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Hey Blog Guy, I know you love to cook and sometimes share culinary secrets.
Do you have a good recipe for homemade pesto? It’s the BEST sauce with fresh linguine!
I spoke to an Italian chef, and I think I can help you out. You’ll need a butt-load of fresh basil, some parmesan, pine nuts, garlic and olive oil. I’m going to make a trial batch in my own kitchen while I write this.
I really appreciate it, Blog Guy. Okay, then what?
Now, the chef said the key to pulverizing the basil properly is, you need a mortar and pistol.
Excuse me? I need a piece of army field artillery and a handgun?
It surprised me, too. I was able to find my mortar at a rebel gun show in Libya. I thought it was strange that even Williams-Sonoma doesn’t sell a mortar and pistol combo. Seems like they’re missing a good opportunity.
Anyway, I’m loading all the basil and other ingredients into the mortar on my kitchen counter top right now.
So now I’m dropping in the mortar round…
STOP, Blog Guy! I’m pretty sure the chef said MORTAR and PESTLE! You know, the big stone grinding kitchen tool you use for making guacamole!
Oh. Well. Don’t I feel stupid! Do you know anybody who can replace an entire ceiling before my wife gets home from work?
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Top left: Mortar and pestle and pesto
Left: A rebel fighter holds an 81mm illumination mortar shell, that he claims belonged to Gaddafi’s forces, on the frontline along the western entrance of Ajdabiyah April 14, 2011. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Right: Hollywood actress Milla Jovovich poses for photographers at a news conference in a 2004 file photo. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
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Hmmmm, That’s REAL interesting that he would be holding an American (or British) mortar round. Everyone knows (well, at least my horticulturist’s therapist knows) the best thing for crushing garlic and spice and everything nice is the tread of an M1-Tank, and here you can see the South Koreans putting that into practice: http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/20 11/06/15/shooting-blanks-from-some-hidde n-tanks
Anyway, I’m digging Milla. Thanks BG!
@Dave_not_dave: You’re digging Milla or her gun, Dave? I’d say both!
Mortar pic: the mortar says 81 mm ILLUM, which, in Maltese can mean that there was 81 mm (of rain?) today. ILLUM is today in Maltese! For a minute, I thought I was seeing Maltese writing on that mortar…
Oh, what’s that electric sound I hear in the distance…Shra, is that you?
If you mishandle an ordinary mortar and pestle, the result may be explosive diarrhea.
With the ‘blog guy special’ version, the entire restuarnt is in trouble.
It is indeed, Malt…
You guys just make my day!!!
Zapppp!!!
Spin, hows this for an amateur haiku
Malt makes a mistake again
and goes on to teach Maltese now!
Time to zap, I say!
You pasted it this time, RB.
@Amlt – digging Milla. The gun doesn’t look real. Watch out for Shra, she’s zap-happy.
Wait, on the mortar …
Is that a Star of David holding an open parachute?
I sense a conspiracy here!
And for absolutely perfect linguine you can cook it in a small nuclear reactor and have two big, matching holes in your ceiling.
Dave, whatever happened to “Ahhhh, classic. Hold the pistol right-handed, aim with left eye. I’ve met maybe two people who could actually shoot that way – everyone else who tries it can’t understand why they can’t hit the side of a barn from 25 m. Aaaaaany way….” You were too busy digging Milla this time to notice, I’m sure.
Milla winks at gun
The Element is Fifth one
Doesn’t need the gun.
It’s Milla with the new Popeil Pesto Pistol! As Seen On TV, a shot of real basil flavor in every round. Though it is kind of hard on the dinner plates…
is the guy holding the mortar pointing with that finger or making a statement?
Hey Blog Guy, I bet there’s no vampires within 100 yards of your house.
Yes, Peach,
To me, that be a statement.
I’m here with my mortal and pizzle, cooking away. I have my basil along with the pizzle, but gee, I don’t know exactly how much a buttload is, or whether I should choose mortar round or ground round. BG?
@Moon – you got it. She can shoot any way she darn well pleases. However, I get the feeling that you are trying to set me up to be zapped again, by implying you learned something….
@Dave – yes indeed. Milla can pesto-whip me anytime she wants.
Now THIS is my kinda post! Mmmm pesto! Mmmmm food! Mmmm eating!!
E.
@Dave, she is not cross-aiming. She is winking at you. And in that split second of the wink is your chance to disarm and….subdue her.
There is a lot of underlying drooling going on here…
Milla, the garlic isnt working..
@Onedoor…and with every Pesto Pistol purchased, get the new and improved Popeil Pocket Fisherman. Ah, I thought everyone had forgotten those days!
Hats off for @Spin for the zap-dodging above… back at you zapper!
Nice ‘haiku’ @Shra… hehehe