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BBQ Meatloaf

American Entree

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BBQ MEATLOAF

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INGREDIENTS
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3 garlic cloves
1 small onion
½ cup barbecue sauce (¼ cup more later)
2 pounds ground beef, ground pork, or combination
½ cup bread crumbs
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard or yellow mustard
2 eggs
½ teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon pepper
½ tablespoon salt
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
no-stick spray
¼ cup barbecue sauce
2 tablespoons fresh parsley
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Serves 6. Takes 1 hour 20 minutes.
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SPECIAL UTENSIL
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9″ * 5″ loaf pan
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PREPARATION
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mince garlic cloves and onion. Add all ingredients save no-stick spray, ¼ cup barbecue sauce and parsley to large mixing bowl. Mix well with hands.
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Spray loaf pan with no stick spray. Add beef mix to loaf pan. Smooth with spatula. Bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees. Remove from oven. Top with ¼ cup barbecu sauce. Smooth evenly with brush. Bake again for 15 minutes at 350 degrees. Dice parsley. Garnish with parsley.
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TIDBITS
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1) BBQ is short for barbecue. NRC is the abbreviation for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Folks at the NRC love BBQ as who would not? When one of their employees says, “I’m going to nuke the leftover meatloaf, does she mean she’s going to reheat in the microwave or should we be heafing to the fallout shelters?
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2) This BBQ Meatloaf recipe uses barbecue sauce.
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3) This reminds me of joke they might tell at the NRC.
Q: Why don’t they eat BBQ Meatloaf at the Chemical Safety Board?
A: The meatloaf falls through the holes in the grill. Ha! Ha! Ha!
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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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What I’m Giving Up For Lent

Giving this up for Lent

We’re encouraged to give up something for Lent. Doing so makes us a better person. So okay, I’ll forego something as well.

Sigh.

Okay, here’s my sacrifice.

I’m giving up lutefisk and mushrooms for the Lenten season.

What’s that you say? That must be hard.

It is, but I’m blessed with an iron will. Once I’ve gotten the Lenten bit between my teeth,  I keep going with my no lutefisk and no mushrooms vow until the start of next year’s Lent. Whereupon, I make a similar resolution. My resolve is in indeed unshakable. Happy Lent, everyone.

 

– 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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Schrödinger’s Page

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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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Adana Kebab

Turkish Entree

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ADANA ­KEBAB

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INGREDIENTS
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½ small red onion or onion
1 tomato
⅓ cup breadcrumbs
1 pound ground lamb
½ tablespoon salt
2½ teaspoons sumac
5 teaspoons Urfa biber*
2 tablespoons ice cold water
¼ cup  fresh parsley
2 tablespoons olive oil
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* = Also known as Urfa pepper and Isot pepper. Substitute with red pepper flakes.
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Serves 4. Takes 1 hours 30 minutes.
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PREPARATION
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Thinly slice onion and tomato. Add bread crumbs, lamb, salt, sumac, Urfa biber, and ice-cold water to mixing bowl. Mix with hands until well blended. Form into 8 logs 5″ long. These are the kebabs. Chill in refrigerator for 45 minutes.
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Add olive oil to large pan. Heat oil at medium-high heat until a few bread crumbs in the oil start to dance. Cover and grill for 5 minutes at medium-high heat or until lamb is no longer pink.inside. Turn once. Garnish with onion, tomato, and parsley. Goes well with pita loaves, lavash loaves, salad, and rice.
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TIDBITS
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1) The city of Adana is in Turkey.
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2) But I am not.
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3) You are probably not there either.
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4) So that’s one thing we have in common.
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5) You most likely have salt in your kitchen.
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6) Whoa, we are so alike!
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7) Do you like Urfa biber? I hope so as I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
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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 Great Latch Hook Project – Part 3

I started this latch hook project mostly for eye therapy–to help them work together better–and to aid my manual dexterity. I also hoped to have fun with it. I am happy to say that I’m getting better and am having more fun as a I go along. I do some work at home and once a week at a  library with a sewing-and-knitting group.

There’s around 8,600 squares to fill in, so I will take some months. And here’s what it looks life so far:

2/6/2024

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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 Phrase: Learning Plunge

Sometimes a phrase is so useful and necessary that it had been crying in the ether to be coined. Once used, we all wonder, “It’s so obvious now. How do we ever get along without that phrase?”

