Twitter And The Rise Of The Micro-Recipe
March 30th, 2009
When I started Cookthink’s Twitter account a couple of years ago, one of the first people I followed was Maureen Evans, who uses her twitter.com/cookbook account to tweet recipes in 140 characters or less. (I made a request for cemita milanese, and she delivered.)
According to Ruth Jamieson and Morwenna Ferrier in yesterday’s Guardian, the micro-recipe is now officially a trend. To mark it, Jamieson and Ferrier asked eight of the UK’s top chefs to create micro-recipes suitable for Twitter. The results are sensible, maybe too much so. My favorite, if only for the Joycean “turnevrysooften,” is Mark Hix’s micro-recipe for pork crackling: “Heat oven200C. Cut 1kgporkrind into strips. Boil 15m. Drain, scatter w/csalt, roast1hr, turnevrysooften.”
Leave your best micro-recipe (max. 140 characters) in the comments. We’ll send a book of macro recipes to the person who submits our favorite.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Olive bread: equal spelt/wh.wheat, lots olive oil, rise in fridge, knead with dbl handful chopped bl/gr olives, 230C 10min, 180C 25min.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Peanut butter noodles: boil noodles, drain, mix with 3 parts peanut butter, soy sauce, vinegar, 1 part sesame oil, and pinch of sugar
March 30th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Here’s a micro-version of my Mango Frozen Yogurt recipe (http://www.cookthink.com/recipe/16305/Mango_Frozen_Yogurt):
Blend 1 handful frozen sliced mango, 1 dollop Greek yogurt, 1 splash white rum, 1 dash nutmeg, 1 pinch sugar til frozen yogurt 4 1 appears.
March 31st, 2009 at 4:23 am
Chicken marsala:Dip 1kgchicken fil in flour, then egg, then crumbs.Fry in 3tbolive.+2c mushrooms, 1 c corn, 1conion. pour cmarsala. Salt, pepper, nutmeg.Simmer.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:18 am
Popovers:Stir 1cflr+1/4tspsalt. Whisk 1cmlk+2XLeggs+1Tmeltbut. Mixall in spoutdcup. Pour in htd, grsd ppverpan. 20min@450+10@350. No p-king!
March 31st, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Tht gvs me a hedake.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:02 pm
[…] Via Cookthink, I came to know about micro-recipes today, recipes that fit into 140 characters or less for mediums like Twitter. A curious kind of micro-recipe-speak seems to be emerging too - one in which spaces and vowels are shunned, while the ampersand is lavished with attention. […]
April 1st, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Choc Cookies-Mix 1c buttr,2c sugr. Add 2egg,1tbsp vanilla,2c flour,1c cocoa, 1tsp bakngsoda,1/2tsp bakngpowdr,1/2tsp salt. Bake 350F, 13min
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
6 wheat tortillas+1c mozzarella+1/2c provolone+1/4c black olives+3 tbsp walnuts+oregano=3 walnut-olive quesadillas. Yum.
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:48 am
pork tenderloin : Trim fat, rub w/ sea salt, fresh thyme, let sit. Render fat, brown, roast 50 min. side-mash roast sweet taters w/ butter
April 6th, 2009 at 1:15 am
Peanut butter. Jelly. Spread, fold and enjoy
April 18th, 2009 at 9:27 am
These are all great. (Nice, Laurel.) It was a split vote, but our favorite was Jenny’s recipes for popovers, which came in at exactly 140 characters. Congratulations, Jenny!