1 serving in under 5 minutes
Another recipe for the kids.
2 slices of bread
1 tbsp. Peanut Butter (crunchy or smooth)
1 tbsp. Jam, Jelly, or Preserves (choose your flavor)
Toast bread to desired level.
Spread Peanut Butter on 1 slice of toast.
Spread Jelly/Jam/Preserves on other slice.
Slap em together.
Cut to appropriate size.
Serve with a smile.
–Barry Tikkanen
1 serving in less than 5 minutes
Another recipe for the kids.
1/2 banana
2 slices bread
1 tbsp. Peanut Butter (smooth or crunchy)
1 to 2 tsp. butter (optional)
Spread peanut butter on one slice of bread.
Spread butter, if desired, on the other slice.
Slice across the banana to make 9, 1/8 to 1/4 inch pieces.
Save remaining banana for additional sandwiches, or to serve with sandwich.
Place banana slices on peanut butter. (evenly spaced)
Cover with other slice of bread.
Cut sandwich to the appropriate size.
–Barry Tikkanen
15 to 20 minutes
Serves 4 to 6
May not be truly authentic, but it tastes great!
1-1/2 tbsp cornstarch
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
2 to 3 tbsp rice wine/cooking wine
5 cup chicken stock
1/2 tsp sugar (optional)
6 green onions, shredded
1/2 pound baby shrimp or diced chicken (optional)
1/4 cup green peas (optional)
1/4 cup mushrooms (optional)
1-1/2 tbsp flour
2 to 3 eggs
Dash white pepper (optional)
Dash coarse black pepper (optional)
In a small bowl, beat eggs and flour. Set aside.
In a large saucepan, combine cornstarch, sugar, wine, and soy sauce. Pour in stock and slowly bring to a boil. Simmer for 3 minutes. Add green onions, peas and chicken or shrimp as desired. Simmer for an additional 2 to 3 minutes. Add pepper to taste.
While soup is simmering, slowly stir soup while pouring egg mixture into the soup. Simmer for 1 more minute.
Remove from heat and serve.
–Barry Tikkanen
Inspired by CHICKEN EGG DROP SOUP recipe from cooks.com
1 serving in under 15 minutes
Approximately 250 calories, depending on your choice of ingredients. Can be multiplied easily for more servings.
4 oz. (115 g) tofu, or fully cooked chicken or pork
5 oz. (140 g) green pepper
5 oz. (140 g) red pepper
1/2 small to medium onion
2 cups (470 ml) zucchini
1 cup (235 ml) yellow squash
4 oz. (115 g) mushrooms (portabella, button, or shitake)
1 tbsp. (15 ml) cooking oil (canola, corn, or olive oil)
salt, pepper, and/or garlic to taste
1 tbsp. (15 ml) soy sauce (optional)
1 chicken bouillon cube, crushed (optional)
Cut tofu/chicken/pork into 1/2 inch cubes.
Slice green and red pepper, and onion into 2 inch long 1/4 inch strips.
Slice zucchini and yellow squash into 1/8 inch thick disks.
Cut mushrooms into quarter inch thick slices.
In a medium skillet, over medium-high heat, heat cooking oil.
Add tofu/chicken/pork.
Cook until lightly browned, stirring frequently.
Add salt, pepper and or garlic.
You may optionally add chicken bouillon and/or soy sauce.
Add all the vegetables, cook until mushrooms are mildly darkened and onions have become partially translucent. Stir frequently!
Remove from heat and serve.
–Barry Tikkanen
Check out a great audiobook called Brave Men Run by Matthew Wayne Selznick. You can listen to the audiobook at LibriVox and Player.FM or visit the Amazon Link for information regarding the purchase of the ebook or paperback. I find myself replaying the latest podcast episode in anticipation of the next episode. Currently, I’m debating whether to purchase the ebook of Brave Men Run now and read it all, or to wait until I’ve heard the entire book in the author’s own voice. Brave Men Run is a very well managed podcast & audiobook, at least as good as main stream distributors. The sound quality of Brave Men Run is better, to my ear, than most of the audiobooks that I have purchased. Keep up the excellent work!
From the author’s site:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT: Matthew Wayne Selznick
MWS Media
760-964-8044
A NEW TAKE ON A SUPER-HERO THEME
Hesperia, California, November 7th, 2005 – Author Matthew Wayne Selznick has just released “Brave Men Run – A Novel of the Sovereign Era” in print, e-book, and podcast editions.
“Brave Men Run” takes a familiar theme in the super-hero mythos — the young man troubled and alienated by the powers that make him special — and gives it a twist: our hero is among the least remarkable of an emerging breed of powerful individuals; a misfit member of a remarkable new minority.
Add the dynamics of high-school teen-aged drama, first love, and an origin mystery, stir in the volatile, paranoid repression of the Reagan Era at the height of the Cold War, and you have “Brave Men Run – A Novel of the Sovereign Era.”
Selznick’s first novel, while obviously influenced by Silver Age Marvel comics (sprinkled throughout the text are several sly and loving nods to the greatest creators of that era), gives us a fresh take on the first weeks of a super-powered age as seen through the eyes of a sixteen year old boy.
“I wanted to take the ordinary angst and pathos experienced by an average outsider kid,” Selznick explains, “and pile on the added anxiety of the appearance of metahumans in a world already on the edge of mutually assured destruction. It’s ‘Spider-Man’ as directed by John Hughes.”
“Brave Men Run” is available as a paperback book. The podcast is read by the author, and Selznick embraces the role of the first-person narrator, Nate Charters.
“I had a lot of fun recording the podcast,” Selznick said. “While I’ve produced a weekly music podcast for the last year, reading my own work dramatically was a first for me. I think people will enjoy it.”
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