life tips

Because I’m So Mature: Double Entendre Clown

Pepe the Clown says, “Juggle your balls.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

– 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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Food Stain Apparel – Rock the Guac

You can’t spot the guacamole stain.

How many times has this happened to you? You’re dead tired, but you went to that party anyway. Your gracious host served a tableful of wonderfully tasty Mexican food. And the guacamole was to die for.

And now, you oaf, you spilled some heavenly guacamole on your cloud-white shirt. No one’s seen it yet, but in moments they will. And you will die of shame. You yearn to escape out the door. Your conscience won’t let you. You know you’re likely to crash your car if you drive away. There’s only one thing to do. Get sleep now.  But if you go to sleep on a bed, people will notice. They’ll point at you and wake you up with their laughter. “Ha, ha,” they’ll say in unison, “look at Sleeping Beauty. Look at the guacamole stain. What a loser.”

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Not if you buy your clothes from Food Stain Apparel(tm). Our matching set of Rock the Guac(tm) matching set of shirt and pants is just the thing for this social setting. This green, surfing Batman and Robin(tm) camouflage ensemble hides any amount of guacamole. As far as your fellow revelers know, you have the adept fingers of a concert violinist.

And don’t worry about falling asleep in a bed. We’ve designed our Rock the Gauc evening wear to mimic pajamas! Our PJs blend right in with the bed. Wake up the next morning refreshed and happy. People will talk for years to come about that bon vivant violinist.

Be rested. Be confident. Buy Food Stain Apparel.

 

– 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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Pappardelle with Wild Boar Sauce

Italian Entree

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PAPPARDELLE WITH WILD BOAR* SAUCE

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INGREDIENTS – MARINADE­
2 pounds wild boar* or pork shoulder, slow reared pork, lamb, venison, or duck
1 carrot
1 stalk celery (1 stalk more later)
3 garlic cloves (2 more cloves later)
1 small onion (1 large onion later)
3 bay leaves
1 tablespoon juniper berries
½ teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons peppercorns
1 teaspoon rosemary
1 teaspoon sage
3½ cups red wine (1⅓ cups more later)
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* = Wild boar can be quite difficult to find nearby. It is also expensive online and you might be required more than you need. But if you can find it in your price range, please go for it.
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INGREDIENTS – SAUCE
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1 carrot
1 stalk celery
2 garlic cloves
1 medium onion
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 bay leaves
1⅓ cups red wine
¾ teaspoon salt
1¾ pounds (28 ounces) peeled tomatoes
1 pound pappardelle pasta
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SPECIAL UTENSIL
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sonic obliterator
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Serves 4. Takes 18 hours to marinate and 2 hours 45 minutes to cook.
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PREPARATION  – MARINADE
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Cut wild boar into ½” cubes.  Dice 1 carrot, 1 stalk celery, 3 garlic cloves, and 1 small onion. Add to all marinade ingredients to 1st large mixing bowl Mix with large spoon until well blended and boar cubes are well coated. Cover and let sit in refrigerator for at least 12 hours or 18 hours, if possible. Remove wild-boar cubes and set aside. Discard the marinade.
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PREPARATION – SAUCE
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When the time for marinating is 30 minutes from being done, dice 1 carrot, 1 stalk celery, 2 garlic cloves, and 1 medium onion. Add olive oil carrot, celery, garlic, and small-onion bits to large pot. Sauté for 2 minutes at medium heat. Stir frequently. Add wild boar. Sauté for 5 minutes at medium heat or until all sides are browned. Stir frequently. Increase heat to medium-high. Add 2 bay leaves, 1⅓ cups red wine, and salt. Cook for 10 minutes until the alcohol from the wine evaporates or until the amount of liquid reduces by half. Stir enough to prevent burning. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 10 minutes. Stir enough to keep from burning.
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Add peeled tomatoes. Mix with spoon until well blended. Cover and simmer for 1 hour 30 minutes. Stir enough to keep sauce from burning. Add water as needed if sauce starts to disappear.
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When sauce is 15 minutes from being done, cook pappardelle pasta according to instructions on package. Drain pasta. Add pasta to pot. Mix with large fork until well blended. Zap unappreciative guests with sonic obliterator. You don’t need that negativity in your kitchen.
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TIDBITS
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1) Extroverts love parties. Introverts abhor them. They’d rather visit a dentist than go to them.
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2) Introverts avoid all types of people. Extroverts evade boring people.
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3) So extroverts and introverts have something in common! Let the great rapprochement begin.
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4) How?
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5) Have the social people hire the party shirkers as bouncers. The introvert bouncers will snatch bores and toss them into the hall; never out the window, that’s wrong.
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6) Anyway, the removal of the bores ensures a lively, party filled with bon mots and sparkling wit.
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7) In return the partyphobes get paid well and get a separate room equipped with a buffet and quiet dogs and cats to pet.
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8) Party-hating bouncers belong to the Fraternal* Order of Introvert Bouncers (FOIB).
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9) How do party hosts hire the FOIBs? After all, tossing guests into the hall could very well be illegal. (It certainly is if your bouncers throw the bores out the window. Again, I say don’t do this; the law takes a rather stern view about manslaughter and grievous bodily harm.)
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10) Sorry. Anyway, bore-hating hosts follow the following script when calling FOIB.
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Bore-hating host:: Hi. We’d like to hire three bouncers for our little soirée tonight. We’re serving Pappardelle with Wild “Boar” Sauce.
FOIB: Certainly, will “guests” leave by the window or by the door?
Bore-hating host: No, no, no window. The door will be fine.
Note: In jobs like this one, the ability the speak in quotes is a great, legal plus.
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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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Achievement Man Brags About Doors

