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Toss your line into the sea
find a spot perfect for thee.
Orange shirts and fishing poles
same hair style never got old.
socks with sandals walking through the sand
holding each child hand in hand.
Yankee, poppop, mike and dad
loving father, husband, uncle, and man.
lead a life rod and reel in hand.
Here comes hop-a-long
walking down the street
Gaining respect from everyone he meets
The witty man makes his jokes
Lets all of us fall for his hoax
Spitting a mouth full of corn at mom
Which she took so cool and calm
Moving his dentures to make us laugh
Even the Covenant Hospice Staff
Playing cards, poker, and other games
even at horse shoes he’d put us all to shame.
Jack of all trades, master of none
he’d always stop before the job was done
Always trying to find his tools
and yelling at the boys for ignoring his rules.
Always looking at jewelry and coins
making all of us kids join.
Ivory soap for his hair
Taking us to the Mother Caprini fair
Lottery tickets he would need
and watching wrestling loving when they’d bleed
His two favourite places were thrift stores
and fishing along side the shore.
Lets not forget his love of food
pushing everyone even when they’re not in the mood.
Chicken cacciatore and chicken cordon blue
he would always make it however far and few
bringing home entenmann’s eclairs
and making steven so happy when he would share
chichamungas and chimichangas
he never knew the difference but loved them just the same
calling each one by the other name
Speaking of wrong names he never got our right
I was Steven, Robert, Brianna
that was something i could never fight.
It wasn’t me, not I, I don’t know
really did live here
Raising his voice to instill fear.
Sneaky snake always got us
Made us laugh without a fuss
Making Bobby sleep on a rock
He was a father to all kids on the block
Back in 2000 Dani and I would put on a fashion show
He would announce our moves blow by blow
Enjoy hunting, old man in the woods so booming
Stay away from bears, dear dad they’re always looming
Sail on Daddy, you won’t need your cane
for you don’t have any more pain.
What you will need.
2 cups All purpose Flour
3 tbsp Unsalted Butter
2 tbsp White Sugar
2 tsp Baking Powder
1/3 cup Whole Milk (I used more than this, almost 2/3rd of a cup)
a pinch of salt
Coarse Salt or Salt Flakes
1 Egg – beaten
Put Flour into bowl, then add the Unsalted Butter, (I cut the butter into tiny pieces to work with it easier). Add Sugar, Baking Powder and Salt and mix together. It will still look like flour. Maybe a bit crumb-like. Add Milk slowly till all the ingredients are wet. Do not add all the milk at once. You have to make sure that the dough is not too sticky, but also not too dry. If you need more milk, you can add another drop. I used a teaspoon to put a little bit in at a time, but like I said I used more than 1/3 cup of milk. Once the dough is formed you do not have to let it rest, you can work with it straight away since there is no yeast.
Divide the dough into smaller balls. Roll out each ball into a long snake, or whatever shape you’d like. Shape and put onto prepared baking sheet. Once you have made all your pretzels, brush them with the egg (egg wash) and sprinkle with coarse salt or salt flakes.
Bake in preheated oven at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes (depending on size of your pretzels) – they should be nice and golden on the top.
Serve warm.
You can serve them as is or with a delicious dipping sauce. I loved it with Honey. It made the pretzels taste like Whataburger’s Honey-Buttered Chicken Biscuit without the chicken…. hmm, gives me another idea for a recipe. My mother liked the pretzels with cheese, and my brother with mustard. The options are endless.
**ALSO, try adding flavors to the pretzels before you cook them. We have tried Parmasan cheese, garlic and herbs, extra butter and salt, even the popcorn flavors that they give you at the movies.
“Sometimes walking away from things is the best thing, but you can’t run away from them.”
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