I’m Flying

Hello Funny One here. I didn’t do any writing today but I might do some tomorrow. I’ve done another Funny One cartoon. Here it is. Hope you like it.

#95 Titanic – Ship Of Dreams Part 19

Me and Mr Funny had lunch, I showed him my pictures that I’d drawn, we had dinner and went to the front of the ship for a kiss. The food we were having at the dinner picture is supposed to be Peaches in Chartreuse Jelly. I found a recipe for it. Here it is.

Peaches in Chartreuse Jelly

Ingredients:
3 large cling stone peaches
4 cups water
2 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 cinnamon stick
3 whole cloves
Fresh lemon balm leaves or edible flowers

Chartreuse Jelly:
5 teaspoons of powdered flavorless gelatin or approximately 5 teaspoons of vegeline
2 cups water
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 cup Chartreuse

Directions:
1.Chartreuse Jelly:
Dissolve the gelatin or vegeline in 1 cup of water. In a small pot, bring the remaining cup to a boil. Then add the sugar and stir until it is completely dissolved. Remove from heat and allow it to cool for about 20 minutes. Add the Chartreuse and the gelatin or vegeline and stir to combine. Pour into a 9 x 13 inch glass baking dish lined with waxed paper; refrigerate until completely set.

2. Meanwhile, submerge the peaches in a large pot of boiling water for about 30 seconds, then move them to ice water. Slip off the skins, cut them in half and gently remove the stones.

3. In a large pot, mix the water and sugar, cook over medium heat stirring gently until sugar is dissolved. Bring to a boil and cook for one minute or until syrup is clear. Add some lemon juice, cinnamon stick and cloves.

4. Add the prepared peaches making sure they are entirely submerged, cut a piece of parchment that is slightly smaller than the pot and place over the top of the peaches to make sure they remain submerged.

5.Bring the syrup to a boil and lower the heat to medium-low and poach the peaches gently for 6 minutes or until soft (they should be easy to cut into with a spoon). Allow the peaches to cool in the syrup. This can be stored for 24 hours in the refrigerator.

6.To serve, turn out the jelly onto a cutting board and cut half into even little squares, the remaining half should be cut into decorative shapes using a cookie cutter. Plate the cut squares onto the centre of a flat plate, arranging the jelly shapes around the edges. Slice peaches from one end to almost the other, and spread it out onto a bed of jelly. Garnish with edible flowers or lemon balm leaves.

Well I’ll finish here for now.

Yo Ho Ho and a Box of Cookies!!!

Hello, Funny one here. My state for today is Maryland. I’m with an elephant at the Lexington Market. Join them for one of Baltimore’s most interesting traditions, “Lunch with the Elephants.” The elephants are greeted by many adoring fans, live music and circus clowns. When they arrive, they are treated to the world’s largest stand up vegetarian buffet. They eat 1100 oranges, 700 bananas, 1000 apples, 400 pears, 500 heads of lettuce and 500 carrots. Baltimore is the only city in the United States to host this event on a yearly basis.

What about places for people to eat? There’s some interesting restaurants to go and eat. Sabatino’s Italian restaurant. What would I order? For starters, fried mozzarella, garlic bread and  fresh mozzarella with tomatoes. For the main meal, a fettuccine alfredo which is homemade fettuccine noodles served in their famous butter, cream and cheese sauce.  And for dessert I would have the tiramisu. To drink, I would have Chianti. Another cool place is One-Eyed Mike which is a pirate themed restaurant. What would I order? The Baked Brie, which is warm baked brie topped with oven-roasted almonds and a raspberry Melba sauce and the pecan-encrusted salmon. It’s an eight ounce salmon filet encrusted with pecans and finished with a maple glaze, served over wild rice and the vegetable of the day. What would I drink? They don’t have Chianti, so I would probably have the Fourteen Hands Merlot. But being a pirate themed restaurant, maybe they should serve rum. Still on food, there is a shop that sells yummy cookies, “Bundles of Cookies”.  They even have yummy whoopie pies. Mmmmm whoopie pies.

Back to pirates, there is the Urban Pirates. They let you go on the pirate ship with your own grog and you can act like a pirate!  Also staying with boats, there is the “Historic Ships In Baltimore” The USS Torsk looks super cool! It’s one of two tench class submarines that are still located in the United States. It has the nickname “Galloping Ghost of the Japanese Coast.” In 1945, the Torsk made two war patrols off Japan, sinking one cargo vessel and two coastal defense frigates. The latter of these, torpedoed on 14 August 1945 and was the last enemy ship sunk by the U.S. Navy in World War II.

Other fun places to go are the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. It’s home to the nation’s largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the Universe. The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is where you can find out about what medicines they used during the Civil War. Plus there is The Fire Museum of Maryland, which is where they have the third largest collection on display of any fire museum in the world. Among the collection are 42 antique fire apparatus, memorabilia, fire-fighting equipment, models, and photographs.