Friend oldyaker,
Ever made any spicy granola? Hold on....now wait jest a dang minute. Look here, I aint all the way crazy. For those lucky enuff ta know, that last line come frum "Dancin' Outlaw", where Jesco White wuz tryin' ta git hiz wife ta quit messin' up with hiz good life. But no, ya'll aint ever seen it have ya? Why? Well I'll tell ya.
Ya try real hard ta git West By God Virgin-ya public tv ta sell ya a honest copy, but no...they wont sell ya one. Dont have none fer sale 'n dont know where ta git none. It wuz a guviment trick ta keep folks frum seein' it. I got a copy frum a honest fella who paid good money fer hiz copy. I took it out ta a store 'n paid 'em ta make some copies............fer historikle purposes.
It wuz okay til I give a copy ta the High Sheriff, who must not have watched it before he give it ta Swampy. If he wants ta try ta tell ya'll where it went, that iz hiz bizness. I caint risk no more copies....but Mister Gores internet iz a big place, even bigger'n ebay az I best I kin tell. Googlize it 'n yer off after the Holy Grail of Appalachia. Mebbe Ole Tom Arnold kin help ya find a copy? Dont ask Miz Roseanne cuz she didnt care fer Jesco.
Where wuz I? Oh yeah....spicy granola. That iz where I see jalapeno show its stuff. Some mite use habanero....but most of 'em iz cereal killers.
Ya kin cook some peppers in peanut oil, strain 'em out, then mix the oil with honey 'n presto change-o. It aint yer grandmothers granola. When I make granola, I like peanuts 'n almonds chopped up, not pecans 'er walnuts. Pisstachios would be okay if they aint dyed red. Pine nuts=ok.
This granola would go good with plain non-fat yogurt 'er jest fer a snackin' when the Windego gits after ya out in the boundary waters up on the tundra. I reckon it mite cauze quite a stir at a cocktail party. Once upon a time I went ta a cocktail party. I seen why they called 'em that. :mrgreen:
If ya git old 'er lazy, Zatarains iz always handy, but so iz some really fine bottled hot sauces. [Watch out fer the one frum China with a rooster on it.] The Sparkanator iz partial ta the Panola brand, but like Ole Will Rogers, I never met a pepper I didnt like....cept that first time I cooked chili with habaneros.
culinarily yern,
bearridge
bodine college of modern history
The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. P.J. O'Rourke
