Cooking Gumbo With Oma – A Sunday Film On Monday
Posted: February 4, 2013 Filed under: Sunday Film Series | Tags: Cooking, food, Gumbo, Lego super hero movie maker app, postaweek, recipes, Super Bowl 40 Comments »Last night I did some cooking for the Super Bowl. I made a batch of my chicken and sausage gumbo. The Sunday Film Series has slowed down a bit, so I decided to made a video of the process. Why wait until next Sunday?
My latest cinematic wonder, making Chicken and Sausage Gumbo, is less than a minute:
Writing returns with the next post.
Hey, Pumpkin.
Posted: September 16, 2011 Filed under: favorites, Foolishness | Tags: beer, Cooking, food, Fruit and Vegetable, Halloween, holidays, Home, humor, jack o'lantern, miscellaneous, pumpkin, Pumpkin and Squash, Spice, Sweet potato 49 Comments »
Hey Pumpkin, know your role (Image via Wikipedia)
Hey, Pumpkin. It is the time of year when you become a trendy food ingredient.
Pie. Soup. Casserole. Beer. Bread. The list of foods that you add nothing to goes on and on.
I oppose your presence in all these foods.
Stop It. You Are Not Food. You Are A Decoration.
The orange food group is quite limited. Carrots, sweet potatoes, oranges. Beyond that, there isn’t much interest. Some people would add Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups to that list. To those people, I say slow down and unwrap. Read the rest of this entry »
The Kung Pao Exception
Posted: July 29, 2011 Filed under: favorites, Foolishness, Uncategorized | Tags: China, Chinese cuisine, chinese food, chinese restaurant, Cooking, food, humor, Kung Pao Chicken, manners, postaweek2011, restaurant, rude, rudeness 56 Comments »You might have noticed that I am big on people treating each other right. Life is too short to fool with someone who is impolite. Usually, if I find a business person unpleasant to deal with I do not patronize their establishment.
I am such a liar sometimes.
The Exception
Kung Pao. Best governor ever. (Image via Wikipedia)
I love Chinese food. Chinese food is one of my major food groups. I may actually be Chinese. I don’t think my parents know that. I think that they are proud I am their son and I feel certain they will accept me as their only Asian child.
My parents raised me to stand up for myself and my principles. Mom and Dad, when you read this, I hope you know that I mostly do what you taught me. There’s this exception though. The Kung Pao exception.
Where there is good Chinese food, there is room for compromise on my principles. Where the Kung Pao Chicken is exceptional, I am willing to deal with indignity and rudeness that I could never tolerate in any other arena. I can not explain this. I can’t even think of a similar exception in any part of my life. Read the rest of this entry »
Harnessing The Power Of Incidental Pork
Posted: December 21, 2010 Filed under: favorites, Foolishness | Tags: allergies, comedy, concept, Cooking, Egg roll, food, food allergies, good intentions, humor, incidental pork, judaism, life, meat, miscellaneous, Pork, Recipe, religion, thoughts 36 Comments »
Apparently the tail is the inedible part (Image via Wikipedia)
I come to you today to pass on an important concept – the principle of Incidental Pork.
This principle is exceptionally useful. Properly applied, Incidental Pork will help a picky eater become less picky. It can also ease the stress of strict adherence to dietary restrictions imposed on an individual.
Enough Talk, What Is Incidental Pork?
Incidental Pork is a concept I got from a friend. The concept is based on actual pork which was incidental to the dish she was eating. Read the rest of this entry »
Truckstop Oysters. How Bad Could They Be?
Posted: December 13, 2010 Filed under: bad ideas, Foolishness | Tags: bad choices, bad ideas, celebrities, comedy, Cooking, food, humor, Mark Sanford, news, North Carolina, observations, Oyster, rants, Shellfish, South Carolina, travel, truck stop, vacation 42 Comments »
Made selling fireworks and gasoline in the same place look like a good idea (Image via Wikipedia)
Last week I drove from my home in North Carolina to Orlando, FL and back. One of the things between home and Orlando is South Carolina.
South Carolina. The state that decided there really isn’t anything wrong with selling gasoline and fireworks in the same place. The state that thought making hiking enthusiast Mark Sanford their Governor would be a good idea. The state that, on this trip, revealed to me its latest good idea – selling oysters at highway truckstops.
Truckstop oysters. Stay here and think about the horrible possibilities for a minute while I keep writing. Meet me in the next section when you’re ready.
Cranberry Sauce, A Recipe For Disaster.
Posted: November 25, 2010 Filed under: bad ideas, favorites, Getting older | Tags: comedy, Cooking, cranberry, cranberry sauce, Denny's, family, Fruits and Vegetables, holiday, home made, humor, life, ocean spray, thanksgiving, thanksgiving dinner 34 Comments »
Deliciously shaped. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“I can’t wait for you to come over, I make the best cranberry sauce. It is my Grandmother’s recipe.”
In my early twenties, my girlfriend was someone I knew from high school. We ended up at the same university and things went from there. I remember her every year around this time because of cranberry sauce. Read the rest of this entry »
I Will Nominate You For The Nobel Prize
Posted: November 19, 2010 Filed under: Foolishness | Tags: all crust brownie pan, baking, Brownies, comedy, Cooking, crustless, current events, food, Formula, humor, Innovation, life, Math, Mathematics, miscellaneous, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Norwegian Nobel Committee, People, random, rants, science, thoughts 31 Comments »
If this is what you want, it is an innovation. I don't want it. (image via thinkgeek.com
In several catalogs, I have seen a new brownie pan designed to make sure that each brownie has at least two crusty edges.
This all edges brownie pan seems to be being marketed as an advance in making brownies. If you’re the sort of person who is a fan of the crusty edges of brownies, it may just be the sort of advance you’ve hoped for.
I’m Not That Sort Of Person
The Icing Carrot: Things That Matter, Some Of Which I Can’t Explain
Posted: October 29, 2010 Filed under: favorites, Whats left | Tags: Cake, Carrot cake, Cooking, Florida, food, Home, Key lime, Key lime pie, miscellaneous, observations, random, rants, United States 30 Comments »Food. I am a fan. Yet there are certain things that matter in certain dishes that I can’t explain.
Let’s Start Simple.
Image via Wikipedia
I love Pasta. I think it is sort of a genetic thing in me. I could eat it every day. I consider pasta a food group.
However, it is my position that certain shaped pastas go with certain dishes. Baked Ziti is called that for a reason. Alfredo sauce on elbow macaroni is wrong. Macaroni and Cheese made with spaghetti just can’t happen. Same basic product in different shapes. Why is there a difference? Read the rest of this entry »
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