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Show THE COLUMN is for men. For men who like to cook. Or have to cook. Especially for those who enjoy messin' around in the kitchen, now and thencoming up with something new. This is a recipe for sardine sar-dine salad. NOW BEFORE you men get out your recipe notebooks, let me give a little background: back-ground: For years My Lady Fair Louise has had acute stomach stom-ach trouble. She lived on Rice Krispies. Three months ago she had half her stomach removed. re-moved. Since then her physical phy-sical condition deteriorated even further. A change in medication resulted in startling improvement. im-provement. Suddenly she was hungry. Oh happy day. That was Friday. WE SPENT the week end at our cabin in Park City it was the first time in many months she has been able to make the trip. We intended to buy some food at the Mount Air Market, so we took nothing noth-ing along. Suddenly it was after 7 o'clock and we had missed the store. We had eaten supper at the TMI, but we enjoy a snack. Plus breakfast. break-fast. And MLF must eat several sev-eral times a day. A search of the pantry revealed re-vealed half a box of wheat thins, a can of sardines and plenty of the usual spices, including garlic. RECIPE: SARDINE SALAD Crumble fist-full of wheat thins into soup dish. Set aside. Pry open sardine can.Save top, marked 15?, for something some-thing to remember. Pour oil from sardines over crumbled wheat thins. Stir. Sprinkle heavily with salt, pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, thyme, oregano, chili powder. Stir. Cover completely with garlic. Filet sardines. Tastefully arrange filets on top of soup bowl full of wheat thins and sardine oil, well spiced. Garnish with several shots of after-shave lotion preferably pre-ferably Brut to make it desirable. de-sirable. Serves two. The nicest thing about this said is that is it pretty. Try it some time. Gwan. I dare you. INCIDENTALLY, next time youspendalongevening before the fireplace, watching watch-ing the boob tube or reading a good book while it's a blizzard bliz-zard outdoors, keep track of the number of times you hit the refrigerator. Even if you're not a weight-watcher, it's amazing amaz-ing how often you think of just a bite, or a bit of leftover, left-over, or a glass of milk, or a piece of candy. At the commercial break you'll even arise and head for the kitchen only to realize real-ize that the cupboard is just as bare as Mother Hubbard's. Hub-bard's. On the other hand, if you're a good cook like me, you can always die into a beautiful bowl of sjrdine salad. Mac |