Yet another Wiener Wednesday dish that I chose because of the name.
The Babysitter’s Favorite.
This is from Crock-Pot Cooking by Marilyn Neill.
As someone who was only a babysitter for a single summer because I disliked it so much, I can’t really speak on what would make this a babysitter favorite; so instead I looked to the 1980 made- for-tv movie The Babysitter for some insight.
But the movie didn’t really tell me anything useful. In it, the babysitter’s favorite things are:
- walking around in Patty Duke’s lingerie:
murder- William Shatner (who gives an oddly dialed down performance)
- and giving alcohol to alcoholics
(Watch Patty get her Neely O’Hara on in this scene)
Through it all, the babysitter doesn’t cook once.
Although she does wield a kitchen knife.
So the movie was no help and gave me no idea as to why a babysitter would have strong feelings about frankfurters, yams, and apples with autumnal spices. None at all.
I assume that this recipe would be a favorite because the parents could load this into the crock pot earlier in the day and there would be dinner ready for the sitter and the kids.
With that in mind, I put all the ingredients together the night before and then turned on the crock-pot in the AM before I left for work. The way that the crock-pot people intended.
After 9 hours in the crock pot, here is the result:
Sweet Christ on a cracker. This was horrid.
This concoction was simultaneously overly sweet, questionably smoky (thanks, tiny smoked hot dogs!), mushy, and drippy.
The only ways I can fathom that this would be a favorite:
- the babysitter wanted to punish the kids
- the babysitter wanted to develop an eating disorder
Seriously. It is inedible. Flat-out nasty.
Man, the Summer of Franks has been rough. We started out strong with the Hot Dog S’mores and then we’ve just devolved into Frosted Franks and this tomfoolery.
Perhaps next week will be better.
It has to get better.
Wait, is Stephanie Zimbalist the Babysitter? She was so classic 80s movie chic. And Remington Steele.
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Casting a ballot for Throwback Cocktail Thursday!
I’m intrigued. What do you suggest a Throwback Cocktail Thursday would entail?
Maybe vintage cocktail of the week- featuring old timey ingredients (whiskey sour w packaged instant ‘froth mix’); or retro locales – (hawaiin tiki); cinema reference or personal favorite: former famous restaurant menus (nypl digital collection). Or maybe it’s just been -too- long since visiting an actual public bar, so the home bar is better stocked!
menus.nypl.org
I am liking this. A Thirsty Thursday, if you will. I have a ton of drink recipes and a ton of booze in the house. This may start post-Wiener Wednesday
When I saw the end result, I had a sudden vision of Oliver Twist saying, “Nah. I’m good.” 😀
Maybe after the babysitter & her boyfriend have smoked all the pot he brought over. Just fish out the corktail weenies & eat those with cheese & crackers.
I see so many recipes for entrees that seem waaaaay too sweet to me. It’s good to know that at least some of them are as terrible as they sound like they will be, even if I tend to be way too picky.
That was some movie! Shudder. I must have missed it when it was on originally — thank goodness! What were they thinking in those early 80s made-for-TV movies? Oy vey.
This almost reminds me of Rachel’s beef trifle mishap on Friends. It’s like two disparate recipes got mixed up together somehow. You were brave to even attempt it; sorry it got wasted. And I’m sure you’re right, things have to move up from here 🙂