Ron Swanson presents Pawnee Today

How Ron avoids a hangover after drinking too much whiskey: cook a large flank steak panfried in salted butter. Eat that and put on a pair of wet socks and go to sleep.

Ron's other interests: woodworking, novels about tall ships, meat.

Any dog under 50 pounds is a cat and cats are pointless.

Grapes of Wrath, chocolate chip ice-cream and Johnny Cash.

Don't trust big banks or small banks. Banks are Ponzi schemes run by morons.

Your house isn't haunted, you're lonely.

Three movies that Ron has seen: Bridge on the River Kwai, Patton and Herbie Fully Loaded.

* Quotes taken from from Parks and Recreation *

The Makanai

Food featured in The Makanai - Cooking for the Maiko House

~ Nabekko Dango

Rice flour dumplings in red bean soup.

~ Yaki Imo

Baked sweet potato.

~ Cold somen noodles.

~ Japanese Tomato Curry.

~ Oyakodon

Chicken and egg rice bowl.

~ Onigiri

Japanese rice balls.

~ Japanese breakfast

Steamed rice, miso soup, protein, pickles and other side dishes.

~ Umeboshi

Japanese pickled plums.

~ Pan pudding

Japanese milk and bread pudding.

~ Madelaines in mini tart form

~ Agebitashi

Stewed eggplant (aubergine).

~ Tempura mushrooms, lotus root and sweet potatoes.

~ Korroke

Japanese croquettes.

~ Karaage

Japanese fried chicken.

~ White cream stew.

~ Amazake

Traditional sweet Japanese drink made with fermented rice.

~ Fruit Sando

Japanese fruit sandwich.

~ Ozoni

Japanese new year mochi soup.

~ Kakimochi

Rice crackers.

Kyoto-style kitsune udon.

~ Kaki Fry

Fried oyster.

~ Tonjiru

Pork and vegetable miso soup.

~ Shokupan Crust rusks.

~ Tamago Sando

Egg sandwich.

Ron Swanson vs Food

~ Ron's reaction when served a salad at a wedding reception: Is a gerbil marrying a rabbit?

~ According to Ron, Indianapolis is home to Charles Mulligan's Steakhouse. The best damn steakhouse in the whole damn state.

~ Dear Frozen Yoghurt, you are the celery of desserts. Be ice-cream or nothing. Zero stars.

~ Veganism is the result of a morally corrupt mind. Reconsider your life.

~ What a turkey burger should have consisted of: a fried turkey leg inside a grilled hamburger.

~ Q: Do you have a history of mental illness in your family?

A: I have an uncle who does yoga.

~ Clear alcohol are for rich women on diets.

~ Turkey can never beat cow.

~ There is one thing I hate more than lying: skimmed milk. Which is water lying about being milk.

~ Bacon wrapped shrimp: Ron's number 1 favourite food wrapped around his number 3 favourite food.

~ You had me at meat tornado.

* Information taken from various episodes of 'Parks and Recreation' *