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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.

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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Air Fry Twinkies

Posted on September 28, 2024 by pauldelancey

American Dessert

AIR FRY TWINKIES(tm)

INGREDIENTS

4 Twinkies

2¼ teaspoons confectioners’ sugar

SPECIAL UTENSILS

air fryer

parchment paper

Serves 4. Takes 18 minutes.

PREPARATION

Line air fryer with parchment paper. Preheat air fryer for 3 minutes at 350 degrees. Add as many Twinkies will fit without touching each other. Keep temperature at 350 degrees. Air fry for 3 minutes. Turn Twinkies over. Air fry for 3 more minutes or until golden brown and crispy. Dust Twinkies with confectioners’ sugar.

TIDBITS

1) Life did a lot of experimenting early on, particularly during the Age of Dinosaurs.

2) One of the more exciting species from that time was the Bioluminescent Lighter Than Air pteroturtles. Here, evolution provided the pteroturtles with a rather nifty way to escape nasty huge sea creatures. When attacked, the pteroturtle would use its lighter than air quality to rocket to the surface and away from the jaws of a large dinofish. Unfortunately, being lighter than air meant being lighter than air and so, the pteroturtles would ascend their way out of the atmosphere. On the plus side, however, if a whole lot of ptero-turtles rocketed their way up and out of the sky at the same time, their bioluminescent streaks would outdo anything Northern Lights could ever do. It remains to add, that the species eggs were also lighter than air. This meant the p-turtles eggs zip to outer space in their only hour of life. This species went extinct rather quickly.

3) Another evolutionary dead end was the Creamteethosaurus. The Creamteethosaurus resembled the T-rex in almost every aspect except that it possessed teeth rather resembling a Twinkie. Sure Twinkies taste wonderful, but there not much use when use when you want to rip off a chunk of Apatosaurus butt. One bite and all the cream in your teeth ooze out. Now you have no teeth. So, you can’t eat any meat. You can’t really any vegetation either. Sure you could have survived on tofu and smoothies, but those goodies wouldn’t appear on the scene for millions upon millions of years. The Creamteethosaurus also died out quickly.

4) Early cavemen yearned for cream filled treats. Indeed, the Aubergine Cave paintings prove this. However, we have Twinkies. We can even air fry them. Truly, we live in a golden age.

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

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Cuban Cascos de Guayaba (Guava Shells with Cheese)

Posted on July 21, 2022 by pauldelancey

Cuban Dessert

CASCOS DE GUAYABA
(Guava Shells With Cheese)

INGREDIENTS

1 15-ounce can guava shells in syrup*
8 ounces cream cheese

* = Found in Hispanic supermarkets or online.

Serves 4. Takes 15 minutes.

PREPARATION

Remove guava shells from syrup. Keep syrup. Add ½ tablespoon to 2 tablespoons cream cheese to guava shell. (Amount depends on size of guava shell.). Drizzle 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon syrup over each guava shell with cream cheese, again depending on the size of the shell. Repeat for each guava shell. Goes well with saltine crackers.

TIDBITS

1) I had to go online to order guava shells in syrup.

2) They traveled the entire country by truck. They arrived by truck. The whole process took days. Fortunately, I planned to prepare this dessert for family. They were willing to wait days.

3) But if instead, I am regaling my business associates about Cascos De Guayaba. I’m really selling how great it tastes when I made it. I can see them starting to drool.

4) Finally, my boss snaps. “Dang, that sounds great,” he says, “I sure could go for some good Cascos de Guayaba. Whip me up a batch right now and I’ll make you vice president. And if you can’t, well . . .” He draws a finger across his throat. I’ll be clearing out my desk tomorrow.

5) But it doesn’t have to end this way. What if I could launch millions of bags of Cascos de Guayaba into the outer atmosphere? Higher than where planes fly, of course. I am nothing, if not careful.

6) Anyway, I’ll have billions of freezer bags full of this delicious dessert orbiting the Earth. All you have to do is order. With seconds a package of Cascos of Guyaba will be directly over your house. A little parachute will deploy. Your dessert will drift precisely to your doorstep. You will be able to make this dessert for your boss. You will become vice president. Your life will be good, very good.

7) But won’t billions of bags of Cascos de Guayaba in the atmosphere block out the Sun, at least to an extent? Won’t that temperatures to fall? Yes. But that what’s needed to stop global warning. I see a Nobel prize in my future.

Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D

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Slow Cooker Dr. Pepper Ham

Posted on April 20, 2022 by pauldelancey

American Entree

SLOW COOKER DR. PEPPER HAM

INGREDIENTS

1 12-ounce can Dr. PepperTM
3 tablespoons brown mustard
¾ cup brown sugar
5 pounds boneless or 5½ pounds bone-in ham

SPECIAL UTENSIL

slow cooker

Serves 8. Takes 4 hours 45 minutes.

PREPARATION

Add Dr. Pepper, brown mustard, brown sugar, and brown mustard to mixing bowl. Mix with whisk or fork until well blended. Add ham. Turn ham until well coated. Poke holes in ham with toothpick or skewer. Add ham to slow cooker. Ladle Dr. Pepper mixture over ham. Cook on high for 2 hours 15 minutes. Turn ham over. Cook on high for another 2 hours 15 minutes. Slice ham while hot.

That’s it! That’s the length of the ingredients’ list. That’s the length of the preparation; just one paragraph, I love cooking. I find it therapeutic and satisfying. So, I sometimes love complicated and time-consuming dishes. But every one in a while, it’s such fun to make something simple.

TIDBITS

1) Ham is red. Dr. Pepper is reddish.

2) Mars is red.

3) Mars is a gigantic Dr. Pepper ham.

4) It was made in a huge slow cooker.

5) Mars has almost no atmosphere. Our Earth has quite a good atmosphere. We’re very proud of it.

6) So, it stands to reason air-breathing Martians came to our planet quite a long time ago.

7) How do we know this? We Earthlings eats lots of ham, just like the Martians. Also, we love MarsTM bars. QED.

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

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Secrets of the Universe # 1 – Saturn’s Moon Is An Egg Yolk

Posted on January 28, 2022 by pauldelancey

The building blocks of the Universe aren’t hydrogen, nitrogen, iron, and other elements. No. Eggs make up the most important part of all the galaxies. In fact, culinary astrophysicists believe the Universe came from one incredibly dense chicken egg.

Then the colossal egg exploded, just like when you’ve forgotten about an egg you’re boiling. First, the egg water boils the egg. Then the water evaporates, just like what happened to Mars’ atmosphere. At this point, all the energy from the burner goes into the egg. The egg heats up until it can no longer contain all the incoming heat. The egg explodes, flinging bits of egg in all directions. This is know as the Big Egg Bang Theory, or BEBT.

The Earth’s egginess has been hidden by millions of years of accumulating egg-shell dust, aka, soil. But you really can see the Solar System’s egginess in one of Jupiter’s moons, Titan. Look at the two photos below. The one on the left is one of NASA’s images of Titan. The picture on the right is a hardboiled egg yolk. They are the same. They’re the same! Titan is made of egg. Proof you cannot deny.

Titan Hardboiled Egg Yolk

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

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Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project – Part 5