Posts Tagged With: Comic Chef

Death By Paper Cuts

Posted on September 13, 2023 by pauldelancey

Definition #2

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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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My Favorite Funny TV shows – Part 5

Posted on September 8, 2023 by pauldelancey

Waiting for its favorite comedy to come on

So many good, funny shows to remember. I’m probably forgetting some great shows. Some I never saw. I enjoyed all the ones in this list. See parts 1 to 4 for more funny shows

Ambassadors
Everybody Loves Raymond
Flintsones
It’s Garry Shandling’s Show
Jerry Seinfeld
Maude
Mork & Mindy
Office, The
On the Move
Saturday Night Live (Can vary wildly from year to year and host to host.)
South Park (Some might find this too crude.)
Trial and Error*
Upstart Crow
Up the Women*
Your Show of Shows

* = Show is side splittingly funny and I wished there had been more episodes.

 

– 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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Cool Vanilla Latte

Posted on September 6, 2023 by pauldelancey

American Appetizer

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COOL VANILLA LATTE

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INGREDIENTS
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2 cups coffee, cold
⅔ cup sugar
4 cups milk
2 tablespoons vanilla syrup
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SPECIAL UTENSILS
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covered pitcher or mason jars equal to 7½ cups
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Serves 6. Takes 10 minutes.
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Note: You can make other Cool Latte flavors by changing the syrup flavor, caramel for example.
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PREPARATION
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Add all ingredients to large mixing bowl. Stir with whisk or fork until sugar dissolves.  Keep refrigerated.
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TIDBITS
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1) You should make this. It’s so tasty and simple to put together. It’s also economical. I figure using the ingredients I bought that it cost me 4¢ an ounce while the major brands’ versions run 18¢ to 25¢. Making your own tuna sandwich with tuna and mayonnaise is also easy and much cheaper than buying premade ones in the deli. There are many other instances where making your own is cheaper and more satisfying than purchasing processed foods and drinks.
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2) Now, suppose your neighbor is a complete oaf who blasts his music all night and says all sorts of hurtful things. You’d like to make him stop, but he’s much taller and stronger than you. What to do?
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3) The first thing that naturally comes to mind is to get a AH-64e v6 Apache attack helicopter. According to Boeing’s website, “AH-64E v6 is a lethal, survivable and agile system providing the reach, maneuverability and performance needed by ground forces and contributes to current and future joint mission success.” Just what you need for dealing with that next-door brute.
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4) And since I convinced you with the first tidbit to make your own things, you’re going to give building a AH-64e a go. Good for you! Unfortunately, it takes quite a lot of time–much longer than mixing up a Cool Vanilla Latte. Thus, you’re really unlikely to get your chopper up and flying before a dying and rapidly expanding Sun overwhelms the Earth. Especially if you’re unskilled in electronics. No, if you really wish to achieve overwhelming air supremacy over the beastly neighbor, you need to raid your savings account or look under sofa cushions and buy a $130 million AH-64E v6. If that price is too steep for you, wait for Labor Day sales or settle for a v5.
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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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The Horrible Truth

Posted on September 5, 2023 by pauldelancey

 

 

 

– 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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Misheard Lyrics of Arethra Franklin

Posted on September 4, 2023 by pauldelancey

Did any of you ever think Arethra Franklin sang “unnatural” instead of “a natural” in the song “A Natural Woman?” Didn’t it change the meaning of the song just a bit? Indeed.

Misheard Lyrics #6

– 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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Deep Thought Man Ponders Home

Posted on September 2, 2023 by pauldelancey

We’ve all had these thoughts.

Deep thought #12

– 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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You Need to See a Bunny Eating a Flower

Posted on September 1, 2023 by pauldelancey

Is anything more soothing as a bunny eating a flower?
There’s one below.

Bunny! Because it’s in all our genes to say, “Bunny!” whenever we see one.

You need to see #31

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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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