In today’s blog, we celebrate such an occurrence.

Why do we think that we’ll start learning to do our job right off the bat. What if we don’t? This concept leads us to:

TODAY’S AWESOME PHRASE

Learning Plunge

Awesome entry #24

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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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I Have Questions

You have been warned.

This sign confuses me.

It reads: “Prop 65 Furniture Warning”

When I first saw it, reflection from the Sun produced glare that obliterated the letters “rni” in the word “Furniture.”

The sign now apparently read: “Prop 65 Future warning.”

You have to admit that is pretty darn exciting. Are Martians from the year 2525 coming back to enslave Californians? And why are doing this? Do they want our avocados?

1)  Is the state of California, or its voters, merely trying to warn us in a big way about the future? But how are we to heed this warning?

2) Are we trying warn the future? Oh ho future, don’t mess with California.

But seen from the proper angle, the correct reading of the sign emerges.

1) But why is our furniture warning us? Are we voting our response to furniture’s warning?

2)  Is California’s furniture unruly? Is this proposition an answer to furniture hooligans? Couldn’t we simply say, “Now see here, furniture, we’ll have none of this behavior around here.”

I better read the voter’s pamphlet. So behave yourselves, I’ll be busy.

 

– 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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What I Did Today

My time on Mars was necessarily brief

1) Woke up. The streak continues. Go me!

2) Showered, Cleanliness is next to godliness.

3) Renewed CD.

4) Briefly contemplated the infinite.

5) Went to monthly massage therapy. She spent much more time on my head and neck than usual because I walked into a window at last week’s craft class.

5b) If you’re wondering does walking into a window hurt, the answer is yes.

6) Ate lunch.

7) Went to the library for this week’s crafts session. Made progress on my latch-hook project.

8) Did not walk into a window at any time.

9) Help with friend’s CD question.

10) Used extra-springy trampoline to bounce my way to Mars.

11) Had to return to Earth right away as I can only hold my breath so long.

12) Fortunately, NASA had left a trampoline on Mars during its last mission there.

13) Bounced my way back to Earth. Boy, did I take a big gulp of air!

14) Ordered some place markers for the Great Latch Hook Project.

15) Made quesadillas for the natives.

Behave yourselves.

 

– 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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Vera the Virus On Algebra

Vera the Virus voices a common complaint.

Vera the Virus #6, 1/30/2024

 

– 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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Golden Berry Pico De Gallo

Fusion Appetizer

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GOLDEN BERRY PICO DE GALLO

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INGREDIENTS
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1 jalapeno chile or serrano chile
6 ounces cherry tomatoes
6 ounces golden berries
½ red onion
½ cup fresh cilantro
1½ tablespoons lime juice
¼ ounce pepper
½ ounce salt
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Serves 4. Takes 30 minutes.
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PREPARATION
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Remove seeds from chile if you desire a milder salsa. Dice cherry tomatoes, cilantro, golden berries, jalapeno, and red onion. Add all ingredients to mixing bowl. Stir with fork until well blended. It should last for about 5 days if stored in the refrigerator in an airtight container. Golden berry pico de gallo goes well with tortillas chips or as a side to any Mexican dish.
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TIDBITS
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1) This recipe asks you to use a half a red onion.
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2) Sure, you could buy an entire red onion and use half of it. But can you do with the unused half?
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3) You need an entire red onion to participate in red-onion bowling leagues. So that’s out.
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4) People really don’t appreciate red-onion halves as a stocking stuffer.
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5) I suppose if you have twelve red-onion halves and your opponent has twelve white-onion halves, you could play onion checkers. But as of press time, America displays a rather striking lack of interest in such a pastime.
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6) And you know in your heart of hearts, some neighbor, perhaps just a block away, needs a red-onion half. Perhaps she needs it to make her own Golden Berry Pico de Gallo. Whatever, she needs it and would dearly love to obtain your red onion half.
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7) Wahoo! The answer’s obvious. Organize a market for such a thing. Set it up for Every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 11 am. Bring your half vegetables and swap for the half vegetables you do need. You save money. You cut on waste. And don’t have to waste time and gas needed to go to the store for just a half a head of lettuce. You’ll make America safer from a possible oil embargo.
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8) And you’ll meet new people. Perhaps a romance will bloom. How cool is that?
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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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