I continue today with old A&J Sunday strips you won’t see anywhere but here, although I think maybe this particular strip has been shown before at arloandjanis.com. I’m not sure. This one is from 1993 and was drawn shortly after the first meeting at the seashore between son Gene and Mary Lou. No one suspected, least of all myself, how momentous that little storyline would prove.
Arlo and Janis has a lot of followers in the upper Midwest. I want to remind you that the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning gets underway today in Wisconsin. You might want to check it out if you do, indeed, live in the area. In the past, I would have posted a link for you, but unless there is something specific I want to show you it’s so much easier for everyone if I simply encourage you to “Google it.” You know what to do. If you do make it to the festival, tell ’em Arlo and Janis sent you.
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As I was adding my sister’s Jezebel Sauce to my recipe collection, I came across a recipe for Comeback Sauce. Since, as far as I can tell, it’s a regional thing, I felt some here might be interested. If you are ever passing through Hattiesburg MS, you should (as I usually do) stop in at the Crescent City Grill. This is their recipe.
As Chef/Owner Robert St. John says, “This is the ultimate Mississippi condiment, invented in the Greek restaurants of Jackson, Mississippi. At the restaurant [CCG], we receive more comments on Comeback dressing than any other. People love it. It is versatile, and it is good. Use as a salad dressing, or as a fried-seafood condiment. I enjoy dipping crackers into it. [My wife] likes it on burgers, and there is absolutely no other condiment that should be served with onion rings.”
Or by extension, I suppose, with French fries. And yes, there is a long tradition of Greek restaurants in Jackson, MS. Remember Chef Cat Cora on The Food Network?
Crescent City Grill’s Comeback Sauce
Ingredients
1 cup Mayonnaise
1/2 cup Ketchup
1/2 cup Chili Sauce
1/2 cup Cottonseed Oil
1/2 cup Yellow Onion, grated
3 Tbsp Lemon Juice
2 Tbsp Garlic, minced
1 Tbsp Paprika
1 Tbsp Water
1 Tbsp Worcestershire
1 tsp Pepper
1/2 tsp Dry Mustard
1 tsp Salt
Directions
Combine all ingredients in a food processor and mix well. Yield: 3 1/2 cups
So, Lady Mindy, the universe will end either due to something you accidentally do, or when it reaches a state of maximum entropy. No offense, but I’m rooting for entropy…it will take longer. 🙂
If you believe the climate changers, endothermic enthaply is going to bake us all in the near future. Given Ghost’s recipes, we should be stuffed before we get baked. 😉
OF predicted to erupt btw. 6:00-6:20 pm CDT. Peace, emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
GR6: Yay, quality control! Uh, that does mean “tasting”, doesn’t it?
That reminds me of this classic “I Love Lucy” bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7IfR4fZW_k
c x-p: Right, I made sure to put in them wherever possible, just to make the point. The model “its vs. it’s” sentencing following was a happy accident.
Not that I have never misplaced an apostrophe, even here. As you know, the two things a teacher must learn to say willingly are “I was wrong” and “I don’t know.”
BRIAN WILLIAMS (NBC NEWS) “Yesterday’s coordinated marches calling attention to climate change drew some huge crowds in big cities, that includes an estimated 400,000-plus here in New York and while there were nay-sayers pointing to the mountains of trash left behind and the carbon footprint of the traffic jams that were caused by the march, it was a big coordinated statement nonetheless and the events and awareness campaign continued today.”
Plus the carbon footprint of the vehicles used to transport them all there. Exacerbating a problem in the process of “calling attention to it” strikes me as fairly ridiculous. I suppose that to some people, the ends justify the means, but perhaps they should give some thought to holding their next “big coordinated statement” in China or India.
In case you wondered why I suggested they take their message to China…
http://naturalgasnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/china-smog.jpg
Loon favors Tiananmen Square. It can handle large gatherings and has weather perfect for a climate change protest. Not to mention getting there from the Beijing Airport is a logistic feat everyone should try one time. As an afternote, the police are well armed and capable of effective crowd control.
Second place goes to Hong Kong, they seem to be favoured by protestors of late.
Not sure if the tears streaming from my eye(s) is from coughing or laughing at you all, I did both!
Haven’t tried Ghost’s sisters Jezebel Sauce but that is the one I remembered from the south, the hot sweetness on cream cheese or shrimp, which of course is just a base to hold the sauce. Once there was a commercial jarred version by another name but I think it is no longer sold? Tiger Sauce or something similar?
Got about 130 plus or minus hostas and thrown out of the garden center so they could let clerk go home and lock down. Garden manager did invite me back to discuss roses and dogwoods in case I would like to take them home too.
There are literally millions of persimmon fruits on all the trees along the lake side bridges, loaded. I know possums eat them or so I am told. What other animals/birds? It is officially Indian Summer here now.
