sledge-o-matic

I made a squash blossom soup from a Diana Kennedy recipe, and I wasn't going to post about it, because it was a little boring. However, upon tasting it today I decided that the flavor had improved after a day and also that it would be a dynamite base for a chunky stew. With beef stew meat and potatoes. Or chicken.

You remove the flower petals on a few bunches of squash blossoms (the more the better) and chop them, and cook them with some broth for about 15 minutes. Blend this mixture, trying not to spray the cabinets with hot soup as I did.

Then, roast a couple of tomatoes on broil in the oven, watching out to try to avoid getting burnt patches on the skin.
Blend the tomatoes with half a chopped onion, and then cook the tomato/onion mixture for 5 minutes on high over a couple of tablespoons of lard. She said butter but I used lard. Add that mixture to the squash blossom mixture with a sprig of epazote. So that's the second time this week I've been bummed I don't have any epazote.
In the spirit of the Barnseyard, here are some quotes from Netflix about Gallagher. I've been thinking about my family's love for Gallagher this week. Perhaps a Crest employee would like to comment on what it was like when Gallagher played the Crest? I heard some stories about his brother (who ripped off his act, I think), and how mean he is.

P.S.-don't forget that Dan will be on AM 1530 tomorrow at 4:40. He's hitting the big time.

This is the Dirty Gallagher... not that funny, and I am a fan of his not dirty comedy channel shows. And not one Watermelon Smashing worth a yuk. Pass on this one... a loser...

If your impression of Gallagher is just some weird comedian that smashes up food products and produce, you are sorely mistaken

Then he bring his "estranged" brother Ron out to run the Sledge-o-matic!!!! It gets worse. The next to last show was filmed in 2000, and at one point Gallagher states his age as 54. He berates his nephew (about 4 yrs old) on stage. Then a 10 year old audience memeber gets the same treatment.

Gallagher is back, about time! With great humor comes great responsibility, and the man for the job is the one bashing watermellons into the comedy starved minds of Americans. I am just tired of all these artsy fartsy alternative comedians. You got your Suri Silverman, the David Crosses, the Patton Oswalts, these liberal "look at me, I'll expose hypocracy through humor, nah, nah, nah" make me sick. I want mind numbing comedy, the kind that makes you forget what day it is...that's Gallagher. There's the comments about his wife being too fat to b@ng, to him doing a complete 180 and smashing watermellons. Insane! Why don't we drop tons of these dvds in Iraq, I bet them enemies of ours will be overcome with laughter, enough so they'll forget they're at war with us and we can take them. Yup. Gallagher can be our WMD (Weapon of Mass Destraction).

Pass this up and move on to something with a little more humor. Like Amistad.