EXCELLENT FOOD TRUCK TACOS ADOBADO + PHILLY CHEESESTEAK SANDWICHES, POP QUIZ, ESPRESSO, HUMOR

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Presenting Wednesday Reader for entertaining fun.

Beginning with:

POP QUIZ
Now we know the 2nd closest star to planet earth – sun being the 1st!

QUICK QUESTION
Best type of cheese for me is extra sharp cheddar.  You?

NOTE TO SELF PIECE
Is definitely note worthy!  My favorite take-away is “People will doubt what you say,  but they will believe what you do.”

RECIPES FROM THE BEST OF THE BEST FOOD TRUCKS
Tacos Adobado + Cheesesteak Sandwiches
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TRACY BECKERMAN’S
Humorous column is full-blast grab a cup of java read!

THANKS EVERYONE
For joining us today and giving us a piece of your day + sharing + caring + engaging.
We are so very grateful.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK
Catch ya Friday
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POP Quiz

POP QUIZ

  1. THE PINK FLOYD SONG “ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2)” ASKS THE QUESTION “HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU DON’T” DO WHAT?
    a) Clean your room
    b) Eat your meat
    c) Pay the piper at the gates of dawn
    d) Tear down this wall
  2. THE SUN IS THE CLOSEST TO EARTH.  WHICH STAR IS THE SECOND CLOSEST?
    a) Barnard’s star
    b) Betelgeuse
    c) Proxima Centauri
    d) Sirius
  3. WHICH TWO OSCAR WINNERS WERE THE ORIGINAL STARS OF THE 1970s TV SERIES “THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO?”
    a) Ernest Borgnine and Sally Field
    b) Louis Gosset Jr. and Al Pacino
    c) George Kennedy and Christopher Plummer
    d) Karl Malden and Michael Douglas
Wednesday Reader June 5

QUICK QUESTION

WHAT’S THE BEST TYPE
OF CHEESE FOR YOU?

Wednesday Reader June 5

POP QUIZ ANSWERS

  1. The Pink Floyd song “Another Brick in the Wall (Part2) asks the question “How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
  2. Proxima Centauri is Earth’s second-closest stellar neighbor, after the sun.
  3. Karl Malden and Michael Douglas were the original stars of the 1970s TV series “The Streets of San Francisco.”

~COPYRIGHT 2024 LESLIE ELMAN, TRIVIA BITS
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NOTE TO SELF

  • A man with one watch knows what time it is: a man with two watches is never quite sure.
  • Don’t look where you fell, but where you slipped.
  • Look at life through the windshield, not the rear view mirror.
  • People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
  • Be nice to people on your way up, because you may need them on your way down.
  • Never explain.  Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it.
  • While seeking revenge, dig two graves — one for you.
  • Courage is not a lack of fear, but the ability to act while facing fear.
  • If you’re headed in the wrong direction, you are allowed a U-turn.
  • You’ve got to do your own growing no matter how tall your father was.
  • Pain is temporary.  Quitting is forever.
  • The best way to create you future is to create it.

I TAKE IT ONE DAY AT A TIME,
BUT A MOMENT AT A TIME
AND I KEEP IT AT THAT PACE.
IF YOU CAN BE HAPPY RIGHT NOW,
THEN YOU’LL ALWAYS BE HAPPY,
BECAUSE IT’S ALWAYS IN THE NOW.

~ WILLIE NELSON ~

INSTANT KARMA

ONE GOOD THING LEADS TO ANOTHER

RIDDLE ME THIS

WHAT ENGLISH WORD HAS
3 CONSECUTIVE DOUBLE LETTERS?

Wednesday Reader June 5

EAT THE STREETS

~ A couple of delicious culinary creations made and served by suburban food trucks ~

TACOS ADOBADO

This fabulous recipe comes from the food truck, Tacos El Asadero, Seattle, Washington, and tips its hat to tacos prepared in the “pasture style,” known as al pastor.  Makes about 15 small tacos.

