Jeff,
We, the coven, are angst ridden over our selfishness with regard to the special sauce recipe. We wonder, (by we I mean the coven, and I am writing coven lower case because we have been thinking that perhaps the upper case C implied something not too nice about the coven, perhaps conveyed an elitist mentality that we, the coven would never wish to convey to anybody if indeed we wished to convey anything,) whether we should share the secret sauce recipe and by sharing free ourselves of the burden of ownership. I believe it was Lord Acton who said "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." We don't want to be corrupt Jeff, Janice doesn't want to be corrupt, or eltitist, or something.
Anyway, the coven, lower case now, has done a great deal of soul searching, (we are very interested in soul food btw, do you like soul food Jeff? Or maybe you prefer oriental food, the cuisine of our Asian brothers and sisters, who are very snappy dressers and had much higher scores than I did at Berkeley) and we have decided we should share the coven secrets with all, even men, who, I must admit, we thought previously only fit for the Barbacoa.
I remember when I went to Ky for a family reunion, all the women in the family went into the kitchen after dinner to clean the dishes and talk about "women things" and I thought gee, I'm glad I live I California where I can stay in the dining room and talk about football with our guests or family or whatever while my husband washes the dishes. So it is really hard for me, a Californian, born and raised to admit that maybe men should be able to be more than barbacoa meat and be initiated into the secrets of the coven.
So I will tell you the first five ingredients and I hope Penni and Janice will tell you the last ten. Each of us has a seperate super secret piece of paper on which we keep our ingredients and they are known only to ourselves, until today, of course, because now I am sharing them with you. Are you ready?
Very large fresh cucumbers
Oysters
Heinz 57 Catsup
Gingseng
Tofu |
