We love Cook’s Illustrated and watching America’s Test Kitchen on TV. More than once, Oak or I have said, that would be a fun job… just testing and tasting recipes all day!! (Of course, this is a passing thought.. as making the same dish 35 times with different equipment would surely get old..)

So, imagine our excitement when one day in my email, I got a note that you can join the America’s Test Kitchen team to help test recipes in your own home!! How exciting! Of course, there’s no compensation, but you do get access to top-secret test kitchen recipes!!! ooooh…

I signed up, but then didn’t get anything for a few weeks so I was seriously doubting if this was even a real program. But, lo and behold, last week we received our first recipe: Pasta with chunky and creamy sundried tomato sauce. The recipe said that we had exactly 1 week to make the recipe and turn in our survey results. Yikes! By the time we gathered the ingredients and actually had time to mess with the recipe, it was a day late. Oh well. It was delicious!!! And, they seemed to still let me fill out the survey. Who knew?

I totally forgot to take a picture of the results, and the product is long gone. Oak kept eating it and exclaiming “this is so good”, so even the leftovers didn’t last long… I’m sure we’ll be making it again sometime soon.

So, we’re now looking forward to receiving our next recipe. Maybe if we’re super-dedicated, Christopher Kimball himself will send us complimentary subscriptions to Cook’s Illustrated or Cook’s Country!! (OK, not happening, but we can dream, can’t we?)

Posted by Carrie on Thursday, November 15, 2007
Categories: cooking, food, testkitchen · 1 Comment »