  • 2 cups diced yellow onion
  • 2 TBSP minced garlic
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 2 tsp dried coriander
  • 2 tsp dried oregano
  • 2 TBSP chili powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 TBSP honey
  • 2 TBSP red wine vinegar
  • 3 pounds pork butt or loin, cut into chunks
  • 3 cups chicken broth
  • 15-20 corn tortillas
  • salsa of choice
  • 6 radishes, trimmed and thinly sliced

HERE’S HOW WE PREPARE IT:

  1. Place the onions, garlic, cinnamon, coriander, oregano, chili powder, salt honey and vinegar in a large mixing bowl and whisk all well.
  2. Add the pork chunks to mixture to marinade and massage (with clean hands) well into the meat.
  3. Cover the bowl and let the pork marinate in the fridge overnight.
  4. Preheat oven to 350*
  5. Place the pork with its marinating liquid in a large baking dish.
  6. Add 1 cup of chicken broth and bake until very tender – about 1 1/2 hours
    (pro tip – pork loin will cook faster than pork butt.)
  7. Check the pork every 30 minutes – if it seems too dry, add more chicken broth.
  8. When pork is done baking.  Remove from oven.
  9. Discard liquid and let pork chunks rest on a cutting board for about 30 minutes.
  10. Chop or shred after 30 minutes.
  11. Warm tortillas, one at a time, in a medium high skillet until pliable.  About 30 seconds on each side.
  12. As you work, wrap the tortillas in a clean kitchen cloth to keep them warm.
  13. Place warm corn tortillas on plates and put shredded pork on tortillas.
  14. Top/serve with salsa and sliced radishes.
  15. As a side kick  (think seasoned black beans).

CHEESESTEAK SANDWICHES
WITH PROVOLONE AND BROCCOLI RABE

This TDF recipe hails from the food cart, MickeyD’s Grill, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
(note – really great Italian sandwich rolls are super important)  Makes 4 sandwiches

  • 4 TBSP (1/2 stick) butter
  • 3 cups thinly sliced onions
  • 2 cups 1″pieces of broccoli rabe, blanched.
    To blanche, bring 8 cups of water to a boil.  Add broccoli rabe and cook for 2 minutes.  Immediately drain and plunge into ice water to stop cooking.  Drain again and pat dry with paper towels.
  • 1 1/2 pounds rare deli roast beef, sliced thin and chopped
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper
  • 4 fresh Italian sandwich rolls
  • 8 thickly sliced pieces of deli provolone cheese

NOW WE PUT THE SANDWICHES TOGETHER:

  1. Melt the butter in a large heavy skillet over medium high heat.
  2. Add the onions and cook until lightly browned – about 5 minutes.
  3. Add the broccoli rabe and diced roast beef.
  4. Season with salt and pepper.
  5. Cook until heated through – about 4 minutes, stirring frequently.
  6. Preheat oven broiler to high.
  7. Using a knife, split the rolls lengthwise, stopping just short of cutting all the way through.
  8. Open the rolls up like a book.
  9. Divide broccoli rabe, onions and beef mixture evenly among rolls.
  10. Top each sandwich with 2 slices of provolone.
  11. Place sandwiches under the broiler until the cheese melts – about 2 minutes.

~ from The Truck Food Cookbook
by John T. Edge
Workman Publishing, New York

RIDDLE ANSWER

BOOKKEEPER

Wednesday Reader June 5

LOST IN SUBURBIA

WHEN TROUBLE IS BREWING
BY TRACY BECKERMAN

My husband was never much of a coffee drinker, but after a business trip to Italy, he became enamored with espresso.  At first he would just order it in restaurants.  Then he started frequenting fancy coffee shops.  Eventually he bought his own machine, and not just one of those pop-in-a-pod-call-it- espresso machines.  No, he went full-on-caffeine-crazy and ordered a high-end professional machine.  Before I knew it, he was a stay-at-home barista with his own monogrammed apron and an espresso mistress he named Audine.

“Something’s wrong with Audine,” he said one morning.  “She’s making a very weak macchiato.”

“Can I help?”  I asked, sipping my much less glamorous cup of tea.

“No,” he said.  “She’s a very complex machine, and you don’t know how to work her.”

“You could show me,” I said.

“I don’t think so,” he replied.  “I only give out that information of a need-to-brew basis.”

