Hi folks, Chef G. here, and thank you so much for the huge round of applause. Let me start today's show by saying I'm happier than a python who just ingested a whole pig to be here. I'll tell you why.
As you are well aware, The Chef G. Cooking Channel has offered a long history of entertaining and revolutionary cooking shows, but this should be the most entertaining and revolutionary episode yet. That's because The Chef G. Media Empire will be issuing a major, major, major, MAJOR press release in the next few days.
But this morning I asked myself, "why should the 50-million readers* of my blog have to wait even one more minute for the major, major, major, MAJOR announcement?"
"Good question," I replied to myself, "something MUST be done about such an injustice."
That inner dialog is what convinced me to leak the huge, huge, huge, HUGE announcement right here, right now. That's right, as a “thank you” for your loyalty and admiration, you folks get to hear it first:
Chef G. is branching out into the lucrative world of radio podcasting.
Podcasts seem to be all the rage these days. Even doofuses like Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Taylor Swift's boyfriend are making big bucks from their podcasts. Why shouldn't I cash in too?
And here comes the best part. I'm going to provide all of you Chef G-niuses,** with a sneak preview of my podcast before it gets released to the general public. So, without further ado, I invite you to join in on an excerpt from the pilot episode of The Chef G. Food Podcast.
Footnotes in small print:
*In Chef G.'s world, “one-million” equals “about 1..” However, that equation is going to change dramatically when the world discovers my podcast. I'm talking about hundreds of millions of followers and tens of millions of U.S. Dollars flowing straight into in my pocket.
**As a rock star in the chef world, I thought I should give my fans a name . . . something similar to Deadheads, Swifties, Beatlemaniacs, Nirvana Nation, Kiss Army, Rolling Stoners, etc. You gotta admit, "Chef G-niuses" is incredibly clever.
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Hi folks. I'm back live now. If you liked what you heard, I encourage you to download "The Chef G. Food Podcast" App from Spitify, Crapple, Spewtube, I Hate Radio, Goggle, Oddible, or any of the other podcast providers.
PART TWO
I sense there are two or three of you who didn't even bother to click the play button on "The Chef G. Food Podcast." You don't give a rat's ass about ANY podcast by ANYBODY. You just want to see what I've been cooking this week. Okay, I get it. Here comes a bonus section for you folks.
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Tomato season has been going on for about a few weeks here in Minnesota. I have a couple neighbors who have more tomatoes than they can handle and are begging me and Mrs. Chef G. to take their excess tomatoes off their vines. They don't have to ask me twice. And I don't have to tell my Chef G-niuses that fresh, garden-grown tomatoes are 15-times tastier than grocery store tomatoes. That's a scientific fact.
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| They taste as good as they look . . . and they're FREE. |
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| The bigger tomatoes came from another generous neighbor's garden. They're just as delicious and the same price--zero dollars per pound. |
In the last two weeks I've used fresh tomatoes to make several Bacon Lettuce & Tomato sandwiches, tossed salads, and a big batch of salsa. I also used a few in a jambalaya yesterday. But delicious garden tomatoes don't have to be used in recipes. I have no problem eating small tomatoes like grapes, and large tomatoes like apples.
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| Holy bloodygoshdammit, that was one fine BLT. |
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| Small tomatoes are even BETTER than grapes, in my opinion. |
A couple weeks ago, I turned down one of our neighbors' offer of even more tomatoes. She really needed to unload them, but I really thought I had enough to last for weeks. When I told Mrs. Chef G., she overruled me on that one. She went back to get more tomatoes from that neighbor. Then she reminded me that tomatoes can be frozen for future recipes—like soup, stew, chili, pasta sauce, and a few other dishes I like to cook. I hate it when she's right.
You can never go wrong with tater tots. I loved the Napoleon Dynamite reference. Whoa - those callers - two in a row talking about roadkill or chicken guts. That was a lot of squishiness in one go.
ReplyDeleteThe BLT and tomatoes look delicious. There really is no comparison between home grown and supermarket tomatoes. And you'll thank Mrs G in the middle of winter when you go to make a marinara and have that real summer tomato taste in there.
Funnily enough, I was talking with some colleagues the other day about podcasts and how I am not a fan. I work with two Millennials who listen to podcasts all the time and like it when they are driving. I would rather read the info than listen to a podcast. I often just read the transcript of informational YouTube videos and I often prefer to drive long distances with nothing on at all. It's one of the few times in civilized life that you can find relative silence. This means I'm old since my preferred media is not a podcast, Instagram or tik Tok, but not so old that I prefer a hard copy newspaper - I do prefer to read the news online.
Tater tots might be my favorite form of potato, along with hashbrowns, which, come to think of it, are basically long, stringy tater tots. I'm glad you're familiar with Napoleon Dynamite. I love that movie for many reasons, but most of all for its cool depiction of un-coolness.
DeleteI'm not a podcast guy either--except for Chef G's podcast of course. I've listened to parts of a few, but only once did I make it beyond fifteen minutes. And that was only because I was on a road trip in a car with my son, who likes them.
OLD GUY ALERT: I still get the big, beautiful, inky Minneapolis Star-Tribune newspaper delivered to my driveway daily. I kind of get the same rush from unfolding those huge pages as I used to get from unwrapping and opening a brand new record album back in the 1970's.