JamesSavik

Cajun food is a lot like jazz. There are some basics but, there a lot of ad lib going on. Some of the old recipes were designed to vary significantly depending on what you had on hand. For something like Jambalaya the rice and spices are constant but, it can be loaded up with anything from sausage, hamburger meat, shrimp, deer meat, etc. It's how a Mom could feed a lot of kids based on what's in the kitchen. It's not hard to do, fun and you come up with some absolutely delicious stuff. I'm going to take you through making Shrimp Creole. It takes about an hour and it looks and tastes great. It's a good recipe for company you like. They'll sure come back. You need: _________________________________________________ 2 pounds shrimp- (peeled and de-veined works best as it skips a time-consuming chore. Thawed if frozen). 2 cups chicken broth 1 can Rotel 1 small can tomato paste 1/2 cup sliced celery 1/2 cup sliced green peppers 1/2 cup diced onions 3 cloves of garlic, crushed (optional- a few green onions sliced) 2 tablespoons flour 1/2 a stick of butter 1 tablespoon creole seasoning 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper [salt & pepper to taste] ____________________________________________________ Start out by preparing your vegetables. Onions, green bell pepper and celery are the base for a number of creole dishes ranging from red beans & rice, étouffées, gumbo and others. Make sure your shrimp are ready to go. They need to be thawed out if they are frozen. Next it is time to make the roux. Roux is a gravy base. It is the base of numerous Cajun recipes. Once you start cooking, it thickens up. Roux is easily done but you have to pay attention to it. If you burn it, it's wasted. Take the pot you are cooking in and apply medium heat. Melt a half stick of butter and then put in the flour- stirring frequently. At first, it will look like this: As it cooks, it will smell very good. Stir it and keep stirring. Don't let it sit still. You don't want it to scorch. It will gradually darken to a peanut brown color (we call this a blond roux for étouffées). Eventually it will cook to a darker color like this: When the roux is this color, it's ready. Now dump in your vegetables, garlic last. Continue stirring and sauté all of your vegetables in the roux. This takes about four or five minutes. Once the onions are translucent, add in two cups of chicken broth, 1 can of Rotel and the tomato paste. Add in your spices now. Stir this all together and make sure the paste dissolves good. Bring the pot to a hard boil and then reduce heat and simmer covered for thirty to forty-five minutes. It will look like this: After simmering for at least a half hour, add in your shrimp and stir them up. Let it continue for another five minutes as the heat in the pot will cook the shrimp. Remove the pot from heat and let stand 5 minutes. Serve over rice. Pairs well with white wine, garlic bread and you can garnish it with fine chopped parsley.

I like 5 better than 6. It just seems more playable.

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Cousin Phil Cousin Phil is a Southern-ism indicating that rather useless, lazy, alcoholic dull cousin that most families only acknowledge reluctantly. He is the inspiration for this classic bad opening for a novel: The plan was simple, like my cousin Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

That dog won't hunt. This means (1)an idea or (2)a person that is mostly useless. Examples: 1) Have you tried going back to a typewriter? I hear that's good for a lot of authors with writers block. Hell Phil, that dog won't hunt. I don't even know how to use a typewriter. 2) Your cousin still need a job? There some construction work opening up. That dog won't hunt. Phil is just too lazy to work that hard.

I have heard that a lot of southern phrases are incomprehensible to foreigners like yankees and left coasters. In this thread I will try to fix that. Cuter than a basket full of puppies. If you were to say: that boy Rusty is cuter than a basket full of puppies, then Rusty would be pretty cute. Get it?

I like to write late at night when its quiet and I can concentrate. Downside is that 7:30 comes awfully early but, my ADD brain isn't chasing as many rabbits. Sometimes I listen to music. Mostly classic rock. What depends on the scene. In my latest story, I include a YouTube link at the end for a song that featured in chapter like:

Ingredients: 3 X chicken breasts 1 X large onion (red or yellow) 1 X green bell pepper 1 X red bell pepper Spice Mix: 1 TBS chili powder 1 TBS Cumin 1 Teaspoon salt 1 Teaspoon black pepper 1 large crock pot Steps: Prep the veggies Slice onions and peppers. Load up the crock pot Create a bed of onions and peppers for the chicken. Park the chicken on a bed of onions and peppers Apply the spice mix to the Chicken Be sure to get both sides. Add 1/2 cup water, cook for 4 hours on high. When done, remove chicken and shred it with a fork. Retain the onions and peppers. Strain the liquid, add broth to the shredded chicken. Build your fajitas as usual with shredded chicken, onions and peppers. Add your favorites like cheese, guacamole, Spanish rice, refried beans, salsa, pico, lettuce, tomato, etc. Enjoy.

i. At zero dark stupid in the morning, Junior woke me up by nibbling on my ear. I’m not sure when I’d started calling Frank’s kitten Junior but, it was easier on my sensibilities than “Frank’s kitten” or “Kitty”. The feisty little beastie didn’t care if it was four in the afternoon or four in the morning. He wanted some attention. I pet him, and he rumbled with delight, then nipped my knuckle and ran to the door swishing his tail. He was hungry. I gently disengaged from Frank, put on s

