Posts Tagged With: American

Vanilla Frosting

Posted on December 7, 2023 by pauldelancey

American Dessert

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VANILLA FROSTING

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INGREDIENTS
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½ cup butter, softened
3½ cups confectioners’ sugar
3 tablespoons whole milk, room temperature
1¼ teaspoons vanilla extract
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Makes enough to frost 2 9″ cakes. Takes 15 minutes.
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PREPARATION
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Add butter and confectioners’ sugar to large mixing bowl. Blend with electric beater set on medium until mixture becomes fluffy. Add whole milk and vanilla extract. Blend using electric beater set on medium until frosting become fluffy and smooth.
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TIDBITS
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1) Most people believe that punk rock is a relatively new phenomenon*, starting in the 1970s. Modern punk rock’s features electric guitars. The first widely popular punk was the Sex Pistols.
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2) * = By the way, phenomenon** is a hard word to spell. So, is the song “Mahna Mahna” as sung by the Muppets(tm)
, which in turn was heavily based on “Mah Nà, Mah Nà,” by Piero Umiliani.
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3) Anyway, culinary musical historians tell us that punk-rock first surfaced in 1587. There were no electric guitars in 1587, because there were no electrical outlets. Nor many giga watt electrical power stations either during the reign of Elizabeth II. Nor many true guitars. In fact, the Elizabethan Age’s punkest musical instrument, the violin, was invested during her reign. Go, good Queen Bess.
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4) Philip II of Spain, a fervent Catholic, hated Liz’s Protestant England. Catholics and Protestants all over loathed each other. Indeed, Monarchs often burned followers of the wrong religion, Speaking of burning heretics, you were wise not to bring up religion at BBQs or any gathering, really.
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5) Then in early 1588, Flagrant Violins, the first true punk band, came out with “Philip II is a Fathead.” The song hit the top of the charts. An already irate Phil hit the roof. Indeed, he ordered the construction of the mighty Armada to conquer England.
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6) English sailors and cold winter winds destroyed the Armada. Spain would never again threaten England. But it had been a near thing. So, good Queen Bess forbad punk rock music until April 1, 1970. The anagram loving queen even ordered Flagrant Violins to change its name to Vanilla Frosting. English chefs thought, “Vanilla Frosting, what a good idea!” Which is why we have cakes with this frosting. Life is good.
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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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Lemon Cooler Cookies

Posted on November 30, 2023 by pauldelancey

American Dessert

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LEMON COOLER COOKIES

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INGREDIENTS – COOKIES
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¼ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
2 cups flour
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cup butter, softened
1 egg
½ tablespoon fresh lemon zest
4 teaspoons lemon juice
1 cup sugar
¾ teaspoon lemon extract or vanilla extract
1¼ cup confectioners’ sugar
7 packages True LemonTM crystals *
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* = Available in stores or online.
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SPECIAL UTENSILS
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electric beater
parchment paper
2 baking sheets
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Makes 48 cookies. Takes 4 hours.
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PREPARATION – COOKIES
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Add baking powder, baking soda, flour, and salt to medium mixing bowl. Mix with whisk or fork until well blended. Add butter, egg, fresh lemon zest, lemon juice, sugar, and lemon extract to large mixing bowl. Blend with electric beater set on medium until thoroughly blended. Gradually add dry mix to large mixing bowl. Blend with electric beater set on medium until dough is thoroughly blended. Cover and refrigerate dough for 1 hour 30 minutes.
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While cookies cool, add confectioners’ sugar and True Lemon crystals to small mixing bowl. Stir with whisk or fork until well blended. Preheat oven to 340 degrees. Place parchment paper on cookie sheets. Roll dough into little balls about 1″ wide. Place dough balls on parchment paper. Leave a 1″ gap between dough balls. Bake at 340 degrees for 12 minutes or until golden brown. (Baking times for any successive batches may vary.) Let cookies cool for 2 minutes before transferring with a spatula to wire rack or cold plate.
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After the 2 minutes elapse, add cookies to bowl with confectioners’ sugar/True Lemon mix. Gently turn cookies until there are completely coated with mix. Let coated cookies sit for 1 hour or until completely cooled. Add coated cookies back to confectioners’ sugar/True Lemon mix and gently turn cookies until are completely coated again.
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TIDBITS
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1) Snowball fights are fun, especially for the kids.
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2) As you can get older snowball fights begin to lose their appeal. For one thing, these fights only when snows sticks to the ground.
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3) When that happens, the adults have to shovel sidewalks.
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4) We have to drive in snow. Our cars kid snow turns to ice.
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5) We have to wear parks, snow boots, and long johns. Oh my.
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6) How can we make winter more fun?  By injecting the winter months with philosophy.
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7) “I think it’s cold, therefore I shiver.” Rene Descartes.
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8) Well, that didn’t help much, did it?  Rene turned to his chef friend, Pattes de Mouche for help. Pattes added lemon zest, lemon juice, and lemon extract to snow balls. Yellow snow ball fights adorned wintry French countryside and cities. What fun!
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9) Until January 17, 1665 a peasant called Jacques Bonnhome threw a rather icy snowball at King Louis XIV, the Sun King. It hit the Big Cheese in the temple.
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10) Now, Louis was already quite crabby being a sun king in the middle of winter. After all, what was this point of being king of the Sun whine he couldn’t command it to melt away snow.
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11) Anyway, the snowball rather hurt. Already barely hinged, Louis became completely so and declared war on just about everybody.
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12) His constant wars drained the French treasury and impoverished the peasantry.
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13) Indeed, Louis XVI had to convene the first French parlement in over 100 years to levy taxes on the nobles. The aristocracy objected. Things were said in anger, words that couldn’t be taken back such as, “Ta maman.” Things got out of hand.
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14) Discontent burgeoned to such an extent that many people lost their heads and soon we had the ever so messy French Revolution. Things didn’t really settle down until the establishment of the Third French Revolution in 1871.
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15) Suitably aware of the terrifying consequences of yellow snowballs, the government banned them. But what were the men who sold the ingredients that made these yellow spheres to do?
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16) Unemployed lemon zest, lemon juice, and lemon extract makers almost started an second revolution. But then chef Jaune Poivre baked the Lemon Cooler Cookies of this recipe. French lemon growers now had a market for their goods. Peace and harmony would henceforth reign in France, with the exception of a world war or two. Now, you know.
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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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Dinner Rolls

