You know this will happen someday.
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.
Deep Thought Man #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.
INGREDIENTS
¼ cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon fenugreek seeds
1½ cups water
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup flour
1½ cups water
½ teaspoon baking soda
3 tablespoons water
1 cup milk
⅔ cup sugar
SPECIAL UTENSIL
colander
Serves 6. Takes 30 minutes.
PREPARATION
Add oil to pan. Heat oil using medium-high heat. It is hot enough when a fenugreek seed will dance in the oil Add fenugreek seeds. Sauté for 1 minute or until fenugreek seeds darken. Stir constantly. Add 1½ cups water and salt. Reduce heat to low-medium, Simmer for 12 minutes or until fenugreek seeds soften. Stir enough to prevent burning. Reserve fenugreek seeds.
While fenugreek simmers, add flour and 1½ cups water to large mixing bowl. Mix with whisk or fork until flour dissolves. It should be be quite watery. Use colander to strain fenugreek seeds from water. Keep both fenugreek seeds and fenugreek-flavored water. Add baking soda and 3 tablespoons water to cup. Stir with fork until baking soda dissolves.
Add watery flour to pot. Set heat to low-medium. Stir constantly with whisk keep flour from clumping. Add more water if necessary. Add fenugreek liquid. Stir until well blended. Stir constantly. Add milk. Stir constantly until mixture thickens. Add sugar. Stir until well blended. Add reserved fenugreek seeds. Add dissolved baking soda. Stir until mixture thickens to the consistency of porridge. Serve warm or chilled.
TIDBITS
1) This recipe, Madeeda Hilba, tells you to stir the contents while cooking. Suppose you’ve hurt both your wrists and can’t stir. What then? Simple, buy yourself a Bushnell Rotating Electric RangeTM (BRER). Simply put your liquid in a pot on top of a burner and hold firmly a spatula. Your rotating range will move the liquid around the spatula. No more stirring! Your wrists will say, “Thank you, Bushnell.”
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 have seen many great musicals. Alas, there are some I have yet to see. I enjoyed all the ones in this list.
Please let me know your favorite musicals, especially if they’re not on this list. I’d like to see them. Thanks.
American in Paris
Annie Get Your Gun
Band Wagon
Beauty and the Best
Blues Brothers
Calamity Jane
Duck Soup
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Fame
Fiddler on the Roof
Gigi
Grease
Guys and Dolls
Hair
Hard Day’s Night
Help!
King and I
Kiss Me Kate
HMS Pinafore
Little Shop of Horrors
Love Me or Leave Me
Mamma Mia!
Mary Poppins
Meet Me in Saint Louis
My Fair Lady
Oklahoma
On Moonlight Bay
On the Town
Paint Your Wagon
Pal Joey
Pillow Talk
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Show Boat
Singin’ in the Rain
Sound of Music
Star is Born
Tommy
Top Hart
West Side Story
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
42nd Street
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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Wanda Wunder #21
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
1¼ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon cinnamon
2¼ cups flour
½ teaspoon nutmeg
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cup butter, softened
1½ cup sugar
3 tablespoons lime juice
1¼ teaspoons lime zest (You might need to buy limes and a zester)
SPECIAL UTENSILS
electric beater
2 baking sheets
parchment paper
Makes 36 cookies. Takes 1 hour 15 minutes.
PREPARATION
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add baking powder, cinnamon, flour, nutmeg, and salt to medium mixing bowl. Mix with fork or whisk until well blended. Add butter and sugar to large mixing bowl. Mix with electric beater set on high until well blended and fluffy.
Gradually add in lime juice, lime zest, and flour/baking powder mix from medium mixing bowl into large mixing bowl. Mix with electric beater set on high until cookies dough is well blended and fluffy.
Cover baking sheets with parchment paper. Take cookie dough and roll it into a 36 1″ balls. Place cookie-dough balls 1″ apart on parchment paper. Flatten dough balls slightly with hand. Bake at 350 degrees for 14 minutes or until cookie edges turn golden brown. Cool on racks for 20 minutes or as long as you can wait.
TIDBITS
1) Historians call the fixed defensive system along the borders of the Roman Empire, “limes.”. Why did the Roman Empire need to defend itself so vigorously? Because the barbarian hordes lurking outside the Roman world wanted the plunder the Romans’ limes. Why did the barbarians yearn so for limes? For its vitamin C, of course. Also, it impossible to make Lime Cookies without limes. Everybody loves lime cookies, whether civilized or barbarians and the Romans prized their Lime Cookies, even to the death. Hence, the “limes” defensive system. Can you blame them?
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 really thought Santana sang the following lyrics. Changed the song more than a bit.
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.
It would be nice.
Wanda Wunder #21
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
1¾ cups pomegranate juice
1 pound boneless pork loin
½ teaspoon garlic powder
¾ teaspoon pepper
¾ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons olive oil
1¼ teaspoons oregano
1 small onion
SPECIAL UTENSILS
skewers
outdoor grill
Serves 4. Takes 4 hours.
PREPARATION
Add pomegranate juice to pan. Bring to boil using medium-high heat. Stir frequently. Reduce heat to low-medium. Simmer for 25 minutes or until or until pomegranate juice reduces to 1 cup of syrup. Stir enough to prevent clumping Cut pork into 1″ cubes. Add pork cubes, pomegranate syrup, garlic powder, pepper, salt, olive oil, and oregano to mixing bowl. Mix with fork until cubes are completely coated. Cover and refrigerate for 3 hours. (Reserve the marinade.)
While pork cubes marinate, slice onion into 1″ squares. Add 1 pork cube and 1 onion square onto skewer until skewer is full. Repeat for each skewer until pork and onion is gone. Set grill to medium-high. Grill for 15 minutes or until pork cubes start to char and are no longer pink inside. Rotate 3 times.
Place skewers on serving plate. Add reserved marinade to pot. Simmer on medium heat until marinade is warm. Transfer marinade to 1 dipping bowl per guest.
TIDBITS
1) Early Armenians used to make a game out of eating their Pork Kebabs. Players would alternate pulling off a cube of pork or a square of onion off their skewers. Anyone who made the rest of the pork and onion fall off lost. The game always ended in a tie. Nothing falls off a skewer. Then the clever Leslie Scott invented the ever popular game, JengaTM. The Jenga tower of wooden blocks can easily fall down, making it a much more exciting game. But, you can’t eat Jenga. There is a trade off.
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’ve been there.
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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