Gord, as I read your recipe for the mix, I thought to myself, "I'll bet Gord makes a mean chocolate chip cookie, too."
Am I right????
All Skippable Drivel, unless you're interested.
In a roundabout way, yes . . . . BUT, the answer is long, verbose, and repetitive, which are qualities I possess in abundance, as you've probably noticed.
I've explained before, my mom was a superb, trained cook, who often wrote food columns in the Vancouver Sun newspaper, back in the 1950s. Both me and my sister flourished under her guiding hand, and took opposite directions.
I developed serious knife skills, and am very good at specialty dishes and gourmet fare. I have no talent at all in the pastry skills, and don't really have a sweet tooth. I bake flatbreads and oatcakes to garnish, and that's about it. But my sister does indeed have a sweet tooth, and excels at pastries, which she gobbles up like my buddy Mike gobbles up Buttered Rum tobaccos, which I'm not really fond of.
So, she supplies me with the type of cookies and so on that I eat occasionally, and yesss, chocolate chip/coconut are about my faves, and I supply her with fish, game and other stuff "out there" that she cans, freezes and otherwise processes and uses. I also smoke, freeze and cure very well, too. So we have an excellent trading relationship, and as she only lives a couple of miles from me, a functional one, too.
As both an academic and a practicing professional violinist and pianist (retired but still teaching) I'm extremely methodical in what I do. Goes with the territory. I'm not OCD, autistic, Asperger's, or any other strange, novel and current disease (none were common or recognized until I was about 30), and I trained and disciplined myself in the manner of a professional athlete. Same processes, just different venues. Raw talent and instinct is just the start, I'm afraid.
This discipline has led me into many investigations, humbly he said, and being a well known teacher and academic has also made me a good student, as well.
I've been experimental in my pipe and cigar smoking, too, as you noticed..
Beginning with an often inevitable disease of old age, eczema, I quickly learned that Vitamin N is our friend, and got into the pipe/cigar world as a rank beginner about 2 years ago. A known antivenin, Vitamin N, I quickly noted, comes out in most of my friends in fishing trips to mosquito infested lakes. It works. Every single cell in your body has an N receptor for this purpose. Documentation available online for N.
That's about it - except to note that my sister, a passionate anti-smoker, uses N patches. She knows, as do most congnoscenti on the forum.
Remember, M. C, you DID ask.
And thank you for doing so.
Cheers,
Gord