Posted on October 30, 2023 by pauldelancey

American Appetizer

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DINNER ROLLS

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INGREDIENTS
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2¼ teaspoons dry active yeast
⅓ cup lukewarm water
¼ teaspoon sugar (7 teaspoons more later)
2½ tablespoons melted butter (2 tablespoons more later)
½ cup milk, lukewarm
½ teaspoon salt
7 teaspoons sugar
2¼ cups flour (2 more tablespoons later)
1½ tablespoons flour
no-stick spray
2 tablespoons melted butter
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SPECIAL UTENSILS
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electric beater
8″ round casserole dish
bench scraper/chopper or long non-serrated knife
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Makes 15 rolls. Takes 2 hours 35 minutes.
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PREPARATION
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Add yeast and lukewarm water to small mixing bowl. Mix with fork until well blended. Sprinkle ¼ teaspoon sugar on top. Let sit for 10 minutes or until bubbles. Add 2½ tablespoons melted butter, milk, salt, and 7 teaspoons sugar to large mixing bowl. Mix with spatula until salt and sugar dissolve. Let cool to room temperature.
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Add yeast mixture to large mixing bowl. Mix with fork until well blended. Gradually add 2¼ cups flour while mixing with electric beater set on medium. Mix until a slightly sticky dough ball forms. Dust flat surface with 1½ tablespoons flour. Remove dough ball to flat surface. Knead for 5 minutes until dough is smooth and elastic. Spray large mixing bowl with no-stick spray. Add dough ball to large mixing bowl. Rotate dough until covered with spray. Cover bowl with towel. Let sit for 30 minutes or until doubled in size.
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Push down on dough. Roll dough into a log 15″ long and 1″ wide. Use bench scraper to cut log into 15 pieces. Shape 15 pieces into smooth balls. Spray casserole dish with no-stick spray. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Add smooth dough balls to casserole dish. Cover with towel and let sit for 1 hour or until fluffy. Bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes or until tops of rolls turn golden brown. Brush tops of rolls with 2 tablespoons melted butter.
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TIDBITS
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1) Doing dishes makes the kitchen clean, which makes you happy.
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2) But, pondering the infinite brings enlightenment.
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3) What will you chose?
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4) May I suggest alternating 5-minute bursts of each activity?
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5) While achieving enlightenment, I had the following stream of consciousness.
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6) Can you have a stream of consciousness while asleep or even unconscious?
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7) Unconscious is a hard word to spell.
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8) You can see that I spelled it right.
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9) You’ll have to take my word for it that I spelled it right on the very first try. Go me.
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10) Somehow this segues into how we developed before birth.
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11) Prehistoric peoples believed we started out as very tiny version of the baby that would eventually pop out of mama.
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12) How do we know this? Go to the Courgette Library in Bordeaux, France. Find the research department and ask to see the ground breaking Greatest Texts of Prehistory by Farine du Ble.
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13) Nowadays, culinary biologists say that we began as a single, undifferentiated cell.
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14) This cell doubled into two slightly unlike* cells.
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15) * = I used my thesaurus to come up with a different word for different.
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16) This doubling process kept going until we had nearly 15 slightly dissimilar cells like in the above photo.
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17) Eventually this doubling process stops. We don’t increase twofold the day before birth.
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18) But what if this repetitive course continues after birth?
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19) Eventually, we’d get as big as Uranus.
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20) We’d also possess a staggering number of specialized cells.
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21) We’d most likely quite sport an impressive number of super-hero skills.
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22) Which we’d need if we were truly as enormous as Uranus.
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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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Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Word: Amerisplaining

