Sometimes Wanda wonders about the same things that I do.
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.
Angry Man #4
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.
Where are my glasses?
I cannot see without them.
Oh, where did they go?
Tacos, oh tacos,
You’re the world’s tastiest food
Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm
Zombies, oh zombies,
You are ever so scary,
Just less than live folks
Do zombies need to
practice social distancing?
I dont want them close.
My glasses are lost.
Can’t see approaching zombies.
I am so, so doomed.
Science is helpful.
I often use my landline
to find my cell phone.
Laundry, oh laundry,
In apocalyptic times,
Will you still pile up?
See the butterfly.
Does it know its algebra?
Does it have a need?
Knowing calculus,
Does it help you get a date?
Or is it just looks?
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.
Angry 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.
INGREDIENTS
2 pounds pork ribs
1 tablespoon yellow mustard
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1½ tablespoons paprika
2 teaspoons salt
¼ cup barbecue sauce
SPECIAL UTENSILS
smoker
electric thermometer
wood chips (oak, apple, hickory, pecan, cherry, or mesquite)
Serves 4. Takes 5 hours. Time includes preheating the smoker. Times vary with smokers.
PREPARATION
Preheat smoker to 250 degrees. Add wood chips to smoker. While smoker heats, use brush to spread ribs with yellow mustard. (This helps keep the following rub on the ribs.) While smoker preheats, add brown sugar, chili powder, onion powder, paprika, and salt to mixing bowl. Mix with whisk or fork until well blended. Rub mixture evenly over both sides of ribs.
Add ribs to smoker rack. Insert electric thermometer in the middle of the ribs. Avoid the bones. The ribs are done when the internal meat temperature reaches 190 degrees or when the meat retracts . Remove from heat. Brush ribs with barbecue sauce. Return ribs to smoker. Smoke for 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Tear pork into individual ribs.
TIDBITS
1) The pork ribs shown above look like a butterfly. Indeed, pigs often hide in swarms of butterflies. Since they spend so much time together, it is important to compare pork ribs with butterflies.
BENEFIT PORK RIBS BUTTERFLIES
Pollinate flowers no yes
Boost tourism no yes
Provide antibiotics no yes
Keep insects under control no yes
Are Tasty yes no
There you have it, a surprise 4-to-1 victory for the butterfly.
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.
I don’t know. Do 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.
This will keep your brain up at night.
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.
Serenity is deceptive. Happiness is fragile. And karma is a bitch with a long memory and the power to punish whenever it wants and however it wants. Jess McCortney moves with her family to the idyllic town of Shy Moon Lake where you can move in, but never leave. Jess hears stories of blood rituals. She tries to uncover out the town’s history but gets stonewalled by everyone. Why are her neighbors so strange? And just why does no ever go into the beautiful lake?
The Spirit of Shy Moon Lake is a captivating read from cover to cover. Reina Lisa Menasche deftly examines karma, our yearnings, and our fears. I have enjoyed all her novels.
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.
Fair point, Genghis.
Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D., and historian
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 – STUFFED CABBAGE
¾ cup fresh cilantro
⅔ cup fresh dill
1 medium tomato
1 large onion
1 cup chopped chestnuts*
1 pound ground lamb or beef
⅓ cup rice
⅛ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon salt
1 large cabbage head
INGREDIENTS – BROTH
1 tablespoon butter
2 teaspoons sugar
1¼ cups lamb or beef broth (Broth should match meat used above, if possible.)
1½ tablespoons vinegar
* = Chopped chestnuts can be found online.
Serves 6. Takes 2 hours.
PREPARATION – STUFFED CABBAGE
Dice cilantro, dill, and tomato. Mince onion. Add cilantro, dill, tomato, onion, chestnuts, lamb, rice, cinnamon, pepper, and salt to large mixing bowl. Mix with hands until well blended.
Cut off bottom of cabbage head. Cut out as much of the white, solid core as you can. (Doing these two steps will make peeling off leaves later much easier.)
Add enough water to cover cabbage head to large pot. Bring water to boil using high heat. Carefully add cabbage head. Reduce heat to medium and continue to boil until leaves can be pulled back with a fork. Carefully remove cabbage. Drain. Wait until cabbage is cool enough to peel off the cabbages leaves.
Peel off cabbage leaf. Put 3 tablespoons lamb/chestnut mix from bowl in middle of cabbage leave. (The exact amount will vary with the changing sizes of the cabbage leaves.) Shape mix into a log, leaving 1½” uncovered along edges. Fold the short ends of the leaf to cover lamb/chestnut log. Then tightly roll leaf from the bottom. Repeat for remaining leaves save one. Reserve one leaf.
PREPARATION – BROTH
Melt butter in pan using low-medium heat. Stir enough to prevent bubbling, Remove from heat. Add sugar, butter, lamb broth, and vinegar to mixing bowl. Stir until well blended
Place reserved cabbage leaf in large pot. Add stuffed-cabbage logs to pan. Place them as closely as possible to each other to prevent unfolding. Slowly pour broth over cabbage logs. Place a lid over cabbage logs. (The lid should be a bit smaller than the pan so that it sits on the cabbage logs. (This also prevents unraveling.) Simmer at low heat for 45 minutes or until cabbage leaves are tender and the filling becomes tender.
TIDBITS
1) You can cook chestnuts in a pot.
2) You can cook them quite a lot.
3) You can cook them on a beach.
4) You can cook them with a peach.
5) You can cook them in an oven.
6) You can cook them with a coven.
7) But not one with witches.
8) For though they might grant riches.
9) They like their meat raw.
10) And that you can’t unsaw.
11) You can speed them in an electron collider.
12) Or something even much, much wider.
13) You can heat them with a torch.
14) You can heat them on a porch.
15) You can cook them in a house.
16) You can cook them for your spouse.
17) You can cook them while on a chair.
18) You can cook them everywhere.
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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