Sunday afternoon, Autumn Years Rest Home. The men were watching the football game. The women were dozing off, when Wolf stood up and said, “Hey girls, Let’s play chopped.”
“You mean the cooking show? That chopped?”
“Yes! Minnie, Gloria and Mary Cat, get ready. I am getting 3 mystery baskets ready and we will see what you can come up with.”
The girls opened their baskets. Wolf told them they had 30 minutes to come up with an appetizer. The mystery ingredients: chocolate covered raisins, red wine, canned tuna and rutabagas.
Minnie quickly opened the can of tuna and left it on the counter. She was munching on the raisins, trying to peel the waxy rutabaga and had a few glasses of wine to settle her nerves.
Mary Cat didn’t know what a rutabaga was, so she grabbed a glass of wine and went to the computer to do some research.
Gloria figured she better boil the hell out of the baga, so she threw the whole thing in water, while she devoured half the chocolate raisins.
“15 minutes to go girls.”
Max, the resident cat, smelled Minnie’s tuna and sneaked up on the counter and ate it. Minnie, who never drinks, was loaded on 2 glasses of wine. Gloria was standing by the boiling pot watching the rutabaga do absolutely nothing. Mary Cat couldn’t spell rutabaga so she ended up checking her face book.
“5 minutes! Get plated, girls.”
On Minnie’s plate: 6 raisins, soaked in tuna oil, raw sliced rutabagas and a glass of wine.
Gloria: One giant rutabaga, waxy and uncooked, but hot. She said she ran out of time.
Mary Cat never did show up for the plating.
“None of you passed! This is an abomination. I will give you one more chance!”
In the mystery baskets: Crisco, heavy cream, chicken thighs and pecans.
“Now that’s more like it!!”, the girls said.
The girls did remarkably well., coming up with amazing Southern Fried dishes.
Wolf told the girls she was impressed. How come they did so well this time?
“We never miss a Paula Deen show.”
Wolf
