{"id":111410,"date":"2023-10-01T15:24:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T19:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=111410"},"modified":"2023-10-01T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T19:24:43","slug":"recipe-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=111410","title":{"rendered":"Recipe Frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you suffer from RTS (Recipe Trepidation Syndrome) as I do? I do enjoy puttering around in the kitchen.\u00a0 But I am wary of any recipe that calls for electrical gadgets to be employed in the prep\u2026 such as blenders &amp; food processors.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even use an electrical can opener. I also stay away from obscure ingredients like eye of newt and esoteric devices like the thing that skims fat off of a simmering stew.\u00a0 Or other bizarre kitchen implements that Williams Sonoma hawk that trace their origins to the torture chambers of the  Spanish Inquisition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the image below you can see that my favorite\u00a0<em>New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0cartoonist, Roz Chaz, has captured the spirit of my angst.\u00a0 Although my &#8220;recipe back-up&#8221; would probably be 2 White Castle sliders, and not a can of tuna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/roz-chaz-6.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"665\" src=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/roz-chaz-6.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/roz-chaz-6.webp 600w, http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/roz-chaz-6-271x300.webp 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you suffer from RTS (Recipe Trepidation Syndrome) as I do? I do enjoy puttering around in the kitchen.\u00a0 But I am wary of any recipe that calls for electrical gadgets to be employed in the prep\u2026 such as blenders &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=111410\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry-of-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111412,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111410\/revisions\/111412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}