Angel's Brunch

From the "Extra Special" section of the new Folk & Good Cookin' cookbook comes this recipe, which I submitted to the Red Rock cookbook committee IN JEST! and with reference to last year's festival. Imagine my surprise and bemusement on seeing it printed up, right between Jory Nash's burrito and Noah Zacharin's tuna salad. Eww, that sounds gross. Anyway, good luck cooking this up.

Angel's Brunch

Ingredients: Jamieson's Irish Whiskey; Colt Cigar

Get up, Saturday AM, too late for breakfast and too tired for lunch. Stumble out of tent. Stumble back into tent in search of nourishment. Discover remains of 26er of Jamieson's. Open, tilt, swallow, holler "WHOOOO!"

Discover Colt cigar in crumpled pack. Straighten, light, inhale.

Find guitar. (Note: may not be in tent.)

Wander over to main stage, practicing. Play Ian Tamblyn's "The Angel's Share." Explain that it's all about whiskey. The song, that is.

Lather, rinse, repeat!

Prevent burnout with...

When I was in Halifax last fall for Rendez-Vous Folk, I stayed with two friends of mine, one of whom is a naturopath.

She gave me some medicine to keep my adrenal glands intact while I adjust my lifestyle.

On one side, the label says, in English and French, "Glycerine Macerate," which is intriguing. It makes it sound like you need to chew it, which isn't true. It's liquid. You take it with a wee medicine spoon.

The other side looks like this:

gemmo

RIBES

NIGRUM

gemmae

bourgeon

knop

Knospe

bud

gemme

It tastes more or less like whiskey. I take it twice a day. So far, so good.