Posted on October 22, 2023 by pauldelancey

Awesome entry #26

– 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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Apple Cinnamon Cookies With Maple Icing

Posted on October 18, 2023 by pauldelancey

American Dessert

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APPLE CINNAMON COOKIES WITH MAPLE ICING

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INGREDIENTS – COOKIES
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½ cup butter, softened
¾ cup brown sugar
1 egg
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
¾ teaspoon baking soda
1¼ teaspoons cinnamon
2 cups flour
½ teaspoon salt
1⅓ cups diced*, peeled apple (Your preference: Granny Smith = tart, Fuji = sweet)
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* = 1 Granny Smith apple
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INGREDIENTS – ICING
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1 cup confectioners’ sugar
2 teaspoons milk
½ tablespoon maple syrup
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SPECIAL UTENSILS
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electric beater
2 baking sheets
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Makes 30 cookies. Takes 40 minutes.
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PREPARATION – COOKIES
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add butter and brown sugar to large mixing bowl. Blend with electric beater set on medium until mixture becomes fluffy. Add egg and vanilla extract. Blend with electric beater set on medium until thoroughly blended.
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Add baking soda, cinnamon, flour and salt to medium mixing bowl. Mix with whisk or fork until well blended. Gradually add this dry mix to large mixing bowl. Blend with electric beater set on medium until dough is thoroughly blended. Fold in diced apple.
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Roll dough into little balls about 1″ wide. Leave a 1″ gap between dough balls. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes or until golden brown. (Baking times for any successive batches may vary.) Let cookies cool for 2 minutes before transferring with a spatula to wire rack or cold plate. Let cookies sit until completely cool.
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PREPARATION – ICING
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While cookies bake, add confectioners’ sugar, maple syrup, and milk to small mixing bowl. Mix with fork until thoroughly blended. Use knife to gently spread icing over cookies.
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TIDBITS
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1) It is worth restating from time to time that not all cookies are particularly fleet of foot.
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2) Please notice that the last two letters of “of” are “of.” It’s true. You can tell just by looking.
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3) The first two letters of “foot” are “fo.”
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4) Culinary linguists call whenever the first two letters of the second word are the reverse of the last two letters of the previous word an “offo.”
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5) Use this fact to amaze you fellow partiers. It’s also a sure-fire pick-up line.
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6) Friend: How did you get Miss America 2009 to come home with you?
You: I used the “offo” fact.
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7) See, proof you cannot deny.
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8) Anyway, not all cookies can move on their own.
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9) True, all cookies next to fault line, such as the San Andreas, clearly move in one direction or another. However, culinary seismologists don’t count as cookian–adjective for cookies–self propulsion.
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10) However, some cookies do move rather quickly.
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11) In fact, culinary sports announcers, will tell you after they’ve had a few, that Apple Cinnamon Cookies With Maple Glazing can move rather fast. Indeed, these apple cookies set the record for the 1500 meters with a speed of 2 minutes 2 seconds.
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12) Unfortunately, poor-sports human had Apple Cinnamon Cookies With Maple Glazing from Olympic individual foot races, giving the spurious excuse that Maple Glazing is a banned substance.
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13) However, the humans felt no need to ban Apple Cinnamon Cookies With Maple Glazing from relay racing.
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14) So, these cookies hold their own marathons. They celebrate diversity with all types of cookies encouraged to enter. Poway, California holds one every April 1st. Book you hotel rooms early.
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15) Be sure to look for the Apple Cinnamon Cookies with their Maple Glazing uniforms.
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16) Please refrain from eating cookies in front of the contestants. It rather hurts their feelings.
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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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Green Goddess Dressing

