Let’s Eat - Baked lemons and chocolate-covered radishettes

Let’s Eat — A Writer’s Guide to Cooking
For the longest time, I’ve been planning to make pickles based on a recipe my brother’s wife uses in Armenia. Finally, I have everything together, and will make the pickles either today or tomorrow in the nifty two-quart crock I bought the other day at Goodwill for two dollars and ninety-nine cents. But I don’t want to give the recipe just yet. I will wait instead to see how the pickles turn out. If I do it right, then I will give the recipe the glorious presentation it deserves. If I do it wrong, or find I need to make some adjustments, I will try again and then give the recipe. In the meantime, I had a great idea for a sweet treat I know everyone will like, and that is an okra milkshake. Well, not really. My wife and I had to pick up a few things at the store earlier this afternoon, and for some odd reason the words “okra milkshake” popped into my head while we were waiting for a light. This sort of thing happens to me quite often. For instance, that’s where my idea for tomato ice cream came from, as well as for a peanut butter and lasagna sandwich. Here are a few other ideas, some of which almost sound legitimate, while others are merely repulsive: Baked lemons Spicy oven-fried turnips Trout cookies Pickle-and-olive soup Monkey batter Freckled mustard spread Swine wine Angel food cake with spaghetti sauce topping Stuffed baseball bats Pickled earrings Raisin, clove, and cigarette salad Buttered mint biscuits with tea oil Spinach and molasses Broccoli-and-onion omelette Apple-and-bacon enchiladas Mixed fruit casserole Starched octopus Lizard legs Squid in a blanket Cranberry noodle orange soufflé Rice pilaf with parsley and splintered pistachio shells Multi-grain eggnog Steak-and-nail sandwich Chocolate-coated radishettes Atkins-hostile carb-dipped doughnut doubles Oh, well. Anyway. Something tells me I’d better get to work on those pickles.	Also by William Michaelian POETRY Winter Poems ISBN: 978-0-9796599-0-4 52 pages. Paper. —————————— Another Song I Know ISBN: 978-0-9796599-1-1 80 pages. Paper. —————————— Cosmopsis Books San Francisco Signed copies available Main Page Author’s Note Background Notebook A Listening Thing Among the Living No Time to Cut My Hair One Hand Clapping Songs and Letters Collected Poems Early Short Stories Armenian Translations Cosmopsis Print Editions Interviews News and Reviews Highly Recommended Favorite Books & Authors Useless Information Conversation Flippantly Answered Questions E-mail & Parting Thoughts
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Let’s Eat — A Writer’s Guide to Cooking