Entomologists earn $80,000 a year.
So, they make enough to buy whatever motorcycle they like.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
There comes a time #3
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
INGREDIENTS
⅔ cup flour
3 cups wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1½ cups confectioners’ sugar
1 cup butter, softened
½ cup milk
SPECIAL UTENSILS
parchment paper
2 baking sheets
Makes 60 cookies. Takes 2 hours.
PREPARATION
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add flour, wheat flour, baking powder, and sugar to large mixing bowl. Mix with fork or whisk. Cut butter into ½” cubes. Knead with hands until mixture resembles bread crumbs. Add milk. Knead with hands until dough forms.
Roll out dough until it’s ⅛” thick. Cut dough into 2½” circles. Place parchment paper on baking sheet. Place biscuits on parchment. Prick biscuits all over with fork. (Make a design if you wish.) Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until biscuits turn golden brown. (You will most likely need to cook in batches.) Cool on wire rack. Goodness, these simple biscuits are tasty.
TIDBITS
1) From Professor Nicholas Baigent, London School of Economics, “ Did you know that they are seldom consumed in public places in the South of England, though lots are enjoyed privately with family and friends? In the Deep South here, dunking is thoroughly frowned upon. If you don’t want the job you are being offered, just dunk your biscuit in the cup of weak tea they will force upon you at the interview.”
2) Mitch Jagger attended the London School of Economics (LSE). However, he dropped out after only one year.
3) “He announced his attention of going into business but was worried about mathematics,”
– Walter Stern, Jagger’s tutor at the LSE
4) Mr. Jagger’s career path gained more traction when he became lead singer for The Rolling Stones. He did rather well while there, by all accounts.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Last time, the tortoise pushed the hare too far.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Gloomy Man and Happy Man got into a flour fight while making cookies.
Wouldn’t it have even neater if I could have found a picture of Edgar Allan Poe writing at his desk. He’s just penned the words, “Once upon a midnight dreary.” A woman is looking over his shoulder and says, “Okay, gloomer.”
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
INGREDIENTS 
1 cup rice
2½ pounds chicken parts, bone in
¼ teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ teaspoon salt
1 green bell pepper
1 habanero pepper
3 garlic cloves
2 Roma tomatoes
1 onion
⅓ cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 chicken bouillon cubes
1 cup green beans, fresh
1 pound shrimp, pealed, deveined, 31-35 count (optional)
SPECIAL UTENSIL
food processor
Serves 4. Takes 50 minutes.
PREPARATION
Cook rice according to instructions on package. Add chicken parts, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and salt to large bowl. Add enough water to cover. Bring to boil at high heat. Reduce heat to medium high. Cook for 20 minutes. Chicken parts should be tender to the fork. Remove chicken from pot. Reserve 2 cups of the liquid.
While chicken cooks, seed green bell pepper. Remove stem from habanero pepper. (Be sure to wash hands.) Dice garlic cloves, green bell pepper, and Roma tomatoes. Add habanero pepper, garlic, green bell pepper, and tomato to food processor. Blend until pureed.
Mince onion. Add onion and vegetable oil to large pan. Sauté at medium-high heat for 5 minutes or until onion softens. Stir frequently Add pureed veggies. Stir until well blended. Add tomato paste. Stir until well blended. Reduce heat to low medium. Simmer for 5 minutes. Stir enough to prevent burning.
Add chicken, bouillon cubes, green beans, and 2 cups reserved liquid. Simmer for another 5 minutes. Bring to boil using medium high heat. Add shrimp. Cook for 3 minutes or until shrimp turns orange or pink. Serve over rice. Use as much liquid as you wish.
TIDBITS
1) It is rarely ever suspected that I took lessons from the famous abstract artist, Joan Miro.
2) Here is my abstract painting of my Chicken Gravy entree. I call it Chicken Gravy. This is Jane the Judgmental Cat’s favorite work of art.
3) I did color and black-and white paintings of Chicken Gravy.
4)While in middle school, I had a vase I made displayed in the famous Gemeente Museum in Den Haag, Netherlands. I called it, Vase.
5) Yet, I have managed to remain humble through all this success.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Jane the Judgmental Cat says, “I know I’m beautiful, but if you’re looking at me, you’re not doing dishes. You have a Jenga(tm) tower of dishes in your sink. Put away the clean dishes from the dish washer, put the dirty dishes in the dish washer, and start the cleaning cycle, If you dont, I’ll scratch you.”
Jane the Judgmental Cat #3, Do your dishes
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
INGREDIENTS
1 green bell pepper
1 celery stalk
1 medium onion
1½ pounds shrimp, peeled and deveined (41-50 count)
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon seasoned salt
6 bacon slices
2 tablespoons butter
¼ cup flour
1½ cups beef stock
Serves 6 Takes 35 minutes.
PREPARATION
Seed and dice bell pepper. Dice celery and onion. Add shrimp, garlic powder, and seasoned salt to mixing bowl. Stir with fork or hands until shrimp are completely coated.
Add bacon to pan. Cook at medium-high heat until crisp. Remove bacon with slotted spoon and place on paper towels. Crumble bacon. Keep bacon grease in pan. Add bell pepper, celery, and onion. Sauté for 4 minutes or until onion softens. Stir frequently. Add butter and flour to pan. Reduce heat to medium. Cook for 5 minutes or until flour turns copper brown. Stir constantly. Reduce heat if necessary, to prevent burning.
Add beef stock and coated shrimp to pan. Reduce heat to low-medium and simmer for 4 minutes or until shrimp turns pink or orange. Stir frequently. Add crumbled bacon. Mix with fork until well blended. Goes well over freshly cooked rice or grits.
TIDBITS
1) When I was a kid, I took speech therapy classes. One of the phrases I had to master was “Butter makes the bitter batter better.” I enrolled in one acting class. I had to say easily, “You need New York, unique New York. You know you need unique New York.”
3) I played Snoopy in my grammar school’s version of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. I even danced and sang. I built upon this success to play Wildcat Willie in my middle school’s production of Wildcat Willie Carves the Turkey.
4)Strange to say, I landed no more roles after that. I do however, have the occasional dream where I’m on stage and I don’t know the name of the play or my lines. Sigh.
Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
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You need to see #23
Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
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