Top 10 Endless Simmer Posts of 2011

We made you laugh, we made you cry, we seriously pissed some of you off. Just another year on the Simmer. Here are the 10 posts readers drooled on the most this year.

10. Chocolate and Salted Caramel Pudding Pops

Popsicles — back before they got naughty.

9. 100 Ways to Cook with Guinness

We can only hope this exhaustive St. Patrick’s Day resource makes up for the anger some of you felt about our #4 ranked post (keep reading).

8. Whiskey, Caramel, Marshmallow and Bacon Bark

Food bloggers’ secret: put these four ingredients in the title of any post, and you will pretty much win the Internet.

7. 100 Ways to Use Sriracha

Let’s also just go ahead and say — on anything and everything.

 6. Strawberry Peach Vodka Collins Poptails

Which poptail recipe is your favorite?

5. S’Mores Bars

Has a jar of milk ever looked so sexy?

4. ES Taste Tests the New Crystal Guinness

Fine, we’re a-holes. But this comment, filed August 23rd, has got to be the best of the year:

go to hell!!!!! been looking forward to this all summer, april fools jokes are for 3rd graders, YOU messed with my emotions. very elaborate… could have chosen a beer without such a cult following.die

Sorry, man. We didn’t realize there would be such a serious demand for Crystal G. Maybe next year we can convince them to actually make it?

3. 100 Ways to Use Strawberries

Come back to us, strawberry season! Please?

2. March Madness: All 68 NCAA Tournament Teams Ranked By Their Best Drunk College Food

This one not only crashed the site, it may have also given our readership the world’s first collective heart attack. It was worth it, no?

1. America’s Top 10 New Sandwiches

What can we say? Americans love us some food on bread.