Posts Tagged With: tacos

The Great Latch Hook Project – Part 6

Posted on March 8, 2024 by pauldelancey

Yesterday was such a busy day. The Earth’s core is filled with nickel. Yes, it is. Well, have you been there? Anyway, Earth’s Core, EC, was fed up with having an inner, no view, cabin on Cruise Ship Earth.

“Four billion years,” it said, “that’s long enough. I want to be on the surface.  I want to see the stars and the Moon. I want to feel the wind brush all over me. I want to see the Folies Bergère. I’m coming out now.”

“Do you mean you’re telling the rest of the world that you’re gay?” I asked.

“I’m not. I’m molten metal. Anyway, I don’t get out much. And speaking of getting out, give me one good reason I shouldn’t bubble to the surface and cover the world,” said EC.

“There wouldn’t be any tacos if you suffocated us all with your metallic self.”

EC sighed. “Ok, but send me some tacos.”

And so, I spent of yesterday drilling a taco tube to EC. EC liked his tacos very much. It says, “Thank you.” The world is again at one with itself.

I am happy to say that I was able to take up latch hooking again today. I have done 4,752 squares out of 8,588. I am up to Charlie Brown’s neck.

Here’s what it looks like:

Latch Hook 3/8/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

– 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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My New Year’s Resolutions

Posted on December 31, 2023 by pauldelancey

Resolution #22

I, like many of you, endeavor to become a better person for the next year. How do we do this? By making new year’s resolutions.

And keeping them.

“I’ve never strayed from all I believe.
“I’m blessed with an iron will.
“Had I been made the partner of Eve
“We’d be in Eden still.”

– from the musical Camelot

Ahem.

Anyway, here are my new year’s resolutions:

1)  Give up lutefisk.

2) Give up mushrooms.

3) Never murder anyone who blocks aisles in supermarkets with their cart.

4) Not even when a customer and a checker chat for ten minutes. Like today, for instance. They’re both alive because of the previous year’s resolutions.

5) Go to exercise classes twice a week.

6) Go to arts and crafts class once a week.

7) Learn a new word every day.

8) Forget a new word every day.

9) Take a positive attitude.

10) Especially with laundry. Always do my very best to make sure all my socks pair.

11) Accept my limitations and jettison resolution #9.

12) Read as many bath books as I can.

13) Limit my television watching to programs I like.

14) Say, “Bunny!” everytime I see a rabbit.

15) Same thing for cows.

16) Halve the number of hours I spend watching curling.

17) Never bring up at parties how Sweden got screwed at the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.

18) No matter how many times people bring up the topic.

19) Join the At Least One Egg Eaten in a Year Club.

20) Eat tacos.

21) Limit spending to the things that cost money.

22) Have tea with a rabbit.

23) Make my resolution last from now until the end of 2023.

There.

Wish me luck.

 

– 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

Posted on December 2, 2023 by pauldelancey

Will now burn for at least another week

Busy, busy day. I’m exhausted.

1) Woke up.

2) Got up. Go me!

3) Worked on finances.

4) Caught up on people’s lives on Facebook(tm).

5) Toasted a pastrami, turkey meat, and provolone sandwich.

6) Cleaned up.

7) Contemplated the infinite. This takes a while.

8) Worked on a Thursday, New York Times(tm) crossword puzzle.

9) Read from Mary’s Land, a wonderful novel and designated bathtub book.

10) Finished bath.

11) Dressed. Go me. Contemplated going outside.

12) Didn’t. Decided it was too peoply outside.

13) Checked the fuel reserves of the Sun.

14) They were a bit low. I added a wheelbarrow full of wood to it.

15) We will have another week of sunlight before I have to top off the Sun Again.

16) Writing and publishing this blog.

17) Sent my weekly condolences to Pluto for losing its full planetary status.

18) Pluto says, “Hi.”

19) Will make tacos for the natives after I post this.