Posted on September 27, 2023 by pauldelancey

American Appetizer

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GREEN GODDESS DRESSING

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INGREDIENTS
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4 anchovies*
2 tablespoons lemon juice
¾ cup mayonnaise
½ cup sour cream
2 tablespoons diced fresh chives
½ tablespoon fresh dill
2 garlic cloves
⅔ cup fresh parsley
¼ teaspoon pepper
¼ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon fresh tarragon
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* = 2 teaspoons anchovy paste or ½ the anchovy bits in a 2-ounce can.
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SPECIAL UTENSIL
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food processor or blender
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PREPARATION
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Add all ingredients to food processor. Blend until smooth. Use now. Transfer unused portion to Mason jar. Store in refrigerator. Keeps for 1 week.
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TIDBITS
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1) Nearly all dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago (66 mya) when a bloody minded comet slammed into the Earth. The Dinosaur Greeting Card company died out as well. Both are mourned. Only a small percentage of dinosaurs survived this mass extinction. Those that did evolved into birds. But they never lost their dinosaurial–if that is indeed a word–traits. So a condor is a bird. An eagle is a bird. The pigeon that craps on your car is a dinosaur.
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2) The two-ounce hummingbird is a dinosaur. As of press time, the largest dinosaur, amphicoelias fragillimus weighed 100 to 150 tons. That’s quite a weight variance. Perhaps Amphi Fragilli alternated between dieting and binge eating.
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3) Anyway, gigantic mobile plants such as: estranikon (tarragon), anitho (dill) and maintanos (parsley) walked the land after the comet crash. Alas, for this vibrant, burgeoning genus, kinita votana, dinosaur birds and mammals stalked the active plants as an abundant source of vitamin-rich food.
 Noting that their mobility garnered the attention of their predators, mobile plants evolved into stationary and much smaller plants, like the ones we grow or buy at the store. This dish, Green Goddess Dressing honors the survival of these herbs.

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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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Banana Split

Posted on September 12, 2023 by pauldelancey

American Dessert

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BANANA SPLIT

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INGREDIENTS­
2½ tablespoons hot fudge sauce or chocolate syrup
1 banana
1 scoop chocolate ice cream*
1 scoop strawberry ice cream*
1 scoop vanilla ice cream*
½ tablespoon roasted chopped peanuts
¼ cup whipped cream**
3 maraschino cherries with stems
¼ teaspoon sprinkles (optional)
* = Should be fairly firm.
** = Oh heck, spray or spoon as much whipped cream as you want.
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SPECIAL UTENSIL
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banana split boat or small oval dish
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Serves 1 or 2. Takes 5 minutes.
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PREPARATION
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Microwave hot fudge sauce for 20 seconds or put hot fudge sauce in small pot. Heat on low until sauce becomes warm and fluid. Peel banana and split in half along its length.
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Place banana halves cut sides face up in banana split boat. Put ice cream scoops between banana halves. Drizzle hot fudge sauce over ice cream. Sprinkle chopped peanuts over fudge sauce. Spoon whipped cream over peanuts. Sprinkle sprinkles over whipped cream. Top everything with maraschino cherries.
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Note: Work quickly if the temperature in your kitchen is 90 degrees or more.
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TIDBITS
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1) In 1904, David Evans Strickler, of Tassel Pharmacy created first banana split for the nearby sweet-toothed college students of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The tasty dessert spread like wildfire across the world. Alas, swirling controversy enveloped the tasty dish with multiple towns claiming to have created the first banana split. In 2004 the National Association of Ice Cream Retailers (NAICR) declared Latrobe to be the birthplace of the banana split. Nine years later the Pennsylvania Museum and Historical Commission placed a plaque at the former site of Tassel Pharmacy. Someone later,  perhaps at midnight, erected a gigantic banana split statue nearby. Show up there to see the activities of Latrobe’s annual Great American Banana Split Celebration. Be sure to go there and see how exciting and tasty history really can be. Latrobe welcomes you with open arms and split bananas.
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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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Strawberry Cucumber Water

