Our Recipe

Just in time for the holidays, today's recipe comes from someone we all know and love. It was something we used to make when Mom worked until suppertime and we had the house (and kitchen) to ourselves after school, in Limestone, ME. I estimate we were between 3rd-4th grade at the time. This was never the same recipe twice, due to our great culinary improv skills, but here is the gist of it...

Our Recipe

Tupperware cup about 2/3 full of water

squirt of ketchup and/or mustard

spoonful of sweet relish

1 heaping tablespoon each of dry strawberry and chocolate milk powder

dollop of pickle juice

sprinkle of each of the following: cinnamon, pepper, salt, sugar, etc...to taste

Variation: Instead of water, start with some of Mom's caffiene-free diet Coke, or Tab, if there's enough in the fridge. But don't finish it or she'll be mad.

Mix well and sip (cautiously)(if you have a straw it helps). The first time we did this, it was really good (??). Subsequent recipes did not go so well. We could never duplicate the magic of the first time, but it wasn't for lack of trying.

This tasty beverage goes great with the following after school snack:

Cheese Sandwich without Using the Stove Since We Can't When Mom's Not Home

1 slice white bread

1 slice plastic-wrapped cheese

imitation bacon bits to taste (optional)

Place bread in microwave. Unwrap cheese and place on bread slice (throw away wrapper lest your mother see it and yell at you for not picking up your mess). Sprinkle with bacon bits, if using. Microwave on high (PowerTime 1 PowerTime) until really stinkin hot and melty (approx 1 minute). This was more a favorite of a cute certain someone than it was of mine. I thought the bread was soggy and gross. My mom still has that same microwave.

For those parties interested in removal of this picture from my blog, it is being held in reverse ransom. Once we have secured from you a promise to not move to Portland, it will be removed from the website. Which I don't know how to do that. But I think Steve does. Since this whole idea was his in the first place. The recipes will remain.