppings, canned frosting and prepackaged cake mixes, but as soon as convenience and canned foods began to saturate the market, it seems that recipes with simple, natural ingredients went the way of the dinosaur. Sad, that. And Pillsbury seems to be one of the most frequent offenders. I bought an entire cookbook of their "recipes" in 1992 and only found one that was useable (which had more to do with foul tasting end products than anything, primarily because I wasn't concerned with senstivity issues back then). But, I digress. I guess this miniature rant was just my way of saying keep up the good work! Oh, and fabulous blog! And, of course, Pillsbury recipes are icky and gross.

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