Tastes So Good - Supernatural's "The Pissed Off Sandwich" Cookbook, Part Two
Some years ago some dedicated fans of Supernatural put together a cookbook to be sold for charity. It was named after the moment in Season 7, Episode 9, when Dean's turducken sandwich starts to ooze green. "I think you pissed off my sandwich" is Dean's immortal line.
I was asked to provide recipes. They had to tie into actual dialogue from the show John Winchester's recipe for "Kitchen Sink Stew" in Part Two. I'll have you know that making this stew entailed a lot of disgusting stuff, like stewed Slim Jims and beef jerky. Because I am a dedicated fan!!
JOHN WINCHESTER’S KITCHEN SINK STEW
Note: This is taken from John Winchester’s journal. It has been left unedited.
STARTING OUT
Stew: only way to get vegetables down Dean’s gullet. Constipated Dean is hell to live with. Sammy loves vegetables. He’s a freak. And not just because he has demon blood.
JOHN WINCHESTER’S TIPS:
You need a stove. Tried making this on a hot plate but it took three days and set the motel room on fire. First ingredients, then cooking directions, then toppings and/or stuff on the side.
1. BASICS
2 lbs boneless beef chuck roast cut into medium-sized pieces
4 tablespoons of butter /14 diner packets
2 large onions, peeled and chopped up
2 tablespoons flour. Or Bisquick
1 teaspoon sugar (skip sugar if using Bisquik)/ 2 Domino sugar packets
2 cups beer. If you like dark beer, something like Negra Modelo. My favorite is Budweiser. Or whatever’s on sale at the gas station. Guinness is a wuss beer and it costs too much.
2 beef bouillon cubes in 1 1/2 cup water.
2. SEASONINGS:
Salt and pepper
Worcestershire sauce
Tabasco sauce
Parsley if you’ve got it
Bay leaf if you’ve got it
JOHN WINCHESTER’S TIPS:
Beef jerky or Slim Jims adds a nice flavor. NO GUMMI WORMS, no matter how much Dean begs.
3. VEGETABLES:
You can put anything in this stew. Mix and match:
1 big turnip, cut into big pieces
4 carrots, peeled, cut into chunks
4 potatoes, peeled, cut into chunks
2 green peppers, chopped up
2 cups lima beans
One big can diced tomatoes
2 cups okra
Canned corn
2 cups string beans
2 cups peas
2 boxes frozen spinach
2 boxes frozen mixed vegetables
What the hell are parsnips?
4. DIRECTIONS:
Brown beef with butter, salt and pepper. If you can't get butter, steal a bottle of Wal-Mart oil, any kind. Not motor oil!
Add flour and stir until beef is coated and browned.
Add Worcestershire sauce—a couple of good shakes.
Add sugar. Add onions. Stir around until the onions are soft.
Add beer and beef broth. Give it a good stir.
Add vegetables. Stir it.
Remember to give it a stir!
Cook for 2 hours, covered. If it looks too dry add water, stock, or beer (of course).
5. TOPPINGS:
Crumbled Doritos or B-B-Q potato chips
Pretzels
Party mix – the salty kind, not the sweet kind
Beef jerky
Crispy Chinese noodles from these cheapo restaurants. If you want to grab a couple of soy sauce packets and add that in to the stew, be my guest.
JOHN WINCHESTER’S TIPS:
If no potatoes, use rice, around 2 cups. Makes one big chunk of stuff. Boys didn’t much like it: made them eat anyway.
No potatoes or rice, a couple of boxes of mac and cheese without the cheese works. Save the cheese for something else, like dip. If you have company. We don’t. We sprinkle it on cereal.
NO SALAD!!
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Prompt 101
The Fentons have created a machine! A wonderful machine that will reveal a ghost’s true form! So that everyone will see their trickery! They’ll see that the monsters they really are!
Now, to know what all went wrong, one would have to know some things about the ghost zone, and more specifically the area the Fentons had managed to punch through to.
For one, ghosts do not age like humans. Oh they might take a form similar to that of their death, which may appear as an adult or teen or something similar, but with how they can only die by the complete destruction of their core, theoretically a ghost could live forever once formed.
In fact, the equivalent of eighteen years for a ghost was one-hundred realms-years dead. And those years don’t always sync up with the years of the living world that one might open a door into. Thankfully, the Fenton’s world, being one of those synced closer to the Realms, only had a time dilation of a few seconds.
That being said, the area their portal had ripped into was incredibly rich in ectoplasm. And areas like that, were where newborn ghosts were formed and arrived. A ghost daycare of sorts, almost akin to a toddler area of the zone.
Which meant that when they shoot the Phantom-menace and other pesky ghosts to revert them into their true form, it isn’t exactly monsters that appear. Instead, there are now several ghost toddlers- or in the phantom-trio’s case literal babies- flying around. Very unhappy ghost toddlers.
What a horrible time for the Justice League to arrive. Though perhaps some would say it was actually perfect timing.
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I had a reuben sandwich so monumentally disappointing, so insulting, at a working lunch last week, that tonight, I was forced to make two reubens as big as my face to wipe that one off the books.
Malice at two grocery stores looking for the right creamed horseradish for building a good Russian dressing. Pissed off procurement of pumpernickel of the proper softness. Raiding the basement shelves for home canned sauerkraut.
It took most of a week to come together, but I have to say, spite reubens are fucking delicious. With some tomato, melon, and chick pea salad... lime mint vinaigrette.
Serve me a shitty, dry-ass, burnt reuben on caraway rye? Go shit in your hat.
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Something to think about
Hamnet:
Led an unprovoked (technically we don't know if that is true, but let's assume) attack against the rats in the garden
Used an unfair, war crime-coded tactic to win
Killed many innocents with it
= Narratively presented in a good light, has the background of his war crime told and explained (actually going too far because it comes across as though Solovet's abuse and involvement are supposed to excuse it, which it does not. Hamnet was an adult who is responsible for his actions; your tragic backstory is tragic but it does not excuse your war crimes).
Also, not to mention, judged Gregor, a child, for an inborn talent he has, conveying that it makes him a bad person. Either way, he is supposed to be sympathetic and everyone buys it.
Sandwich:
Led an unprovoked (technically we don't know if that is true, but let's assume) attack against the diggers
Used an unfair, war crime-coded tactic to win
Killed many innocents with it
= Narratively presented in a bad light, has nothing about the background or circumstances of his war crime explained (we get like, what, one line from Vikus?), and yet that one line immediately makes him without a doubt or question a horrible, evil person and even an unreliable prophet (because your moral alignment absolutely is connected to the validity of your prophetic abilities, yes).
Also, not to mention, he is not responsible for the tragedies he's seen, and very likely only tried to help the Regalians and Gregor deal with them by trying to write his visions down and giving Gregor his sword. Either way, he's supposed to be unsympathetic and everyone buys it.
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