– 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
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4 cups milk or evaporated milk
1 cup oats
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 tablespoons lemon or lime juice
1½ cups ice cubes
SPECIAL UTENSILS
blender
pitcher
Makes 5 cups. Serves 5. Takes 30 minutes.
PREPARATION
Add milk and oats to blender. Blend at high speed for 5 minutes or until oats are quite tiny. Add cinnamon, sugar, and vanilla extract. Blend at medium speed until sugar dissolves completely. Chill in freezer for 20 minutes or until cold.
Remove bowl from freezer. Pour into pitcher. Add ice. Slowly add lemon juice while stirring continuously.
TIDBITS
1) Jugo de avena’s taste satisfies everyone. It also cools and refreshes.
2) A satisfied, cooled, and refreshed person is a calm and sedate person.
3) That’s why clever riot police hurl canisters of jugo de avena at the seething, surging mobs. One sip of jugo de avena makes even the most ardent protester happy. Serene protesters stop rioting. Good will abounds.
4) Other riot police hurl tear-gas canisters at the protesters. This angers the protesters more. The riot intensifies.
5) Why haven’t we heard of riots being quelled with jugo de avena? Because these disturbances stop so quickly that the press can never get there in time. Makes you think.
I have now blogged for 100 days in a row. : )
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.
Hawaiian Entree
HAWAIIAN SALAD
INGREDIENTS
6 eggs
1 chicken breast
1 12 ounce can SPAMTM
1/4 head lettuce
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 cup pineapple juice*
½ cup cheddar cheese
1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup pineapple chunks*
* = Or use all the juice and ½ of the pineapple chunks from a 20 ounce can of pineapple chunks.
makes 8 salad bowls
PREPARATION
Boil eggs on high heat for 6 minutes for soft boiled or 12 minutes for hard boiled. While eggs boil, cut chicken breast and SPAM into ½” cubes. Cut or shred lettuce to desired size.
Remove eggs and let them cool. While eggs cool, add chicken, SPAM, brown sugar, and pineapple juice to pan. Sauté for 8 minutes on medium-high heat. Stir frequently. Add lettuce, chicken/SPAM/pineapple juice, cheddar cheese, mayonnaise, and pineapple chunks to mixing bowl. Cut each egg into 4 slices. Top salad with egg slices.
TIDBITS
1) In Hawaii, it is against the law to appear in public wearing only swimming trunks. I don’t know about bikinis. I hope not.
2) You may not own a mongoose without a permit, but billboards are always outlawed. Go figure.
3) You can fined if you don’t own a boat. Do not pay your fine with coins hidden in your ears as having coins in your ear is illegal. I think it’s okay to put dollar bills there.
4) You may not have more than one alcoholic drink in front of you. I know, I know, you needed two stiff drinks after getting fined for having your unpermitted mongoose appear in public wearing only swimming trunks. And your neighbor had his mongoose strut along the beach wearing a bikini and now one cared. Here’s a tip; have your second tiki drink behind you.
5) Hawaii is the only state in America to grow coffee. You may put a coffee bean in your ear.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef
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.
Egyptian Dessert
YANSOON
(aniseed drink)
INGREDIENTS
4 cups water
6 tablespoons aniseed
2 tablespoons sugar
SPECIAL UTENSIL
tea strainer
or
cheesecloth
PREPARATION
Boil all ingredients together for 2 minutes. Stir until sugar dissolves. Pour through tea strainer or cheesecloth into teapot or cups. You’re done. Enjoy.
TIDBITS
1) Yansoon is an anagram for Nano soy.
2) Nano means one billionth. A nano soy is one billionth of a soy.
3) How can you have one billionth of a soy? Maybe a tiny part of a soy bean.
4) Tofu is made from soy. So, it’s probably the merest speck of a tofu cube.
5) A mere speck is just a tiny dot. A meerkat is a mammal. The San Diego Zoo has meerkats.
6) Did you know that a colony, or is it a coagulation, of meerkats always has a designated lookout. This sentinel’s only job is to search the sky and warn the colony of approaching hawks?
7) There are no hawks at the San Diego Zoo, so this precaution is unnecessary.
8) But it’s not harmful either. And how do these San Diegan meerkats know for sure they won’t wake up tomorrow in Hawkland?
9) If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. Would the many, many industrial accidents and disasters throughout the years have occurred if meerkats had been overseeing the projects? I think not.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef
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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