Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
peanut soup
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
Peanut Soup
Ingredients:
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 small onion, chopped
1 stick butter
3 tablespoons flour
2 quarts chicken broth, heated
2 cups peanut butter
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon celery salt
1 cup ground peanuts
1) In a large saucepan, saut� the celery and onion in the butter
for five minutes.
2) Add the flour, stirrin' 'til blended.
3) Stir in the hot chicken broth.
4) Simmer for thirty minutes, stirrin' occasionally.
4) Remove from heat and strain.
5) Return the liquid to the saucepan and stir in the peanut butter,
lemon juice, salt, and celery salt.
6) Cook just 'til heated through, stirrin' frequently.
7) Sprinkle each servin' with ground peanuts.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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