I was actually relieved to be cut out of their affair.  Audine was a very fickle espresso machine, and I really couldn’t be party to her mood swings.  Weeks would go b where she was reliable and devoted to my husband.  But then she would turn on a dime and make bitter, acrid espresso.  I would sit to the side, silently cursing Audine as she toyed with my husband, keeping him occupied for hours while he blew out the grinder and cleaned the machine.  Eventually, he would get her to start working properly again, but not before our evening date night plans had been dashed by the harlot Audine.

Sadly, this was not the first time he’d been infatuated with a machine.  Years ago, we had a GPS in our car with a sultry English accent.  My husband stopped taking directions from me and only listened to her.  Even when she took us onto a road that wasn’t there, he would let her off easy, citing computer error.  But then one day she got us lost on a road trip.  We ran out of gas, and there was no Wi-Fi and no one around except a herd of heffers.  I’m pretty sure that was the beginning of the end of their love affair.

Meanwhile, back at espresso central, more than the milk was starting to steam as my husband tried unsuccessfully to get Audine to make a decent macchaito.  I suspected she knew he’d cheated on her with a Starbucks the previous day, and she was taking revenge.

“I don’t know why Audine isn’t working right,” he said in frustration as he tried cleaning out the grinder for a third time.

I sat on the sofa reading a book and pretending not to notice all the coffee drama.

“Maybe I should try a different bean,” he said, mostly to himself.

“You probably have oils clogging up the portafilter,” I said, not looking up from my book.

He stopped tinkering with the machine and stared at me.

“It’s probably from that dark Ethiopian blend you bought, ” I said.  “A natural oil cleanser would remove the oil accumulations pretty easily.”

His jaw dropped a little.

“How do you know about this?”  he finally asked.

“Oh, you know,” I replied, pointing to my laptop.  “Just a few things I picked up from my handsome computer, Pierre.”

~ Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “Barking at the Moon:  A Story of Life, Love, and Kibble
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Fascinating Stuff

  • Oskar Speck paddled a kayak away from Hamburg, Germany, in May 1932.  He was bound for Cyprus, with plans to work there in a copper mine, until he decided to kayak around the world instead.  He went to Syria, India, Singapore and Indonesia — paddling some 30,000 miles in the ensuing years, while Europe’s political climate was in turmoil.  When he reached Australia in 1939, the world was at war.  Speck was met bgy Australian authorities, who congratulated him on his seafaring accomplishment and then put him in prison as an enemy.
  • Little kids see broccoli and think it looks like trees.  The great English painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) thought the same, and the trees in some of his landscape paintings might actually be his rendition of broccoli stalks.  Because painting landscapes outdoors requires ideal views and weather conditions, Gainsborough sometimes painted landscapes based on models he built in his studio using twigs, rocks, coal — and broccoli for trees.
  • Ordinary marathons through the streets of major world cities not challenging enough for you?  Consider the Great Wall Marathon or the Conquer the Wall Marathon, which include running up thousands of stone steps to follow a course along the top of the Great Wall of China.  And you thought interval training on the treadmill at your gym was tough!
  • French King Louis XIV loved to dance, not merely in the ballroom but also in the ballet.  His most memorable role was in a production of “Le Ballet de la Nuit” when he was 15 years old — about 10 years into his 72-year reighn as king of France.  He performed the role of Apollo, god of the sun, wearing a golden costume.  The performance was so dazzling it earned Louis his nickname:  “The Sun King.”
  • A couple of years before his death in 1973, martial arts master Bruce Lee wrote a proposal for a TV series about a Chinese martial arts master living in the Wild West of the United States.  Studios gave it a pass and then (coincidentally?) produced “Kung Fu,” starring David Carradine as a martial arts master from China living in the Old West.  Bruce Lee was turned down for the lead!

~ COPYRIGHT 2024 LESLIE ELMAN, TRIVIA BITS
DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM

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2 replies
  2. Carol says:

    Who’d have thought good ol’ Willie Nelson was a philosopher! Love his wisdom.

    Note to Self – In keeping with previous Kindness proverbs, to this impressive list I would add: People may not remember what you say, but they will always remember how you make them feel.

    I need to revisit my science classes – some of the star names in Lesley’s quiz were unfamiliar to me. But now I am in the know!

    Looking forward to Friday’s issue. . .

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