Mental Hotfoots REvisited

Decades ago George Carlin introduced the concept of Mental Hotfoots, which are designed to play with someone's sense of reality. I present another one for you.

Make friends with a pharmacist. Then get the pharmacist to fill several bottles with placebos and make labels saying things like, "Sodium Pentathol - Take as needed as prescribed," "Curare - Use as needed," "Cocaine - take as needed for drowsiness," and the like. Have him put poison stickers on as many things as needed. Also get a box from sodium cyanide, and put epsom salts in it. (It looks a lot like epsom salts) Place these things around your bathroom -- in fact, remove all other medications from the medicine cabinet.
Snoopy guests will get a bit of a shock as they go looking through your medicine cabinet to find things like arsenic, LSD, heroin, and other unusual substances sitting there, with pharmacist prepared labels. But they probably won't ask anything about it because it will reveal their invasiveness.
Have fun.

2009: The Recipes

Here's a slightly different approach for a retrospective -- the year in recipes.

I tried a few new recipes this year, either made by me or by others who did the cooking and preparation.

Game Hens Fit for a Dutchess along with Greek Roasted Potatoes: These were my contribution to a manifestation workshop the coven did. The hens were from a LJ friend, and were yummy. The Greek Roasted Potatoes are from a recipe on Recipeczar, but I substitute Cavenders' Greek Seasoning for the salt and pepper. These two work very well together, and it was a great meal held with my stemware and good plates and a coven member's silver service while all of us were dressed to the nines.

Icelandic Chicken: This recipe was made by a coven member for Lammas. Quite tasty, though I would have preferred a bit more spicing.

Crock Pot Pizza: I got this recipe from a BBS way back when, and it's a great one. (Had it just last week)

Friendship Bread: A friend who was staying with me made this and experimented around with it. The absolute standout was the one with the chopped bits of apple in it.

Chili: I really like my chili recipe. No, it doesn't have beans in it -- I'm a purist on that, and besides, I can't eat them anyway. It comes out flavorful but not too hot -- you can spice it up if you prefer with a dash of ceyenne.

Hoppin' John: This is my take on a southern favorite -- mine has fiesta corn in with the rice and black eyed peas to complete the protein. It's a simple recipe and also filling, plus it covers the New Year's requirement of eating black eyed peas. (Which I wasn't able to do this year)

Kim Chee Soup: Though I detest Kim Chee while uncooked, it's not bad after you boil it in broth for a while. My former roommate from Korea made this for us a couple of times.

Those are the culinary points I can rmember from the year without delving into restaurants. Hopefully this next year will be as adventuresome in the food department.