Ah, A sweet romantic story from the very early forties.

A couple, a boy and girl, were completely enamored with each other. It was June. The weather was perfect and the days were getting lovelier and lovelier and the boy and girl were wonderfully in full romantic lust.

They were supposed to be attending classes at their respective colleges; however, they figured why waste time and a lovely day by listening to dust dry pedagogues in stuffy lecture halls.

Before their eyes flashed a vision of a picnic of cheese, crusty bread and good wine consumed in a sylvan setting. Now, where to go? The answer in those days was Rock Creek Park in the center of Washington, DC. So they drove off into the heart of the park, pulled the car up, took the bag of goodies and climbed up the hill side into what they thought was a remote spot and sat down on the trail, ate the lunch, and downed the wine.

A glow settled over them, over the trail, over the world and soon the two of them were locked in a semi chaste embrace. The rest of the world faded away until suddenly they heard a sound, looked up and a horse was thundering down on them and the rider was hollering at them.

The rider did the only thing he could do and that was to make the horse jump over then, shocking them from the semi chaste euphoric state they had been in, back to a completely chaste and non euphoric condition.

There is nothing like looking up into the belly of a huge animal with thrashing legs and hooves to ruin a fine luncheon.

He married her later on.

We blamed the whole thing on buying the wrong cheese!

I did something the other day that had a less shocking climax.

I sliced up a green pepper and a good bit of a vidalia onion. Then I cut a flank steak in half then into strips and cut them in half. I put the onion and green pepper in a microwave proof dish, covered it and popped it into the microwave.

In the meantime, I had heated up a skillet with olive oil in it, just enough to put a film over the pan. While that was warming up over a medium high heat, I cooked the onion and pepper for four minutes, until they were soft.

I dumped the flank steak in the heated pan and seasoned it with salt, pepper and garlic. I stirred it and doused the whole pan with Teriyaki sauce.

When the meat was almost all brown, I dumped in the peppers and onion and kept stirring until the veggies had cooked down somewhat and the steak was browned but not over cooked.

I pulled it from the stove and tossed it with cooked and buttered medium egg noodles. Serve with a green salad.

Believe me, it was better than having a horse jump over you!

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