On the left, the original Halal Guys White Sauce; on the right, our adaptation.
Another year, another clips post with the most popular recipes in the past 12 months as measured by clicks. A few changes if you compare to 2022 and 2021.
- Recipe: Halal Guys White Sauce. Once upon a time, people would read about our efforts to duplicate the legendary food stand white sauce, but not bother to read the actual recipe we developed. Frustrating! We’re gratified that now the research and recipe posts are almost exactly equal in clicks.
- Recipe: Thai Chili Vinegar. Do you actually need a recipe for this simple condiment? Yes and no. Nice that so many readers want to recreate the sauce that’s on the table in every U.S. Thai restaurant.
- Special Recipe: Bone Bread. Oh, come on now! Bone bread is like stone soup: a novelty in which we introduced an alien ingredient just for kicks. The post originally ran at Halloween, of course. The recipe will actually make a perfectly decent soudrdough loaf, but we hope you’re going to check our other sourdough recipes like this and this.
- Recipe: German-Style Head Cheese (Souse). Maybe this recipe is popular because it includes a video of half a pig’s head bubbling in a giant vat. It’s a solid head cheese recipe, but if you’re into offal try our transcendent Amish-Style Pickled Tripe in Aspic.
- Recipe: Buttermilk Cheese Grits. This is an East Texas Texas staple which we’ve doctored up with herbs and lightened with buttermilk instead of cream. Enjoy with some of Allen Benton’s ham.
So what didn’t make the cut? The Colonel’s KFC Three Bean Salad, for one, which has been on every top 5 list until now. And Vincent’s Garlic Cole Slaw which at one time was our most popular recipe of them all. Maybe folks do as we do, and download favorite recipes rather than continually revisiting them. If you’re a newer reader of Burnt My Fingers, do check out these old standbys.