Going to China would also give many of the protesters a chance to learn just how “safe” they feel in a society where only the police and military are allowed to have guns. And when their police “militarize”, it means the “People’s” Army arrives on the scene in Main Battle Tanks.
http://www.ugr.es/~gesi/tank-man-china-web.jpg
Don’t know about a commercial version of Jezebel Sauce, Jackie, but Tiger Sauce is something different and is still available. In fact, I have a bottle in my refrigerator now. It’s used as an ingredient in a Cajun recipe for Red Beans and Sausage which as I recall I got from Chef John Folse’s “The Encyclopedia of Cajun and Creole Cuisine”…which seems to weigh 20 pounds or more. Tiger Sauce is used in some Asian wok dishes as well.
http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/07/50/76/10/0007507610001_500X500.jpg
Ghost, you are right, of course. That is Tiger Sauce and you can tell I have been in OK too long. That used to be a regular condiment in our fridge and pantry. I do not know who made the commercial sauce but I do remember it and not name.
So, who among our Indiana group has been to the persimmon festival in Mitchell, IN or knows how to make wild persimmon pudding with fresh whipped cream?
My Indiana aunt makes persimmon cookies because for some reason she got persimmons in LA to take home with her? Maybe easier pickings?
White tail deer relish persimmons which might explain some of the dead deer on highway by lake which I thought was water need.
Love, Jackie
Jackie, I was curious about a commercial source for Jezebel Sauce, but I only found a handful of small specialty shops that sell it, one in MS, one in ND, and believe it or not, one in OKC.
http://www.inthekitchenwithscotty.com/
Perhaps what you remember was produced locally to you then but is no longer available.
jackie, here you are: http://bellbucklecompanystore.com/products/captain-rodney-s-private-reserve-temptation-of-jezebel-sauce
I learned to make the dessert we had this evening, Bosc pears (from our back yard) stewed in red wine sauce. Yummy! We had a great dinner and now I am supposed to join the group in the Sunroom. See you all later!
The Sunroom at 2010 hrs CDT. I presume it is wired for that.
Here’s an interesting twist on climate change.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/science/for-polar-bears-a-climate-change-twist.html?_r=0
Peace, emb
Lots of items on this Jimmy [or Ginny?] Durante hadrosaur, but this has a painting you can enlarge. The body coloring is probably conjectural, though skin patterns are sometimes preserved.
http://phys.org/news/2014-09-hadrosaur-noses-spotlight.html
Thanks for the sources on Jezebel Sauce! I am going to make Ghosts sister’s recipe if I live past mid October!
The really funny thing is that the source listed on the OKC product used to be a good account of ours, it’s an upscale florist and gift shop, trendy, trendy and nice. Anyway, therein may lie the answer, I did spend over 25 years in the wholesale and gift market, going to permanent markets, temporary markets, florists’ markets and shows. These are the exact kind of markets gourmet product entrepreneurs show in, and I worked all the southern states and as far west as Arizona, north to Kansas, so I’d get lots of regional exposure.
And Mike of course was in wine and gourmet market for years and years before he got into my personal insane market. So, lots of chances to have run into these. I suspect I have been in most places prior to last few years that can pass as a gourmet shoppe!
“No danger, I ain’t goin’ done that road agin! Too old and too tired. ” I will be lucky to make some for myself.
Love, Jackie
I’ve been in Gainesville and I apologize but you’ve all been very talkative. I’m afraid that I won’t have the time to catch up but I wanted to say to Trucker that henways are not well made and they all break eventually.
Jerry in Fl: henways are not well made and they all break eventually.
Especially in the hands of a 3 year-old boy.
OTOH, the new latex banners (held together with velcro) don’t break so easily as the old butcher paper… when it’s the Wallkill Mighty Mites (Age 6-7) football team!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-QW2YhKq-A#t=39
Jezebel Sauce from The Bell Buckle Company Store, eh? I researched that, for reasons that will be apparent in a moment, and found that it operates from an address outside of Chapel Hill TN. Just west of that location is the small town of Bell Buckle, which is “just a little piece up the road” from Wartrace (as they would say there).
I have two cousins who live in that area, and when I last visited them about this time two years ago, we had a wonderful country-style meal at the Bell Buckle Cafe on a Friday evening. As we were waiting outside for a table, an elderly lady was leaving with her son. As moms are wont to do, she was paying more attention to him making it safely down two rather tall concrete steps to the sidewalk than she was watching out for her own footing. Sure enough, she tripped and sailed forward off the top step.
I am so attuned to guarding against my own Mom falling, as well as watching out for my dearest friend who has some serious physical impairments, that I had automatically been watching the lady closely, and as she fell, I took two steps forward and caught her in my arms, saving her from doing a full face-plant on the sidewalk, as well as probably breaking up like kindling wood. I sat her gently on her feet, ascertained that she was OK, and looked up to find my cousins and everyone else out front staring at me with mouths wide open, in dead silence. So of course I had to take a small bow and say, “For our next trick…”
As you say, Jackie, or at least implied, it’s a small world.
The Mighty Mites’ opponent needs to sign that banner as its defensive line.
emb: this time of year, the only times we venture into the Sunroom is after the sun gets behind the trees. But it is still here 24/7/365. It is as unchanging as the Northern Star, except for temperature. But it is still the most beautiful room in the house with its brick floor, whitewashed walls, cedar post columns, and beaded board ceiling. And:
Climate change, forsooth. As Donald Trump would say, it’s called “weather” 😛