The prize is announced
at the end of this post.
It’s possible that I
am a reincarnated cryptographer from WWII. Possible, maybe even probable. How
else to explain being the only one in my family who does crossword puzzles and
other word games and whose favorite Christmas and wedding gifts were
dictionaries?
Oh, I hear you!
Jumping to conclusions again, are we? Huh! Being able to go beyond, to imagine,
to try out alternatives, those characteristics defined the cryptographers who
saved the world back then. I’m proud to claim that I (might) have been one of
their company.
I think my past life
explains, too, my fascination with tweeting recipes and cooking tips. I LOVE
these little mini-puzzles. I bought Maureen Evans book of recipe tweets as much
for the little word puzzles as the actual recipes I could make—It is unique
among my cookbook collection. She was the first to tweet recipes, and now many
of us do. Still, she reins as the “queen of tweats”.
Of course, the rules
are, well, rules. Twitter will not (I know because I tried to circumvent their
rules by re-writing the Twitter program code after I broke into their system
one weekend) let you use more than 140 characters. That includes spacing and
punctuation! OMG! Who chose 140??? Why not 125 or 150? It was probably
somebody’s IQ or something like that.
Still, one can tweet
recipes. I do very often @Good2Tweat. I’m going to let you try it, too. I’ll tweet the best one left in
comments here by midnight, MST, January
12th. Of course, I will give you credit! You can be a “tweat king/queen for
a day”, too.
First, the recipe has
to be written clearly enough that I could follow it. You can get creative with
spacing (2 cups can be 2c). If you don’t have space enough for ending punctuation,
capitalize the next word to signal ending punctuation without having to use it.
Abbreviate common cooking and food words (e.g., “evoo” for “extra virgin olive
oil”, “t” for “teaspoon”, “T” for “tablespoon”, and “mx” for “mix”, “H2O” for
“water”, etc).
While I occasionally
cut a recipe in two and tweet it in parts, I only do that for ones with a
filling and base. This is not the case here. One tweet for this recipe.
The recipe you are to
tweet is for the Food Holiday, National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day, on January
14th. My BFF, Pattycakes, makes the BEST Reuben sandwich,
but she uses corned beef not pastrami. You can choose either one for your
tweeted recipe entry.
Pattycake’s Reuben Sandwich
2 slices rye bread, seedless
1 slice Swiss cheese
6 thin slices pastrami (or
corned beef)
3 tablespoons sauerkraut,
well-drained
1-2 tablespoons sour cream
butter to spread on bread
for grilling
On one slice of rye bread
layer Swiss cheese slice, pastrami (or corned beef), and sauerkraut. Put sour
cream on one side of second rye slice. Put sour cream side down on top of other
ingredients and press together. Spread butter on both sides of the bread,
grilled-cheese style, and grill the sandwich until brown on both sides.
If yours is the
winning tweet recipe, I will gift you a copy of my new culinary mystery, Mission Impastable. Now that’s worth
trying for, isn’t it? I reserve the right to include other submitted tweats
that day, too, if they are several good ones!
Give it a go!
