What We've Been Up To: What to Make

Monday, September 7, 2009

What to Make

First, for those of you who like sushi, but think plain 'ol rolls are kinda bland, buy some premade California or tuna rolls (like the ones Costco sells), take a frying pan and heat it up with a small layer of vegetable oil on the bottom. Dip your rolls into a mixture of breadcrumbs or cornmeal with seasonings (any will do), then set in the oil very shortly just to brown the breaded side of the roll. Voila, you get the texture and taste of a crunchy roll without the calories, cost or time taken to make them. It makes rolls that are merely "good" taste "great".

Second, I did a twist on a previously posted recipe. I took gingersnaps and put them in a food processor with mixed nuts (I used almonds & cashews) and a VERY little bit of margerine, just enough to make it crumbly. I processed the mixture then put it into oven safe dishes, smashed onto the bottom and lower edges. Then I cooked it at 350 for 15 minutes. Finally, remove it from the oven and add sliced fruit (I used banana) and fat free chocolate pudding. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
-Theodore Roosevelt