Porky's Chili Ingredients 1 pound lean ground beef 1 pound pulled pork (smoked is best, no bbq sauce) 1 medium red onion 1 bell pepper (may add or sub Anaheim or Poblano) 1 small can chili peppers (heat depends on your tastes) 1 can Hunts chili fixings 1 can Rotel chili fixings Spices (note: this is a "safe" amount. If you are more adventurous, you can turn up the volume by adding more chili powder, cumin or red pepper at your own risk) 1 1/2 tbs cumin 1 tbs chili powder 1 tea spoon salt 1 tea spoon black pepper 1/2 tea spoon red pepper Kidney or Pinto beans (optional) ________________________________ Dice the onions and peppers. It's OK to cheat with a food processor. Start browning the ground beef Add diced onions and peppers to the beef, cook them together ~6-8 minutes until onions turn translucent. Add Rotel chili fixings, Hunts chili fixings and small can of chili peppers. Add pulled pork. Add spices Stir thoroughly, bring to a boil for ~ 1 1/2 minutes. Optional: add beans at this step. Reduce heat and allow cooking for thirty minutes. Stir frequently. Serve with Mexican cheese, sliced Jalapeños, sour cream, tortilla chips . Pairs well with light beer. Also goes very well on hot dogs. Even better the next day if you have leftovers. WARNING: This chili is VERY rich.

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This is my version of the recipe. Your mileage may vary. 🙂 Chili Verde 2 pounds pork loin cut into chunks- browned on the stove 1 X 28 oz can of tomitillos (crush them 5 X 7 oz cans of verde salsa 1 X can Rotel 1 X small can of chili peppers (to taste) 1 red onion chopped 3 garlic cloves 1 tbs chili powder 1 tbs cumin 1/2 teaspoon red pepper 1 tsp black pepper Put in (large) crock pot for 4-6 hours. Serve with tortilla chips, cheese and sour cream.

This gentleman has been on the case since the very start. He has had a daily video and, published this summary. Things are looking up. It looks like we're not going to have the deaths we thought we might. Lockdown may be boring but, better bored than infected with this little monster.

I'm afraid it'll end with the Zack getting seriously hurt and ending up in an ER. Hope he lives and isn't permanently disabled. Everyone will say why didn't anyone read the signs. Sorry. I've seen this story played out in live action.

I am going to recommend a book that's timely and provides some perspective. Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright is a short history of the worst pandemics in history. It starts with the Antonine Plague which so weakened the Roman Empire it eventually fell. The book proceeds through history and the big nasty pandemics that collapsed empires and economies like Black Death, Yellow Fever and even AIDS. What is important about this book it that is notes the historic mistakes almost every society makes. Give it a read. It's not long and it is funny. If you prefer an audiobook, look here. Nothing is new under the sun. Neither are the mistakes. Let's try to skip them this time.

"What on earth are you wearing?" "I call it my field expedient bio-safety suit." "You look like you are dressed for a hold up." "Glasses, ball cap, bandanna over my face, gloves, long sleeves and jeans. It's about the best you can do without talking to Racal or 3M." "Are you really that worried about that virus?" "I'm not worried. I am worried about becoming a carrier and getting a lot of my elderly friends and relatives sick." "Ohhhh!" "Oh, indeed. This bug doesn't appear to be that serious unless you are already struggling with something. Just be smart and don't a part of the problem."

Comsi is using the author's version of the force on us. He's very good at creating sympathetic characters we identify with and love and, then tortures both us and the poor character. Comsi- step away from the dark side. Give our boy some justice. He's needs it badly... and a few months on a therapist couch. Bravo. As usual.

Remember when we used to joke about the Corona virus? It's not like we haven't seen new viruses get hyped like SARS and MERS. Someone would leap on a podium, bang a shoe and claim it is the end of the world and, it would fade away. Remember how the politicians didn't even take a break from their regularly scheduled circle jerks? Yeah. That was really stupid. Remember how we made fun of the conspiracy theorists on the internet that said Wuhan was the home of the Peoples Republic Biowarefare Research Establishment. If you looked it up, holy shit, they were right. Remember how some usually stolid and unimpressed epidemiologists practically crapped their pants and had security remove journalists who attempted interviews outside officially sanctioned channels? Yeah, that was a little creepy. Remember how they kept revising the NCov19 R0 (R-nought) number upward? That's kind of important as that's an indicator of how easily this bug gets around. Remember when a paper was published that claimed unnatural patented gene sequences appeared in the RNA of the virus. Then the paper disappeared from the internet and even archive sites? Remember when some scientists were talking about it causing a cytokine storm in some patients- just like the Spanish Influenza of 1919? Coronavirus Cytokine Storm Remember when we found out people who had NCov19 could be infectious and asymptomatic for up to twenty-four days? Yeah, that's when another holy shit went out because anything epidemiologists might do in the way of contact tracing is almost a month behind. Remember when the scientist who discovered the virus died of the virus? The scientist who discovered SARS said: The US military is prepping for the pandemic. US Military Prepping for Coronavirus Pandemic Some sources say FEMA has proposed martial law. Strap it on tight boys and girls. This might turn very, very ugly. Nobody at all should be laughing anymore.

>>Haphazard - (adjective) - marked by lack of plan, order, or direction Story of my life in one word.

i. I woke to Frank gently massaging the bruises the seat belts had left. The sun wasn’t up yet. He kissed me gently and quietly said, “Hi.” “I’m not that fragile.” Frank sighed and said, “I’m so glad you’re back. This bed is much too big without you.” “I’m glad to be back. That truck running the red-light was scary stuff. I’m really proud and grateful to you and the rest of the guys for what you accomplished while I was in the body and fender shop.” Frank moved around, a

I thought it was the capital of the Empire.