Sunday, February 27
A brief post
Saturday, February 26
On Ceilings, Chili and Dreaming
Thursday, February 24
Bullet Points
Wednesday, February 23
Chip Shop
Tuesday, February 22
Jeopardy thoughts...
Monday, February 21
Mental Lint-Picking
Sunday, February 20
An Abject Apology
Saturday, February 19
Friday, February 18
Surfing the Stats
Thursday, February 17
Why can't I get a decent Cuban sandwich in this town?
Wednesday, February 16
A Basketball Story
Tuesday, February 15
Turbo Tax causing twitching...
Monday, February 14
A Mental Epileptic Fit
Sunday, February 13
random Sunday evening thoughts
Saturday, February 12
To Coke or Not to Coke
Friday, February 11
Handbells and Hamsters
Thursday, February 10
a few thoughts
#1 - Jennie is dead. She was an awesome truck. Yes, I overuse the word awesome - but she truly was. I'm going to try to add a picture. Never done that before. I'm not certain what the proper period of mourning for a truck is. I will say that the theme song in my head is Neil Young's "Long May You Run". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nszR0tfp4Es
SAUCY SHRIMP SPREAD
I don't know how long you people are expecting me to come up with clever names for this stuff. I hope not long. This recipe isn't really mine. I got it from somebody when I ran a catering business. That lasted for about a month, I never knew you could starve to death cooking food. Anyway, I don't remember who it was, and I've probably changed it since, so don't come begging for money, you're not getting any.
a block o' cream cheese
a can of little itty bitty shrimp, or you can be cheap and get those dollar ninety-nine cans of broken shrimp pieces and bits at the Wal-mart. But now your friends will know.
a teaspoon of worcester sauce (I still haven't found a bottle to spell that right)
a smattering of ketchup (like almost a ¼ cup, sometimes more)
some people put onions in it, those people are not normal.
** Once again, heat the cream cheese. If you missed how to heat cream cheese, check out the first recipe in the chapter, its not like I'm getting paid by the word or anything. This dip/spread however will need to be cooled down before serving. Right now though, we have warm, not hot, not bubbling, not boiling cream cheese. Add the ketchup about a tablespoon at a time. What we are going for here is a color thing. With great apologies to my African American, African, Asian American, Native American and Eskimo friends and readers....we are shooting for a color like a gentle sunburn on a white lifeguard with blonde hair and nice buns. But I digress...again. Head for pink, then go a little past that. Now the taste should be like cream cheese with just a hint of ketchup, but not overbearing ketchup. Got it? Okay, add the worcester sauce. After that is blended, add the shrimp bits. Now eat about half of it while perfecting the ketchup balance. I usually serve this with wheat thins, saltines and sometimes those weird vegetable thin things. Its also nifty on toast. Big serving hint here. People have trouble eating things they don't recognize, so be nice to your guests and take a couple of the bigger shrimp bits, hopefully ones that look like shrimp. Lay those on top, in the middle to give people a clue.
P.S. Since I don't use the onions, I ain't gonna put them in my recipe. After all, it is my book.
Well, hamster beaten.