Monthly Archives: November 2024

Achievement Man on Losing Things

Posted on November 20, 2024 by pauldelancey

Always strive to be better. Let Achievement Man be your role model. He keeps on going in the face of great challenges.

Achievement Man #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.

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S’mores Latte

Posted on November 19, 2024 by pauldelancey

American Dessert

S’MORES LATTE

INGREDIENTS

½ teaspoon chocolate syrup (1½ tablespoons more latter)

2 tablespoons crumbled graham crackers

1½ tablespoons chocolate syrup

⅔ cup whole milk

⅔ cup espresso or strongly brewed coffee

1½ tablespoons mini-marshmallows

1 teaspoon chocolate shavings* (optional)

* = Can be made using chocolate bar and grater.

Serves 1. Takes 15 minutes.

PREPARATION

Wet both sides of the mug’s rim with ½ teaspoon chocolate syrup. Roll mug in crumbled graham crackers. Use hands to pat crumbled graham crackers to inside rim. Add 1½ tablespoons chocolate syrup and milk to small pot. Heat mixture using medium heat until nearly boiling. Stir constantly. Add coffee to mug. Add heated syrup and milk. Stir with spoon until well blended. Sprinkle latte with mini-marshmallows. Top with chocolate shavings.

TIDBITS

1) People love S’mores. People crave latte. So which is better in a head-to-head catchup, S’mores or S’mores Latte? But first what is a S’more? A S’more consists of toasted marshmallows and chocolate sandwiched between two graham crackers.

2) Which has the more toastable marshmallow? S’mores does. The large marshmallow used in S’mores lends itself better to toasting on stick over a campfire. The min-imarshmallows perform poorly here. S’mores – 1, S’mores Latte- 0.

3) Do you have a campfire in your home? Probably not. S’mores – 1, S’mores Latte – 1.

4) Do you want to go camping out in the creepy, crawly cold woods just to use a campfire? Probably not. S’mores Latte – 2, S’mores: -1.

5) Which is better at fighting off a charging Tyrannosaurus Rex? I suppose you could hit the T-Rex with your S’more, but at best it’ll just stick to the fearsome beast, because of the melted marshmallows. Or, you could throw your hot S’mores into the monster’s eyes, blinding it for minutes while you make your getaway. S’mores Latte – 3, S’mores – 1. A convincing victory for S’mores Latte. Yay.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Wanda Wunder Wonders About Farting Bees

Posted on November 18, 2024 by pauldelancey

I don’t how my mind came to ponder this.

Wanda Wunder #44

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project – Part 5

Posted on November 17, 2024 by pauldelancey

Hey! I finished the latch-hooking part of the titanic Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project. I’d like to thank the many, many bits of material who willingly let themselves be turned into bits of yarn. This project simply wouldn’t been possible without them. A shout out goes to gravity. I shudder think if it had not worked the entire life of the project. Just one day without gravity would have been chaotic. Imagine hundreds of bits of yarn floating about the room. Imagine me floating about the room. Picture people meandering around the atmosophere. Brr!

Anyway, gravity held the entire time. I finished Minnie Mouse. And I’m very thankful.

Anyway, here’s what Minnie Mouse looks like.

Minnie Mouse #5

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Plato on Finding Happiess

Posted on November 16, 2024 by pauldelancey

Plato had rock-star status as a philosopher. People listened to him. He You too should listen to him

Plato #1

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Yoga Instructor on Red Wine

Posted on November 15, 2024 by pauldelancey

Yoga Instructor reaches a startling conclusion.

Yoga Instructor #16

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Strawberry Bundt Cake

Posted on November 14, 2024 by pauldelancey

American Dessert

STRAWBERRY BUNDT CAKE

INGREDIENTS – CAKE

1 pound fresh strawberries (1 ounce more later)

2 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoons baking soda

3¼ cups flour

¾ teaspoon salt

⅔ cup butter, softened (2½ tablespoons more later)

3 eggs

1½ cups sugar

½ tablespoon vanilla extract (½ teaspoon more later)

⅔ cup vegetable oil

1 cup whole milk (2½ tablespoons more later)

2 drops red food coloring gel

no-stick baking spray

INGREDIENTS – GLAZE

1½ ounces fresh strawberries

2½ tablespoons butter, softened

1¾ cups confectioners’ sugar

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

2½ tablespoons whole milk

SPECIAL UTENSILS

electric blender

electric beater

10″ bundt pan

Serves 12. Takes 3 hours.

PREPARATION – CAKE

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add 1 pound strawberries to electric blender. Puree strawberries. Add baking powder, baking soda, flour, and salt to small mixing bowl. Mix with whisk or fork until well blended. Add ⅔ cup butter, eggs, sugar, ½ tablespoon vanilla extract, vegetable oil, and 1 cup whole milk to large mixing bowl. Mix with whisk or fork until well blended. Add pureed strawberries and red food coloring gel. Mix with whisk or fork until well blended.

Gradually add in the dry mix from the small bowl into the liquid mix of the large bowl. Mix with electric beater set on low until just combined into batter.

Generously spray bundt pan with no-stick baking spray Pour batter into bundt pan. Level batter with spatula. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Use butter knife to loosen cake from the bundt pan Let cake cool for 15 minutes. Invert cake onto plate. Let cool completely before icing.

PREPARATION – GLAZE

Add 1½ ounces fresh strawberries to blender. Puree strawberries..Add pureed strawberries, 2½ tablespoons butter, confectioners’ sugar, and ½ teaspoon vanilla extract to medium mixing bowl. Mix with electric beater set on low until well blended. .

Gradually add 2½ tablespoons whole milk or until glaze thickens and is just pourable. Pour glaze evenly over the cooled cake. Allow glaze to drip down the size. Let set for 5 minutes before serving.

TIDBITS

1) Strawberries were known as wartsberries in France in from 1178 to 1347.

2) All Medieval peasants suffered greatly from warts.

3) Their wart-free neighbors shunned them. “Ew,” said the nearby farmers.

4) Downcast, dispirited, and depressed, the wart-ridden peasants joined the King’s army in hopes of campaigning abroad.

5) What luck!. The Hundred Years War erupted, started even, in France in 1347.. Off went the English to France. Archer Jack Strawberry wasn’t even on French soil for six minutes when he stumbled, falling face first into a wartberry patch.

6) When he arose and drew himself up to 90 percent of his full height, his archer companions gasped. His warts has completely disappeared. “By St. George’s darned socks, it’s a miracle,” said Elric Sod. And with Elric’s impimatur, the entire English army rolled and rolled into the wartsberry patch. Grateful archers, men at arms, and knight renamed the wartberry to, strawberry in his honor.

7) I don’t know if you’ve ever seen it happen, but when an army miraculously loses all its warts, it becomes world beaters. “God is clearly on our side,” said Sod. “Who can stand against us.”

8) And indeed, no French army could stand up to the wartless English.

9) Then everything changed. In 1428, the Archangel Michael appeared to Joan, a peasant botanist living in the town of Do Re Me. “Joan, take your botanical knowledge to King Charles VIII; as he surely has none.”

10) So Brainy Joan made her way to the royal court. “Your majesty,” said she. “To defeat the cursed English, you must destroy every strawberry patch in France. Without strawberries, warts will once more sprout like weeds upon the soldiers. Their morale will plummet and your army will vanquish them time after time. Impressed by Joan’s piety and botanical acumen., Charles VIII did what she said. The French would evict the English for good. Brainy Joan would become Saint Joan. Yay.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.