OMFG -Cindy McCain also

[malaise]

had a plagiarized recipe in the New York Sun in January.
Thanks KO and Rachel -Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! :rofl:

[leftyclimber]

1. And my students wonder why it's not OK to plagiarize.

:mad:

[hendo]

2. link please? n/t

[malaise]

3. The link will be on KOs Countdown web site later

There was another one that she claimed as hers last year - this is too good.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Below is the recipe from Food Network and then her recipe that appeared in the NY Sun

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

BTW..Isn't Passion Fruit Mousse a little elitist??? lol!!!!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_27356,00.html
Passion Fruit Mousse
Recipe courtesy Gale Gand
Show: Sweet Dreams
Episode: Fabulous Fruit
Passion Fruit Mousse
You can pour the mousse into individual dessert cups or eggcups for a cute presentation. Finger bananas are half size and more yellow but starchier than regular bananas. Passion fruit grows in Bermuda and tropical climates like Asia and New Zealand. My mom brought me home some passion flower perfume from a visit to Bermuda in 1964 when she went to see my aunt Greta who lived there for a bit. The flower almost looks like an exotic insect of purple and yellow.

1 1/4 cups passion fruit puree
1 1/4 cups orange juice
3/4 cup sugar
Scant 1 tablespoon gelatin dissolved in 2 tablespoons water
3 cups heavy cream, whipped
2 finger bananas
Coarse sugar
1 kiwi, peeled, cut in 1/2 and sliced

In a saucepan, heat the passion fruit puree, orange juice, and sugar until dissolved.

Add the gelatin to the hot juice and stir to melt and combine. Strain the liquid into a bowl and place it over an ice bath. Stir it constantly with a rubber spatula and when it just starts to set, fold in the whipped cream. Pour this into soup plates or dessert bowls and chill. If storing them overnight, cover them with plastic wrap.

To serve the mousse, remove the bowls from the refrigerator. Peel and slice the bananas in half longways and dip their faces in coarse sugar and caramelize them under a broiler or with a blowtorch. Place them on the mousse fanning them then tuck in a few half slices of kiwi.

Cindy McCains' Recipe NY Sun
http://www2.nysun.com/article/69649
CINDY McCAIN'S PASSION FRUIT MOUSSE

1 1/4 cups passion fruit purée
1 1/4 cups orange juice
3/4 cup sugar
Scant 1 tablespoon gelatin, dissolved in 2 tablespoons water
3 cups heavy cream, whipped
2 finger (baby) bananas
Coarse sugar
1 kiwi, peeled, cut in half, and sliced

1. In a saucepan, heat the passion fruit purée, orange juice, and sugar until dissolved.

2. Add the dissolved gelatin to the hot juice and stir to melt and combine. Strain the liquid into a bowl and place it over an ice bath. Stir it constantly with a rubber spatula and when it just starts to set, fold in the whipped cream. Pour this into soup plates or dessert bowls and chill. If storing them overnight, cover them with plastic wrap.

3. To serve the mousse, remove the bowls from the refrigerator. Peel and slice the bananas in half lengthwise and dip the flat side in coarse sugar and caramelize them under a broiler or with a blowtorch. Place them on the mousse, fanning them, and then tuck in a few half slices of kiwi.

[malaise]

10. Passion fruit is so common here

that we'd never find this elitist.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. It's all a matter of geography. :) I don't think I'd know a passion fruit if it bit me in the tush!

My state is awash in apples. :)

:hi:

[malaise]

15. Makes a lovely refreshing drink

and great ice cream.
We can buy the juice in any supermarket and the fruit is available most of the year.

I only eat apples when I'm in the US or Europe - one of my sisters has a tree and I love fresh apples but hate the imported stuff.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

18. I'll have to see if my local grocery store carries them. It's always good to try new things and now

I know what to look for! Thank you!

Maybe I'll try to make Cindy's Passion Fruit Mousse

:rofl:

[malaise]

20. Just soak the seeds in boiling water

and strain, add sugar and water - chill and drink.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

21. Bookmarked!

:hi:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

22. ........

[AlCzervik]

4. well hello, don't you understand the his campaign doesn't think she's adequate

enough unless she appears to be just a regular home maker?

and shame on McCain.

[malaise]

13. McCooking the recipe book with Cindy

:rofl:

[csziggy]

5. She also had another recipe she plagarized

It was on Wonkette a day or two ago: "Way back in December of 2007, Cindy McCain entered "her" No-Bake Cookie recipe in Yankee Magazine's Cookie Primary. There was just one problem: she had stolen the formula whole cloth from Quaker Oats."
http://wonkette.com/380047/cindy-mccain-stole-recipes-from-innocent-quakers

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. lol! And...wait for this....she also stole from Quaker Oats in Yankee Magazine in 12/2007!!!!

http://wonkette.com/380047/cindy-mccain-stole-recipes-from-innocent-quakers

Cindy McCain Stole Recipes From Innocent Quakers

She knows what she didAs usual with these terrible betrayals of the public trust, it's not the crime — it's the coverup. If First Lady Cindy McCain had "talked straight" with the American people years ago and said, Yes, I get all my recipes from the Blue Cross drug formulary, we could have moved on. But instead she engages in this dangerous dance of deceit, leaving a trail of broken dreams and cribbed recipes behind her. One intrepid sleuth just uncovered what may be the first documented incident from Mrs. McCain's life of shadowy food-crime — an error that may end up costing John McCain precious votes with a once reliable constituency...

We refer, of course, to the Quakers.

Way back in December of 2007, Cindy McCain entered "her" No-Bake Cookie recipe in Yankee Magazine's Cookie Primary. There was just one problem: she had stolen the formula whole cloth from Quaker Oats.

The great irony here is that John McCain believes the government must actively enforce Americans' collective faith in the State by making a shameful spectacle out of those who would abuse the public trust. Thus, Wonkette looks forward to seeing Cindy McCain launched with great fanfare into Space, equipped with nothing but a sleeve of Saltines and a copy of the Federalist Papers to keep her company until she dies alone and ashamed.

[malaise]

8. That one is the best

:rofl: She stole a recipe from the fugging Quakers. She can't blame the volunteer for this.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. I am giggling uncontrollably here! It is just way too funny!!! I loved Keith's logic

to save Cindy's ass. That maybe John's 95 year old mother used the Food Network recipes and handed them down to Cindy!!!!! Maybe the same thing happened with the Quaker Oats recipe????

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[malaise]

16. That was priceless

:rofl:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. I don't think I'll ever forget this!!!!

:rofl:

[Journeyman]

9. And the craziest aspect of all is, if she just declared at the start she found the recipes. . .

at Such-and-Such a site, thought they sounded good, and they're now family favorites, it would accomplish all the campaign wanted to do by posting recipes in the first place. Most people in America who cook use someone else's recipes. No shame in it, and those cooks who do it can be every bit as good as cooks who do create their own recipes.

It amazes me, the weird contortions and lies politicians and their families will put themselves through to "prove they're just like me," and all the while they haven't a clue what my life's like in the least.

[malaise]

11. Isn't that the truth

What a fraud.

[Thepricebreaker]

19. Is this all we have on them? We are fucked....

[alphafemale]

23. Oh, there's plenty. But this is just funny and not sickening like most of the other stuff.