The Anti Blogger: Stolen Recipes and Recipe Blogs No One Needs

If you aren’t familiar with the Anti Blogger, you can read the introduction post about Wordless Wednesday under the tab. This time I want to post about recipe blogs that I find to be complete wastes of time and just as annoying as the uninteresting picture blog.

Stolen Recipes

I understand there are only so many ways you can make certain dishes. You can only adapt your tater tot hot dish slightly before it is no longer tater tot hot dish. I really appreciate bloggers that blog recipes that are adapted or at least reworded and properly credited. This means, “I found this chicken noodle soup recipe at Food Network, but I changed it into a no salt, vegetarian recipe.” (Link to original recipe included.)

You cannot copy and paste a recipe and the picture from another web site and just call it your own. That my friends, is not only stealing (and I’m guessing so common that you really need not fear punishment) but it is also crap blogging. It is better to not blog at all than to just throw up someone else’s stuff.  If there is nothing you can add to a recipe that is already on the internet 400 times, you may want to consider whether you really need to post it again on your blog.

Box Recipes, Recipes We Don’t Need, and Recipes We Don’t Want

Example A:

Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Recipe

Ingredients:

• One box of Kraft Mac and Cheese: preferably the one that claims to be the cheesiest. I’d advise against the generic box mac and cheese and spend the extra coinage on Kraft. Also don’t ever try the Sponge Bob mac and cheese. For some reason the noodles are extra hard and gross.
• Butter
• Milk unless you don’t have any and you use water.
• Water

Cooking Tools
A pan
A spoon

Boil the noodles, drain, mix in mystery powdery substance which is supposed to be cheese, butter, and milk. Serve with a vegetable so you don’t feel bad for feeding your kids box mac and cheese while someone’s mom somewhere is making their own butter and cheese and making it from scratch.

Example B:

Anything With Hot Dogs

If you care at all about the art of blogging or being a foodie, please don’t ever blog any recipe that involves hot dogs. And if it involves hot dogs in soup, keep that to yourself and make your kids promise to never ever tell anyone for as long as they live that you actually prepared that for them.

What is the worst recipe you’ve seen on a blog?

My BFF Cari from Bubble Gum on My Shoe came up with the brilliant idea (along with Daddy’s In Charge and his inspirational recipes) to create a link up of the worst and/or easiest recipes on blogs, so here it is. Link up and share your fancy (or not) cooking skills…

(Some of you will have to do a special recipe for this link up because I’m only accepting easy or intermediate. Don’t try to link up any fancy or chefery type stuff.) Also make sure you check out the other hilarious posts–the first one is this post-I just added it there to test the linky thing.