Trudy in Illinois

Well, tis the season for chili. I really enjoy making and eating this dish. Mine is rather mild compared to others, especially my girlfriend Tessa. She is an interesting person who also has a very unusual accent. She, also, has a lot of trouble with spelling. So, joining the accent and spelling challenge, you have a mystery when reading something she’s written. I asked her for her recipe of chili which is delicious. What a reading adventure that was. Here it is just as she wrote it:
1 pund park; 1 pund beef. Bran this in some lite wait erl. Take aut and set acside. Putt in 10 clooves of smushed gaelic, 1 rally bigg ornyun chapped up all lattle and frii it real goot.. Stirr it all the time til its all goot. Then add some selt, perppa, oraygoneo, coumadin, and chili species. Stir this all up. Add some maters and smush them up in the pan. Add 1 big can a chikken breath. Stir this all up. Putt in 2 big cans a daak red beans. Stir this all up. Putt a lid on the pot and slow cook it oil day. Muck some kern brad with sharp yeller cheese in it. Pour this on the top a the chili in the pot. Putt the lid on and wait til the brad is done. DO NOT STIR THIS ET ALL!!! Serve in a warm bawl with a lip on it. Enjoy.

I hope you all can read this and get as much a chuckle out of it as I did. It is real tasty, too. The coumadin left me reeling with laughter. I remember when Daddy had to start taking that drug. Being the chemist he was coupled with his character, his sense of humor shined through. Mother was all concerned about the correct amount he was to take. He ran out of the pills one day; she got very concerned. His reply to her fretting was, “Oh, Mamie, just sprinkle 1 teaspoon of DeCon on my oatmeal and that will take care of it. Make the measurement level; no heaping, that’s too much.” Mother was horrified and Daddy couldn’t stop laughing.