Only 28 more comments & SOMEone will take home the steak knives. This is beginning to get exciting. Wonder if it'll happen before the blog slips to page 2?
@Mimi Bluebear upside down cake: In a cake pan - One stick of butter, melted. Bluebears (or whatever is in season) Cover with a pancake-like batter. (Bisquik?) Bake. Top with whipped cream, or as desired.
This showed up at a local church gig & was a BIG hit!
Rosie told the recipe, and I've related it - though imprecisely. Have fun workIng out the details!
It was sort of like very fluffy Belgian waffles - only in a cake pan.
Garrison Keillor...The worid's tallest radio comedian. Yep.
I grew up in Upper Midwestern USA. To hear how I speak, search "Prairie Home Companion" & listen to Garrison Keillor...with a bit of Deep Southern added.
When I was about 20, a group of us Minnesotans spent a Summer working in Appalachia. When we first arrived one of our group asked a Kentuckian if there were any bears there. Answer?
"We have lotsa bears here - bluebears, strawbears, razzbears..."
I wonder what would have happened if he Minnesotan asked the Kentuckian how to get to the nearest BAR!
Warrops is probably correct. Your writing certainly has an American kind of style. Kinda hard to define "American", though. There are many variations, dialects & accents.
There was a Chinese guy named Chan who did carvings of teak wood, and sold them in his shop. One day, he opened the shop & noticed some of his carvings were missing.
The next night, he spread flour on the floor to see if someone entered the shop to steal the carvings. The next morning some carvings were missing. And there were footprints of a small boy in the flour.
The next night, Chan waited in the shop to catch the culprit. Soon, a bear entered the shop & started picking up the carvings. Chan noticed that the bear had feet like those of a young boy. He jumped out and yelled..."Halt, boy foot bear with teaks of Chan!"
So true about the authenticity of the ethnic foods...seems they all get rather "Americanized". It's still okay, just not "authentic".
There is (or at least was) a very good relatively authentic Chinese eatery in Menomonie, WI. I forget the name. It's near the Mabel Tainter Theater, as I remember.
RE: "TRIP TO PLUTO"
Still on page one...Exciting...Sooo exciting!