Saturday, October 27, 2012

The Three Cook-a-tears or Culinary Arts in the Booher Home

                                                                  HOT!!!!! Sauce!
 Yesterday evening I (Emily) was baking cookies with the help of Clancy, Clara, and Ruth,when Clancy came up with the brilliant idea of making hot sauce as a surprise for Mama and Myles. I thought that it would keep them from picking in my dough, but little did I know what would happen later.:o
 They put locotos (Bolivian hot peppers that are almost as hot as habeneros), salt, and because they thought that it might not be spicy enough they put store bought hot sauce in as well. Clancy stirred it together, then gave it to Ruth  to try. How nice of you Clancy! Ruth sat down at the table and took a small amount. She came running into the kitchen doing a little dance and begging for water. I gave her some yogurt, and soon she was back to normal.

The Hot Sauce King with his two Victims

  Clara was the next person to try it, and somehow she succeeded in getting some on her lips. Bad idea! She came running into the kitchen with her tongue hanging out of her mouth and tears streaming down her cheeks saying,"Mama I feel like someone punched me on my lips and my mouth is burning!" Mama put yogurt on her lips, but even that didn't help! She was still suffering from side effects two hours later! She put a frozen chunk of butter on her lips to stop the burning,and that helped quite a bit.
Poor Clara!

  Ruth decided she was ready for another try, only this time she dipped her finger in the sauce and then touched her eye! How intelligent! She was screaming her head off! By now Mama was about to give Clancy the worst whipping of his life. Mama washed it off with Uncle Dwight's awesome soap and Ruth was soon back to normal.
 Clancy, the Cook-a-Tear-in-chief, never even touched the stuff! Stinker! He just laughed when the little girls came in sobbing.:0 He takes after his dad! I have long ago learned to NEVER taste any of Clancy's experiments (ever since he put B.B.'s in the spaghetti).;)The closest I got to it was to smell it, and it even smelled spicy!

The moral of the story is: do not allow your children or younger siblings (I hope I'm not giving them any ideas...) to make hot sauce without supervision. If they do, do not taste it, or you might look like this........


11 comments:

  1. You guys are hilarious!!
    The first picture says it all...

    We miss you all so much! Looking forward to more posts, Emily.

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    1. Glad you enjoyed the post Lauren!Be sure to follow the advice or you might have another fiasco on your hands!
      We miss you too!
      Emily Jo

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  2. Clara and Ruth, I am surprised that you allowed Clancy to dupe you into being his guinea pigs! Always have him taste his concoctions first! Emily, you are right about him being like his dad! I'll never forget the time our family played a show at the annual banquet for the Oregon Livestock Association, back in the early 90's. There were really cute table decorations with those tiny little red peppers taking center stage. Rudi must have touched one to his lips and found out they were exceedingly hot. He could hardly wait to get his youngest siblings to try them! When they backed off, he rubbed one on their lips! I remember them being in pain, but I can't remember what we did about it! Don't get any ideas now, Clancy! :)

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  3. Correction: Actually, this event must have taken place in the mid-80's, because Rudi was around 12 or 13. How the years go by! And how the Lord changes our hearts and gives us His desires! Rudi is such a wonderful husband to Carla, and wise and loving Daddy to six beautiful children! Rudi, it's hard to believe you'll be 41 in a couple of weeks. Love to all!

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    1. That's what I was thinking when I wrote the story!:)
      It reminded me of the story's Uncle Justin and Uncle Ned and you told me!

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  4. it's "locoto" with an L and yes they are way spicy. I don't think I ever even tasted them! I'm a big baby though I don't even eat Jalapenos!

    looks like the kids are having a blast!

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    1. Thanks for telling me what the peppers real name is!
      Wikipedia said that they were rocotos.I guess I won't trust Wikipedia anymore!

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    2. Haha you never know with wikipedia! I also know how hard it is to figure out exactly what Bolivians are saying let alone how to spell it!

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  5. Poor little girls:(
    Our friends dog ate a hot pepper and after her whole mouth was huge and swollen! Did you get to make your cookies Emily without them picking in it?? Keep the posts coming!

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    1. They picked anyway.:( Who could resist my delicious cookie dough?
      Emily:)

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  6. Clancy always has had a knack for adding spice to life! :) I am glad Ruth and Clara survived. Thanks for sharing, Emily! Much love to each of you! Chow!

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