Posted on September 9, 2023 by pauldelancey

American Appetizer

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STRAWBERRY CUCUMBER WATER

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INGREDIENTS – MAIN
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½ pound strawberries (¼ pound more later)
5″ cucumber (2½” more later)
8 cups water
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INGREDIENTS – GARNISH
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¼ pound strawberries
2½” cucumber
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SPECIAL UTENSILS
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mandoline (optional)
colander
2½ quart or larger pitcher
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Serves 8. Takes 30 minutes plus 3 hours to refrigerate
PREPARATION – MAIN
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Remove stems from ½ pound strawberries. Slice strawberries as thinly as you can. Cut 5″ cucumber into slices 1/16″ to ¼” thick. Add strawberry slices, cucumber slices, and water to pitcher. Refrigerate for 3 hours. Strain contents through colander. Discard solids. This is the infused water. Return infused water to pitcher. Keeps for 3 days in refrigerator.
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PREPARATION – GARNISH
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Remove stems from ¼ pound strawberries. Slice strawberries as thinly as you can. Cut 2½” cucumber into slices 1/16″ to ¼” thick. Garnish with strawberries and cucumber slices before serving. Stir 2 times with long wooden spoon.
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TIDBITS
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1) Engineers do extensive analysis before building. This usually includes constructing a scale model and subjecting it to all sorts of tests.
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2) In this case a city, which shall remain nameless, wanted to build a bridge to tout their thriving strawberry and cucumber industries. This meant making the world’s first strawberry/cucumber bridge. Alas, the bridge failed on the very first and simple test. With the strawberry slices collapsing catastrophically under the weight of cucumber slices. (See the submerged red slices above.) A bridge that collapses under the weight of small vegetable slices is likely to collapse under the weight of vehicular traffic and even pedestrian traffic. City planners abandoned the fruit hybrid bridge.
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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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Maple Sausage Patties

Posted on August 31, 2023 by pauldelancey

American Breakfast

MAPLE SAUSAGE PATTIES

INGREDIENTS
1 pound ground pork
5 teaspoons maple syrup
½ teaspoon garlic powder
¾ teaspoon fennel seeds
¾ teaspoon garlic powder
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon onion powder
¼ teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon sage
¾ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon thyme
no-stick spray
Serves 4. Takes 50 minutes.
PREPARATION
Add all ingredients except spray to mixing bowl. Mix with hands until well blended. Shape into 8 3″ patties. Place patties on plate. Cover. Let sit in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Spray large pan with no-stick spray. Add patties to pan. Cook at medium heat for 4 minutes or until bottom of patties turn brown. Move patties occasionally to prevent sticking. Flip patties over and cook for 3 minutes more or until the new bottom of the patties brown. Move patties occasionally to prevent sticking.
TIDBITS
1) Maple Sausage Patties, a tongue twister.
Maple Meat Patties
Maple meat meal
Miss Marple’s meat meal
Mabel, Miss Marple’s meat meal
Marvel Mabel, Miss Marple’s meat meal
Marvel Mabel, Miss Marple’s marbled meat meal
Marvel maven Mabel, Miss Marple’s marbled meat meal
Mean marvel maven Mabel. Miss Marple’s marbled meat meal
Marvel mean maven Maiden Mabel, Miss Marple’s marbled meat meal.
Meet mean marvel maven Maiden Mabel, Miss Marple’s marbled meat meal.
Meet mean marvel maven Maiden Mabel, Miss Marple’s many marbled meat meals.
Meet mean marvel maven Maiden Mabel, Miss Marple made many marbled meat meals.
Meet mean marvel maven Maiden Mabel, Miss Marple made mainly many marbled meat meals.
Meet mean marvel maven Maiden Mabel, Mad Ms. Marple made mainly many marbled meat meals.
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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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Strawberry Balsamic Chicken

Posted on August 15, 2023 by pauldelancey

American Entree

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STRAWBERRY BALSAMIC CHICKEN

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INGREDIENTS­
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⅔ pound (about 2 cups) strawberries
4 chicken breasts
½ teaspoon pepper
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup balsamic vinegar (½ cup more later)
½ cup balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
½ tablespoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon fresh basil
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SPECIAL UTENSIL
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8″ * 12″ casserole dish.
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Serves 4.  Takes 1 hour 45 minutes.
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PREPARATION
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Remove stems from strawberries. Cut each strawberry into 4 pieces. Rub pepper and salt over chicken breasts. Add chicken breasts and ½ cup balsamic vinegar to mixing bowl. Turn chicken breasts until they are completely coated. Let marinate in refrigerator for 1 hour. Add chicken to casserole dish. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink inside.
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Add strawberry bits. Simmer at low heat for 4 minutes or until strawberry bits start to lose their shape. Add a chicken breast to each plate. Ladle strawberry glaze over chicken breasts. Goes well with rice or spinach.
Add strawberry bits. Simmer at low heat for 4 minutes or until strawberry bits start to lose their shape. Add a chicken breast to each plate. Dice basil. Ladle strawberry glaze over chicken breasts. Garnish with basil. Goes well with rice or spinach.
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TIDBITS
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1) At the first Iowa Caucus, the Iowa Strawberry Growers Association (ISGA) made a mad attempt to showcase their strawberries to the nation. In return the “strawberry candidates” wore strawberries on their lapels. Political analysts counted strawberries distributed to determine the ISGA’s strength. This was the first strawberry poll. Strawberry poll got shortened to straw poll to save newspaper ink. Now you know.
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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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