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Unfortunately, I can’t find my camera for the poor photography portion of the blog. I have been cooking my booty off and plan on posting if I have to beg, borrow, or steal a camera. Hell, you may get bad shots from my phone.

Want a tease? How about Lebanese Lentil and Greens soup? Tofu Creamed Spinach? Marinated Collards?

It’s all happening at Sketchy Central.

I just had RockStar’s 8th birthday this weekend, out of town guests last weekend, and I’m back to my 9 to 5. There are many recipes percolating and I plan on spending my entire weekend writing and setting up posting so it’s back to our regular schedule. (Also, Fifi has a book review to share with the class.)

Keep the faith!

BabyDaddy and I scored some excellent, fresh lady peas from the green grocer yesterday. We also got baby sweet potatoes and the Best Tomatoes In The History of Man. Here’s what I do with super fresh lady peas (my favorite cowpea variety):

Fresh Lady/Purple Hull/Cow/Black-eyed Pea:

Legumes

Water to cover

Salt to taste

Wash peas and remove leaves and strings and shell fragments (It ain’t Grammaw pickin’ them clean anymore, kids. Machines can now sit on the glider on the front porch in the heat.) Cover peas with water by one inch. Add one tsp of salt per inch of water. Bring to a boil. Test after 10 minutes. Fresh peas are done when there is a bit of resistance to the tooth and a slight grassy flavor in the end product. Serve with cornbread/biscuits, butter, and hot sauce. Greens and sliced garden tomatoes are mandatory.

You are now a Southerner. Congratulations. Now go support the Dixie Chicks. Sketchy LOVES them.

I present Capers:

The last time RockStar, BabyDaddy, and I saw my grandmother for a visit at home (the very last was at the hospital right before she died) we went to the Kroger in her town and got a regular Sunday morning schmear. Lox, capers, onions, tomato, the works. Out of the blue, she took a caper out of the jar and popped it into her mouth. She was in love with them. Every time I talked to her on the phone after that, she told me how good they were and how she loved to eat capers on her salad. It makes me very happy to know that life has pleasant surprises for us, even in your 80’s with dementia.

Happy Birthday Miss Mary.

(Here’s another pal we met on that trip.)

Woo Hoo!!!

Lots of great posts are in the hopper for the next few days including a mac and cheese that is yumlicious.

It’s great to be back and thanks for the patience.

We’re moving on up. To the East Side. To a deluxe apartment in the sky-high-high.

Mooovin on up. To the East Side.

We finally got a piece of the pi-i-iii-iiiie, yeah-eah-eah.

You kids can drop the wordpress from the site name. We’ll now be just http://sketchyrecipe.com.

See how happy we are?

I made this tonight. It was not a total success. I think it would be in a rice cooker.

Much Lazier and It’s From a Can Enchilada Sauce Rice

1 c mild red enchilada sauce

1 c white rice

1 c water

2 tbs oil

Warm the oil in a skillet. Add the rice. Stir to cook a bit and then add water and then sauce when you can smell the rice toasting. Bring to a simmer and let cook for 10 minutes, covered. Add 2 parts water for 1 part sauce to the mix if you need to. Cook for 10 more minutes, adding water and sauce, until cooked.

This never cooked fully for me.

What I will do next time? Cook the rice in the rice cooker with the same 2 parts water to one part sauce plus salt.

I will update! (Because we celebrate the failures here too!)

The winner of the Bag contest is Leigh! I’ll be sure to share pictures of the horror that the Recipes create.

That wins the poorly decorated canvas bag by yours truly. Really. (Maybe)

You need to find the original post and put a comment there.

Good luck, hippies.

The LunaR moth. It comes to feed on our moonvine. Here are pictures of the Luna moth and moonvine from Morguefile.com. I love that site!

The Archer Farms Green Chile and Cheese Tamales have been discontinued from my SUPERTARGET. Yes, we are a SUPER U.S. Majority family, but do not punish us by taking away our most non-ethnic/homogenized “ethnic” food. Just like I dream we have a clothesline, and a pig, and hens roaming about the back 0.14 acre, I acutely now feel pain in paying $6.00 to burn sweet petrol to buy totally faux tamales. THEY ARE YUMMY. Damnation. The ironies in These Times do sting.

If only we had a Prius.

For the border. Tamales, guac, and mexican rice.

Yummy!

This non-recipe diversion is caused by a marathon over the Father’s Day weekend of Mel Brooks films:

Fifi and Donny (my pater) reared my sister Mary, Mary and me on some totally awesome, uncut, pirated VHS Mel Brooks films. We cut our tween teeth on Blazing Saddles, “I’m Tired” is still one of my favorite songs, and Young Frankenstein, “Put The Candle BACK!” We still watch Donovan’s Reef every Thanksgiving. We’ve even shanghaied faux-grandparents Bike and Monnie into this addiction. I would love the recipe to Schwartz Wasser Kirsch Torte as much as I would love Gene Wilder as an older brother, but until the end of the rainbow is discovered, I’m afraid I have to have Fifi’s Beyond Awesome Dressing and a helping of the Reef. (It’s how I learned the singular of lice was louse!)

Do you and yours have any “Anything But Board Games” traditions? I’m completely happy with my familiar dysfunction. Because my family has always prided itself with putting the fun in dysfunction. Right, Fifi?

BMF: Bowel Movement FULL or Bunny McFluff

SR: Moi

BMF: What a lot of people want to know is how I keep my ass so fly, but I can’t be giving away the trade secrets.

SR: I understand, instead, what is your favorite protein?

BMF: <For Fifi I will say that Bunny’s answer is ‘Rod?’>

SR: What is your favorite beverage?

BMF: Beer.

SR: Do you wish to share brands with the readership?

BMF: I’m drinking Stella in a bottle right now, but anything alcoholic will do.

Ezzy (BMF’s baby): DUDE!

BMF: Ezzy, I don’t want you in my lap, you keep touching my BOOBS!

EB: WOW

BMF: Say, “HI HOT MAMA!”

EZ: unintelligible

SR: So what do you cook to keep your man happy?

BMF: I’ve found that a steaming hot helping of p…Ooga Wooga Wooga…helps.

SR: So what does your man cook for you?

BMF: Fish head soup and crawfish, lots of crawfish.

SR: Can we get Mr. McFluff’s fish head soup recipe at the SketchyRecipe?

BMF: I’m sorry, but it’s the most closely guarded recipe (ooooo, boog, daddi, ow) besides the tail fluffer in the house!

BMF:To Ezzy, No you can’t get in my lap, you’ll pull my boobies!!!

SR: I’m closing this interview due to lack of fish head stew mojo!!

Thanks to the McFluffs, especially EZZY. He knows good food!

I got a new Black & Decker CitrusMate Plus today, and RockStar and I are juicing away. So far, it’s love, but we all know the Earth, Wind, and Fire song, right? After the Love is Gone. Story of my life with kitchen appliances. This one, however, only set me back to the tune of $15. $15!!!

Pardon me, but I’m feeling juicy.