DON'T TELL MY SISSY!

 I did something I haven't done since, crap I don't even know!  And it is something I give my poor sister grief for.

Ages ago, even before I moved back to Kamloops after Bill died, there was a soiree of some sort at Kathy's house.  She made a spinach dip, every body's guilty, or not so guilty, pleasure.  There is nothing like dipping a piece of yummy sourdough into that creamy goodness and getting your first delicious taste.  Her spin dip looked fantastic and just as delicious as any I had seen before.  I grabbed a piece of bread, dipped deeply getting a bit of my fingers covered, and into the mouth and saaaaavvvvour....and WHAT????!!!!  It wasn't right!!!  It was sweet!!!  What the heck?  I accosted the poor girl with 'What did you do to this?'  'Well' she answers with a shrug, 'I was out of mayonnaise so I used Miracle Whip.'  

Now there are some things you can substitute or fool around with the ingredients, but miracle whip and mayonnaise are NOT interchangeable. No No No!!!!

Well poor Kathy.  I don't think I was overly subtle about the fact that Miracle Whip shouldn't even be in her fridge let alone in spin dip.  If you absolutely HAVE TO HAVE something resembling it for a certain recipe, just dump some sugar and vinegar into mayo and you have a pretty good facsimile of it.

And today, for the very first time since I lived in Westsyde when I was sixteen, I bought a weeny teeny tiny jar of.....MIRACLE WHIP!!!  I am making an experimental pasta salad soon and my spidey senses tell me that the miracle whip will be better than mayo.  Plus I am buying a lot of big delicious tomatoes and miracle whip absolutely is the way to go with tomato sammiches.  I remember from my teen years.  

Mom would buy boxes of local tomatoes to can, and in Kamloops with all that sun they are beyond amazing, and we would cut them up into quarters into a bowl, get another bowl of mw and dip and bite, dip and bite.  Soooooo good.

When Ange came up stairs for dinner she spied the miracle whip and made a pretty loud statement, 'wow!!! look what you bought!!!! After all you have said!!!!'  So I am eating crow...but just a half of a crow.

Now it is time to eat.  Salmon and or cod burgers and fries.  With or without Miracle Whip!  (that was the name of the piece of horse harness that hung behind the kitchen door and was the household strap.  Remember...it was totally era appropriate in the fifties.  And kids were sure well behaved back then.  Hmmmmm I wonder if that has something to do with the currant behaviour tendencies amongst the young!

Stay happy.  Hug a neighbour!  TTYL