Sunday, October 17, 2004

Moronic soup

Soup for dummies....soo good

- 3 lbs butternut squash (cut in half, rub inside with olive oil (de-pit first), salt and pepper, clove of garlic and piece of ginger under each side and put flat on bake sheet. Bake at ~400F until soft (30 - 40 minutes). When done, scoop up into food processor, puree with garlic and ginger. Need also 4 cups of hot chicken stock.....dump all toghether. Add 1 tsp curry powder (red or yellow), 1tsp of cumin and corriander each and if you have cardimam seeds 1/8 teaspoon. Heat, at the end add 2 tablespoons of whipping cream.

serve and enjoy.

beer chicken

Beer Butt Chicken

- Chicken (free range best)
- 4 equal parts of: sugar (brown), pepper (ground), salt, papika
- oilve oil
- Budweiser beer 1 can

Mix 4 parts in a large steel bowl (make sure bowl is dry). DRY chicken with paper towel and remove insides. Oil chicken with oilve oil well. Roll around in bowl to baste with mixture, insert and rub into every crevice. Open beer, drink 1/2 and cut off top of can. Put some of the mixture in the beer can. Put beer can up chickens ass and sit on the BBQ. Watch feet and wings not too burn. Low - Medium flame, 1.5 hours or until well done.

red peppers

Red pepper recipe:

-Red peppers (4)
-salt / pepper 1 teaspoon
-3-4 garlic cloves crushed
-oregano leaves (2-3)
-oilve oil - drench the peppers (~1/2 cup)


BBQ or Broil the peppers unil skin turns black. Put in a bowl and cover with seran wrap...let steam until soft. Peel off skin outside that falls off after steam, clean out inside, cut up into bite sized pieces. Add oil, very slight amount of viniger, garlic, salt and pepper. Done.

Monday, August 09, 2004

Car adultery and why I can't stop

Only the few that know me actually leave me alone on the subject of buying cars. After years they simply stop questioning and accept the fact that I cannot just have one. I'd like to think it's like James Bond never having one sexy lass, but the fact of the matter is now matter how you try you just can't make old cars that exotic.....well almost. I have been in love with the car ever since I can remember. When I was young I rode my bicycle for great lengths to visit a favorite car parked in some back alley across town. Not much has changed, now I walk nightly and do the same thing. Sometimes I drive accross the country to do it. I constantly search for cars in newspaper ads, internet, for sale signs. I am not particularly searching for anything. I love to look and dream of driving of owning an unusual quirky car and unfortunate thing is the fact that most old cars change hands for little money such that I can buy hoards of them. The only thing that prevents me is the 2 carefully assigned parking spots outside my house. I think I could get into really big trouble if I was a farmer, I sometimes daydream of owning large parking lots or farm fields where I could save all of my junk cars and fix them one by one. That IS and will be my heaven if there is one. One massive field containing all the cars I have dreamed of having, just waiting sitting out of the elements.