Twitter The Recipe

By Jacy Wojcik in Food on Apr 30, 2009 5:00PM

Want some challenge in your recipe and have given up on the Alinea cookbook? Try the Twitter Cookbook: recipes in 140 characters or less. The info on the page reads: "Tiny recipes condensed by @Maureen. Serves 3-4. Delicious ideas from all over the world." Maureen has kindly added a cookbook glossary in case you are confused by things like "mix 2lb/kg chickn/20whlclvgarlic/t." We like things that are miniature, but typically prefer a little more direction when it comes to recipes so we scoured the tweets for an easier recipe to increase our chances of success and found this:

“Hot Papaya Smoothie: blend 2c papaya (or mango)/c carrot (or orange) juice/.5c yogurt/3T honey&mint&lime juice/t ginger&jalapeno/dash salt.”

After following the recipe perfectly, then tweaking it because we weren't to fond of the flavor, the consensus was: it sounds better than it tastes. We added ice to make it more smoothie and less juicy but the flavor combinations (which soundlike they'll work) were a little drab with a hint of heat. A hot, bland juice, if you will. I would give @Maureen the benefit of the doubt that other recipes listed are delicious and while we think it's a fun novelty, we'll probably just stick to old fashioned ways of getting recipes like cookbooks, grandma's cards and epicurious.