Monthly Archives: August 2023

Wanda Wunder Wonders About Parsnips

Wanda Wunder #32

– 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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I Made a Birthday Cake

I’ve recovered enough from yesterday to make a birthday cake. Alas, it’s not my best effort, but still the cake was homemade. The strawberry frosting was also frosting. This cake was my first attempt to use fondant.

I also made strawberry glycerin soap, using real strawberries.

All this activity kept me off the streets, where I would only have fomented revolution.

– 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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Tired and Not Feeling Well

It took me 90 minutes to get back home. The trip should have taken about 35 minutes, but there was endless traffic james due to omnipresent road repair. There were only four or so ways to get back home and there was road work on each and every one of them. Country road workers really did leave nothing to chance.

I got back so late that I missed half of my eye therapy session. Later  I started feeling unwell, I think from something I ate or maybe it was just stress.

Today was far too peoply out there. I hope I feel better tomorrow. I need to make a special cake.

 

– 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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Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Word: Gemsoap

The struggle is real.

Awesome Entry #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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Life’s Eternal Questions

There have been three puzzles bedeviling humanity’s greatest minds since the Age of Cavemen.

Now, I am pleased as Punch to announce the answer to one mystery. Please see the picture below and marvel at the newest signficant step in the ascent of humanity.

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– 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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No Post Tonight: Technology Stinks

I took a picture with my cell phone. I was planning to use a photo on it for today’s blog. I tried to send the picture to my computer.

But no, it was impossible. I tried different ways over a fairly large stretch of time to transmit it to my computer’s email account. The cell phone prevented me each and everytime. You might think a $400 cell phone can do basic things like this and not repeatedly butt-call people.

The cell phone designers continually boast of their super duper apps, I just want it to do a few things correctly. But all I get is more death by enhancement.

Well, I guess I typed up a post after all. If you’ll excuse, I need to bang my head against a wall.

 

– 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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Your DNA

Billions of years* ago the first viruses appeared on Earth. (The very first one called herself, “Frieda.”) Hundreds of millions of years* ago, the first critters made their way on to land to dry off. 3.2 million years back, Lucy of Olduvai Gorge celebrated the very first sweet sixteen party for young girls. Sure, we’ve all evolved considerably since, but what has remained constant all that time? What does your DNA have in common with that of Frieda the Virus?

Just two things. They’re shown below.

* = Within two weeks, precision has its limits.

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– 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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Saoto

Surinamese Soup

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SAOTO

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INGREDIENTS – BROTH­
1 pound chicken breast, boneless
1 small onion
3 garlic cloves
1 lemongrass stalk
1″ galangal root
4 cups chicken broth
4 cups water
3 berries allspice
1 Indonesian bay or bay leaf
2 teaspoons soy sauce
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INGREDIENTS – REST
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1 stalk celery
½ pound rice vermicelli
6 hard boiled eggs
½ pound bean sprouts
2 cups shredded cabbage
2 teaspoons sambal kecap, sambal oelek, or sriracha
½ cup shoestring potatoes
½ cup crispy fried onions
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SPECIAL UTENSIL
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spice grinder
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Serves 6. Takes 1 hour 45 minutes.
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PREPARATION – BROTH
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Cut chicken into 2″ cubes. Dice onion. Mince garlic cloves. Mince inner green part of lemongrass. Use spice grinder to grind galangal into little bits. Add chicken broth and water to large pot. Bring to boil using high heat. Add chicken cubes, galangal, onion, garlic, lemongrass, allspice, bay leaf, and soy sauce to large pot. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 hour. Remove chicken cubes with slotted spoon. Shred chicken using two forks.
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PREPARATION – REST
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Which broth simmers, dice celery. Break rice vermicelli into manageable lengths. Slice eggs in two. Add 2 egg halves to each soup bowl and an equal amount of bean sprouts, celery, cabbage, rice vermicelli, sambal, and chicken to each bowl. Ladle an equal amount of broth into bowls. Garnish with shoestring potatoes, and  crispy fried onion
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TIDBITS
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1) Once upon a time lived three squirrels called Berry, Onion, and Galangal.
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2) They all lived in their own tidbits in the far-off land of Surinam.
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3) They loved to eat Saoto.
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4) But the soup, Saoto, required chicken broth.
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5) But this was long ago. (See tidbit 1.) There were no supermarkets. So they couldn’t go down Aisle 7 and fill up their cart with chicken broth. What to do? What to do?
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6) “Why not encourage that roving herd of feral chickens to take baths in our little tide pool?” said Berry.
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7) “Yes, yes.” Onion flapped her little wings in excitement and actually flew 239 feet. This would be a record that would stand for millennia.
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8) Onion flapped her way back. Berry and Galangal spent the time looking for worms.
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9) “Well,” said Onion. “If the chickens spend enough time in the tide pool, we can use the water as chicken broth.
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10) It was at this time, Berry and Galangal pointed out to Onion, that he was, indeed, a squirrel and couldn’t have taken to the sky flapping chicken wings.
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11) “Well,” squeaked Onion, “you’re not chickens either. You’re squirrels. You shouldn’t be eating worms. Shame on you.”
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12) Stronger words were soon squeaked. Fur flew so freely that it blotted out the sky.” This was the first solar fur eclipse.
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13) There have been exactly sixteen such eclipses since then.
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14) The author is taking advantage of the squirrel fight to find out if squirrels are vegetarian.
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15) No they are not. Although they primarily nuts and such stuff, they will chow down on meat if the opportunity arises.
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16) However, I suppose a squirrel could remain a vegetarian for life. It could even be vegan. I mean how, on Earth, are squirrels going to milk a cow?
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17) Anyway, Berry, Onion, and Galangal having established themselves as omnivores, secure once more in their squirrelness, and realizing that their time in Tidbit Land was nearing the bottom of the page, made themselves some yummy Saoto soup.
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18) And they all lived happily ever after.
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– 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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Short Post Today, I made cookies

A big batch. I also couldn’t use my office for a long time.

 

– 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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Deep Thought Man Ponders Capone

Deep Thought Man #9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

– 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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