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Stephanie
Vaughn has offered us a recipe for a drink to cool us off this
summer.
Lemon Drop Martini
1-1/2 ounces vodka
1/2 ounce Triple Sec
1 teaspoon superfine sugar
3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice (Meyer
lemons are best)
Ice cubes
Baker's/superfine sugar for dipping
Twisted peel of lemon
Mix the vodka, Triple Sec, sugar, and lemon
juice in a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice; shake well until
the sugar is well blended. Pour strained liquor into sugar-rimmed
martini glass and garnish with a twisted peel of lemon.
NOTE: To create a sugar-rimmed glass, take
a lemon wedge and rub the drinking surface of the glass so it is
barely moist. Dip the edge of the glass into sugar.
Makes 1 serving
This next Byte is something to sink your teeth into.
Cooking with Syd by Syd McGinley
Many of my guys have culinary issues. Some are inept in the kitchen,
others are disdainful of Òfrou-frou foodie crap,Ó some love to cook
and excel at it, some hate being Òpushed into the kitchen,Ó but they
all love eating. Food and cooking has shown up in just about everything
I write. Even my vampire misses tiramisu!
Me? I like food! I like easy-to-make. And
I suck at presentation and the curly bits
on top. So long as Larry stays willing, I’ll throw a recipe at you
every few issues of Fresh
off the Vine that even my inept cooks can
use to impress their beloveds.
Here’s an unbelievably easy bread
recipe.
Yeah, I know—bread. Takes hours. And there’s
kneading. And waiting. And the yeast refuses
to bubble. It’s too cool. Too humid. Someone
breathed near the dough and if wilted.
And then it tastes like a lump of cardboard. This solves all those
and
involves – BEER! This
is MANLY bread. It doesn’t look pretty,
or even slice neatly, but it tastes great with chili and similar
hearty
dishes.
Beer is bread in liquid form. We just need
to firm it up some. No, this isn’t a trick
where I say, eat some chili and drink a beer. (Although that’s
an optional step.) You can
sacrifice one can of beer, right? Here
we go. Don’t blink or you’ll miss this.
1. Preheat an oven to 375.
2. Grease a loaf pan.
3. Put 3 cups self-rising flour in a bowl.
Add 3 tablespoons of sugar. Pour in a can
of beer. (Any type, standard size.)
4. If you want to get fancy, throw in some
chopped herbs to match your main dish.
5. Mix well.
6. Pour into the loaf pan.
7. Bake 1 hour.
8. Eat while fresh.
It’s good torn apart and eaten with chunks
of cheddar, dunked into soups, and, of
course, when used to scoop up chili. It’s not a bread to make the
day before or to try to keep.
Step 8 is important!
Hope you enjoyed cooking with Syd! Any
requests for next time? I’m thinking oatmeal lace cookies (Hi Jarheads!
Not
as good as Rig’s momma’s, but pretty good
for the rest of us.) or perhaps a hot chocolate pudding? Or one
that makes my Irish heart
wail: cheese and potato pie? Let me know
at sydmcginley@hotmail.com or visit at www.sydmcginley.com.
Recipe for Fajitas a la Jed and Eli
By Julia Talbot
***Kids do not try this at home :) ***
Jed: Man burn meat
Eli: man whap Thatcher
Jed: chop veggies
Eli: mop blood
Jed: squash avocados
Eli: cry over onions
Jed: aw, don’t cry, Mister
Eli: *sighs*
Jed: stop for a scene of unimaginable boinking
Eli: unstick tortillas from back and roll
around meat and veggies
Jed: add cheese and guacamole and sour
cream
Eli: no, we have enough cheese, Thatcher
Jed *grins* We so do
If you want to see the scene that inspired
this snippet, check out Jumping
Into Things, my first Thatcher novel, available in e-book and paperback!
Time to wax
poetic with...
A.J.
Wilde
Written for a man with hazel
eyes
Elemental
In your eyes
I see all the colours
of Earth:
Pale painted wisps
of English summer sky,
circled high with swallows;
Velvet moss
on the stones of our ancestors,
speaking words only we can hear;
October fields
shorn bare and striped with fire;
and the wild, winter sea
of Home.
© Broken Angel Poetry , 2001
Explicit permission granted
by author to reprint this poem.
shameless pimping: http://www.myspace.com/ajwilde
professional author blog: http://wilde-dreams.livejournal.com
inappropriate wild & feckless blog: http://wildecountry.livejournal.com
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