Always strive to be better. Let Achievement Man be your role model.

Achievement Man #1

 

– 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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Be the Cat Motivational Poster

Don’t delay! Turn your life around. Do this today.

 

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 Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
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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 Tips & Tricks – Challenges

The following is especially true in cooking, or so a friend told me.

Life Tip and Trick #1

 

– 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 Tips – What to do on a Rainy Day

1)  Stay inside.

2) Or go outside, if you prefer. I’m not going to be dogmatic or controlling.

3) If you opt for option 2), please use an umbrella or drive with the windows up.

4) Look out the window to see if it’s still raining.

5) If it is, say, “Look, it’s raining.”

6) Wait for people in the room to say, “Yes, sure is.”

7) Binge watch TV.

8) Play Risk(tm).

9) Learn quantum physics. It’s difficult, but it can be done.

10) Take up painting.

11) Take up latch hooking.

12) Contemplate the turning points in Carl La Fong’s life.

13) Conjugate your Portuguese verbs. Don’t let this slide. You’ll never know when you’ll end up in Brazil.

14) Make whopee with your partner.

15) Nap. Catch up on your sleep debt.

16) Look at pictures of kittens and puppies on the internet.

17) Avoid surgery.

18) Stay inside. It’s still raining.

19) Contemplate the infinite while looking at the ceiling.

20) Call Carl La Fong. It’s been such a long time and he’d love to hear from you.

21) Call home. This is especially easy when you’re home.

22) Read a book while taking a bath.

23) Pretend to book a flight to Madagascar.

24) Make a machine that says, “Repeat,” over and over to any automated online menus.

25) Before going to bed, look out the window and say, “If wonder if it’ll rain tomorrow.”

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef

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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Famous Warrior King Speaks Out

Losing his liberty and the freedom of his people to Julius Caesar was one thing, but when people mispell gall as Gaul, King Vercingetorix, King of the Gauls gets hopping mad.

 

– Paul De Lancey, 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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17 Sure Fire Ways to Lose Weight Quickly

You can make this number go down

Let’s face it, many of would like to lose weight.

Unfortunately, many of get weighed at the doctor’s office. You see your weight. You didn’t think it was that high! Goodness. The weight taker sees your weight. She writes it down. What is she thinking? It’s probably, “Tsk, tsk.”

You’re sitting in the waiting room waiting for the dread weighing. (Notice the nifty alliteration? The ancient Norsemen valued alliteration over rhyming in their poetry.)

Anyway what can you do in those precious minutes to lower the number on the scale?

I’m glad you asked.

17 GUARANTEED HACKS TO LOSE WEIGHT IN MINUTES

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1) Just before weighing, remove your wallet and set it aside. (Hey, it weighs something and it’s not even body mass. Why let it count?)

2) Remove your keys.

3) Remove your cell phone, iPad(tm), whatever.

4) Remove your glasses.

5) Remove your contact lens. (Store them carefully.)

6) Remove your shoes. (The doctor’s staff will let you do this.)

7) Remove your belt and as many as the staff will let you get away. (Still not your body mass, so why let it count?)

8) Exhale and hold your breath. (Those air molecules in your lungs must weigh something.

9) Vist the restroom and spit. (Spit has mass.)

10) Pee and poo. (They too have mass.)

11) It’s trying to poo, even the humble fart has mass.)

12) Comb your hair. (Dandruff has mass.)

13) Look for eye boogers and remove them. (Yep, mass.)

14) Clip your fingernails and toenails. (More mass.)

15) Trim your moustache and pluck your eyebrows. (Excess mass that’s staring you in the mirror.)

16) Remove all makeup and nail polish. (Mass, excess mass.)

Now face your weighting with confidence.

17) Oh, and don’t forget to blow your nose.

Get through your visit with the doctor.

Now go home and treat yourself to a chocolate doughnut, you magnificent sunbeam, you.

 

– 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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