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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Navajo Fry Bread

Posted on November 18, 2023 by pauldelancey

Navajo Appetizer

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NAVAJO FRY BREAD

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INGREDIENTS
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2 cups flour
3¼ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1¼ cups milk, lukewarm
3 cups vegetable oil
¼ cup flour
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Serves 4. Takes 40 minutes.
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PREPARATION
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Add 2 cups flour, baking powder, and salt to large mixing bowl. Mix with fork or whish until well blended. Gradually add milk. Mix with hands after each addition. Knead for 5 minutes or until a smooth dough ball forms.
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Divide dough ball into 4 mini dough balls. Spread ¼ cup flour onto flat surface. Add mini dough balls. Flatten mini dough balls into discs ¼” thick. Let sit for 5 minutes. Make a tiny hole in the middle of the discs. (This prevents the discs from ballooning into a circle.)
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Add oil to large pan. Heat oil using medium-high heat until a bit of dough in the oil will start to dance. Gently add 1 dough disc into oil. Use spatula to press down on disc so that it is covered by oil. Fry dough disc for 0.5-to-2 minutes or until bubbles form on the top and the bottom turns golden brown. Carefully turn disc over with 1 or 2 spatulas. Fry until new bottom turns golden brown and the top bubbles.) Remove fry breads from heat and drain on paper towels. Repeat for remaining discs. Frying times might decrease with each fry bread.
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Use fry breads to make Navajo tacos or top them with honey or confectioners’ sugar to make a tasty dessert.
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TIDBITS
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1) The Navajo fry bread in the above picture is golden brown.
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2) The CL, Chef Legislature, mandates that all cooks know what Golden Brown means and how to bake and fry flour so that these dishes all come out Golden Brown.
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3) The CPD, Chef Police Department, will come for you if you don’t cook bread Golden Brown.
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4) On the other hand, if you master the art of cooking bread Golden Brown, everybody will love you. Crime in your neighborhood will fall to zero. Every financial decision will be golden. You will find gold nuggets just lying around as you take your daily walk. Anybody you fancy will desire your body, and you will be able to do the New York Times’ crossword puzzle.
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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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Voting Advice

Posted on April 26, 2023 by pauldelancey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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One Word Haikus

Posted on April 23, 2023 by pauldelancey

Haikus are little three-line poems. The first lines has five syllables. The next line has seven, while the last lines reverts back to five.

See the following traditional haiku. It evokes clumsiness, mess, iredeemable loss, and hunger.

LOSS

I dropped my soup bowl.
Soup went all over the floor.
I shall go hungry.

 

Sure, that’s brilliant but, in general, writing good poetry is hard. That’s why today’s aspiring poets are flocking to one-word haikus.

The following one-word haiku evokes tacos.

TACOS

Tacos.

 

See great one-word haikus are easy. Give it a whirl. Please send me what you come up with.

 

– 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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Relationship Checklist

Posted on December 10, 2022 by pauldelancey

You’d be surprised how useful the following checklist can be. Carry multiple copies to hand out to those who would come between you and your one true love.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

– 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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When I Saved the Universe

Posted on December 2, 2022 by pauldelancey

Let’s face it, the affairs of people remain remain fraught with chaos and tinged with unpleasantness. We need something in our lives that stays constant, orderly, and clean. Astronomy fulfills that role all the time. Or does it?

Halley’s (pronounced Halley’s) Comet takes a long elliptical orbit around our planet, returning to Earth every 76 years. That comet visited us in 1910. But take a look around your room. Do you see any evidence–posters perhaps?–that Comet Halley passed by us in 1986? No, I didn’t think so.

Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! The clocklike movements of our Solar System are falling apart. Maybe the entire universe is returning to singularity in a Big Collapse. We’re all going to die! We’re all going to die! Damn the calories, I’m eating an entire chocolate cake.

But fear not. We need no longer end our sentences in exclamation marks. The period, our workhorse, will suffice.

For I have found my Official Halley’s Comet Observer’s Certificate. I saw Halley’s Comet back in 1986. I humbly share my proof below. Now relax and breathe slowly, the universe is still working fine. You will live. You will thrive. There will still be love and tacos in your future.

 

Note, I was so excited in 1986 about spotting Halley’s Comet and thus saving us all that I started to write in the date in the spot reserved for my signature. But can you blame me?

 

– 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 Three Tacos

Posted on September 9, 2022 by pauldelancey

The world is harsh and terrifying. Sometimes it seems that the forces of evil will soon overwhelm us entirely. But no! All is not lost. We have tacos. Lots and lots of wonderful tacos. Tacos are tasty. Tacos are good. You need to see three tacos to boost your morale and resolve. Let the tacos’ counteroffensive against evil begin. Excelsior!

 

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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Goofy Man Talks About Tacos

Posted on August 6, 2022 by pauldelancey

Goofy Man says what’s in our hearts.

Goofy Man #1

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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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