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The Kitchen Report, With MaryC

Posted by Maryc on November 1st, 2009

You know, people often stop to ask me, “Mary, what’s the surest way to a man’s heart?”, and I always respond, “A sharp knife and a tire jack to crack open the rib cage!”

Then, based on the look on their faces at my answer, I realize they aren’t talking about do-it-yourself open heart surgery and are actually talking about food.  Which is good, because I know more about food than open heart surgery, anyway.

And so begins the first in an irregularly posted series of favorite recipes, The Kitchen Report, With MaryC.

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Tonight’s recipe will be a welcome addition to the kitchen of any fan of the Twice Baked Honey Chicken dish which was served proudly by the famous Largo supper club at it’s original location of Fairfax.

Oh, the fun times we had in that dark little club, shoulder to shoulder with fans of alternative comedy and music, hoping the dish would get to our table before the show began.  Ah, memories.

Anyway, once I had eaten the famous dish, I was determined to figure out how to make it.  Early attempts did not go well.  I found out I really don’t understand the cooking term, “twice baked”, because when I did it, all I got was “burnt beyond recognition”.

Enter into my kitchen (of all things), Weight Watchers.  Well, to be more specific, Weight Watchers Five Ingredient 15 Minute Cookbook, a magazine-like edition from 2006 which is no longer in print.  In that magazine thing, was a recipe for Honey-Pecan Chicken Breasts.  I’m not a fan of pecans, but the rest of it sounded pretty good, so I decided to make it-sans pecans, of course.

I read the directions, gathered the ingredients, and (to paraphrase Largo entertainer extraordinaire, Paul F. Tompkins) I made that thing, and it was delicious.  In fact, it was the VERY same dish I had come to love at Largo!

And now you too, can have that fabulous dish at home, and it will probably be on your dinner table way faster than if you had it at Largo’s.

Bon Appetite!

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Twice Baked Honey Chicken Breasts

INGREDIENTS:

2 tablespoons of low sodium soy sauce

2 tablespoons of honey

3/4 of a cup of crushed Kellogg’s Cornflakes (Available in the same aisle of your store where they keep the Shake n Bake.  Oh, and I tend to just pour out the crushed cornflakes on a paper plate.  I don’t really measure it. But that’s just me. I’m a rebel like that)

4 (6 oz) skinless, boneless, chicken breasts. (Actually, that’s not a hard and fast ingredient.  You can just use two. Same diff.)

Cooking Spray

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees

2. Combine soy sauce and honey in a shallow bowl. Set aside.  Pour crushed cornflakes out onto a paper plate.

3. Dip chicken breasts into soy sauce and honey mixture; dredge in crushed cornflakes, pressing cornflakes onto chicken if necessary. Place chicken breasts on a foil lined baking sheet coated with cooking spray.

4. Bake at 425 degrees for 20 to 22 minutes or until chicken is golden and done.

(h/t to Weight Watchers Five Ingredient 15 Minute Cookbook)

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I like to serve this dish in the classic Largo fashion: a side of mashed potatoes and a green salad:

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Happy birthday, Chris V.!

Posted by scott on November 1st, 2009

Today is the natal anniversary of our drinking buddy and fellow toiler in the vineyards of show biz, Chris Vosburg.  Here’s the traditional photo of Ann Coulter, fresh from her Glamour Shot session at the Shoppingtown mall at Trumbull:

What Becomes a Legend Most?  Pelts!

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Ahhh, I just love to slip into something dead!

Celebrated for his enlightening and entertaining performances in Comments, Chris is also a noted MST3K scholar, and East Hollywood’s leading advocate for obscure Dutch rock bands.  As one would imagine, such a varied c.v. suggests that November 1st has seen the birth of a large and heterogeneous collection of dignitaries, and so it has.  Also born on this day:

Dennis Muran (Occupation: Artist)  Designed special effects for Star Wars.
Louis the Stammerer (Occupation: King of France).  Louis was the son of Charles the Bald and the Father of Charles the Fat and Charles the Simple.  He was also the creator of Charles in Charge.

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Aishwarya Rai (Occupation: Actress, Singer, Prancer About)  Queen of Bollywood and an good excuse to wash the lingering Ann Coulter off our retinas.
Marcel Ophüls (Occupation: Motion Picture Director) The Sorrow and the Pity, Annie Hall
Grantland Rice
(Occupation: Newspaperman)  Dean of American Sports Writers and Father of Minute
Edward Said
(Occupation: Educator)  Author and apparently some sort of traitor
Larry Flynt
(Occupation: Business)  Prevailed over in the Supreme Court, and outlived, Jerry Falwell

Now let’s see what the heavenly bodies have in store for you:

The rulers of your Sun in Scorpio are Pluto and Mars. You are intense, passionate, perceptive, and determined.

You are also a cartoon dog with a yen for nougat, almonds, caramel and milk chocolate.

Your need to know, combined with superb intuition, makes you an excellent detective.

In fact, you’ve probably already deduced that this is all bullshit.

Your secondary ruler is Uranus.

I think that means Uranus is a bottom.

Scorpio, the scorpion: Planet: Pluto and Mars; Element: Water; Quality: Fixed; Mortgage: Adjustable; Color: Burgundy; Day: Tuesday; Weld: Also Tuesday; Stone: Topaz; Clamp?  Sponge; Part of Body Ruled: Genitals; Motto: I control; Question: You control your genitals? Can you do tricks with ‘em, like those Puppetry of the Penis guys?;  Energy: Yin

Sun Conjunct Khambalia
This fixed star has a Mercury/Mercury influence, and suggests a penetrating mind, the ability to get to the root of a matter and to uncover secrets.

It’s also the only Sun Conjunct that sounds like a fake country from a late 60s spy novel.

Your progressed Sun enters Sagittarius at age 21.

So there’s no question about the age of consent.

Your progressed Sun enters Capricorn at age 50.

Thus we assume that Capricorn is a hot cougar.

Thanks for making World O’ Crap one of your blog stops, Chris.  Have a great birthday, and enjoy the goat-horned MILF.