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HELLO!

Welcome to the first volume of Canteen Café. We
compiled this zine to give a voice to the voiceless within the
Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). Although this is mainly filled
with recipes, we hope future volumes will have more stories of
men and women thriving despite their circumstances. In order
for this to be a true “Café” we need to be able to sit down and
share our experiences. So for our next volume, we are seeking
stories of what “Liberation” means to you. We still need
recipes tool If you have already submitted a recipe that you
don't see In this volume, it may be in the next due to space
limitations.

Please add Wiprisonrecipes@gmail.com and send in
your recipes and stories so we can print the next volume.
Remember, f you want to have your name printed, you must
state this in your email, otherwise it will be marked
anonymous.

1 would like to thank “The Info Bridge,” “The
Community” “IWW/IWOC" and “Black and Pink MKE” for their
help in putting out the word that we wanted recipes and
stories.

1 would also like to thank Diana W. for typesetting;
Communication Press for helping with printing and
distribution; and especially Kayla K. for her inspiration in
‘making this zine possible.

n solidarity,
Kayla K. Josh W.
Editor Editor
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Bean and Cheese Dip

by: Anonymous.

Ingredients:
2 8oz refried pinto beans
2 30z Jalapeno cheese cups

Directions:

1. Cookrefried beans per package directions.
2. Mixin cheese.

3. Add water to get to dip consistency.

4. Use any type of chip you like.
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Stromboli

by: Chop.

ingredients:
k. (6 each) 8” flour tortillas

5 0z, summer sausage.

6 0z. packs spicy ground beef

16 02, bottle squeeze cheese

4.0z, cheese bars (mozzarella or cheddar)
3.5 oz sliced pepperoni

60z, hot pickle

Optional: 4.5 oz. chicken pouch; BBQ sauce; Jalapenos

Directions:

1. Lay down a plastic bag to cover whole table.

2 Spread squeeze cheese (thin layer) on all the tortillas,

3. Lay % of tortillas in a row overlapping by about 1% inches.
Make a second row the same way overlapping the first row
by about 1% inches. (There should be no holes.)

4. Place pepperoni down the center of your rectangle in 3
rows.

5. Spread BBQ sauce on entire thing (If

6. Spread ground beef evenly over it.

7. Cutup summer sausage, pickle, cheese bars (into small
cubes) and spread over the ground beef.

8. Spread chicken and jalapenos, if using.

9. Starting on one of the long edges, start rolling Stromboli.
Once started lift the bag to continue rolling it up,
tightening the roll as you go.

10. Cutinto servings and microwave to heat up and enjoy.

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Peanut Butter Brownies

by: Anonymous

Ingredients:

1

18 0z.jar peanut butter
13 oz pkg. duplex cookles*

4.8 02. sleeves of graham crackers

20 0z. dark soda (e.g. Pepsi, oot beer, coke)
155 oz. Hershey bars

0.73 0z. hot cocoa packets

Peanut butter cream cookies work too.

Directions:

1

Split open cookies and scrape out filing with a knife and
setaside.

Crush the cookies and graham crackers into a powder; and
putin large bow.

Heat up peanut butter untiltis runny.

Pour peanut butter into the cookie mixture and add 6 oz.
soda, and mix. (Mixture should be wet iike cookie dough
consistency.)

Pat down to form a brownie and put on ice.

Heat up candy bars until melted. Add cream filling from
cookies and hot cocoa packets. (Add a drop of soda, If
necessary, to make frosting.)

Spread frosting on the brownies and set back on ice for at
least 2 hours
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Peanut Brittle (Easy)

by: Anonymous

Ingredients:
1 4.5 oz, bag butterscotch buttons
2 thsp. peanut butter

% 7oz bag peanuts

1 empty rice bag cut open

(Note: This recipe must be done using a small Dodge bowl;
other bowls may melt.)

Directions:

1. Unwrap butterscotch buttons and place in a bowl with the
peanut butter.

2. Putin microwave for 30 seconds. (Watch to make sure it
does not burn)

3. When buttons start to melt, take out and mix.

4. Keep cooking in 10 second intervals until all the
butterscotch is melted.

5. Mixin peanuts and spread on a rice bag. Let cool
completely before eating.
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Peanut Brittle
by: Anonymous

Ingredients:
10 pats butter

1/316 oz, bag of sugar

1/37 oz. bag peanuts

1/318 oz jar peanut butter (optional)
1 Large bowl of ice

Directions:

1. Put butter and sugar in small bowl

2. Microwave for 30 seconds and sti.

(Note: During the cooking process the bowl will get very.
hot and might melt. To avoid this, place cooking bowlin
while stirring each time.)

3. Continue microwaving (30 seconds) and stiring routine
until sugar has melted into the butter and the oil has
separated from the cream of the butter and sugar mix.

4. Drain offoil; st in peanuts and peanut butter (if used).

5. Spread on a surface that won't melt. (You can use the oil
to grease the surface.)

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Banana Cheesecake

by: Anonymous

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Ingredients:

1

10 0z, bag creamer
5 oz. bag of powdered milk
packets Sweetmate

large banana (2 f smaller)

4.8 02. sleeve graham crackers
tsp. sugar

pats of butter

tsp. pancake syrup (or honey)

Directions:

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Crush graham crackers completely and add sugar.
Melt butter and add to mixture with the syrup.
Press into the bottom of a bowl for crust.

In a second bowl mix creamer, milk and sweetener

" together

Mash banana into the mixture. It should be very thick and
stick to a spoon. Add more banana, lttle-by-little, as
necessary.

‘Spoon over crust and put on ice for at least 2 hours.
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FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM

My name is Raymond and I've been down now for 12 years
stil fighting for my freedom...because I have a little ways to go
¥m not able to take a vocational because of my time frame,
‘which is limiting my growth...but | can't let that stop me from
brightening my horizons...locking peaple up Is not the answer
always, kids who was ke myself need someone wha's really
wiling to show them another way of life instead of seling
drugs, robbing people etc...| was a month into my 18 birthday
when | got charged with a murder case. | got 52 year's for this
crime | was blamed for, | wasn't able to call witnesses to tell
where | was when this crime happened. | wasn't able to get
another attorney because the judge said | didn't give a good
a'nuff reason 5o | was forced to trial with someone who didn’t
care about me or my case..smh an its been that “I don't care
attitude” since I've came into the prison system, just like the
other day | got a conduct report for using the phone more
than one time and when you take the proper steps to address
these type of issues you become a target then your time gets
harder. These people (C.0/s) pick with you and talk to you any
kind of way, which is very disrepectful and belitting towards
us..we have no voice even when we try to reach out to be
heard nothing has changed... what about us. The ones who's
willing to help change the old huh??? Its sad and it breaks us
down because people like me deserves a chance..everyone
who's locked up is not the same as they once were and its so
many who pray everyday for another chance..f you don't
have money to get that type of help then you'll die trying..so
every chance I get and whatever | have to do to try to make
that change 'm willing and willtry my best because somebody
someday gon hear my cry, our cry's an see that there's some
go0d people who could make a real change where ! sit and
where I have to be for the time being ) thank you for this
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opportunity and letting me express these few words | hope it
helped.

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Strawberry Lemonade

by: Joshua Wade

Ingredients:

2 tbsp. strawberry preserves
1 stick Wyler's lemonade

Directions:

1. Put strawberry preserves in an empty soda bottle.

2. Add lemonade and 4 oz. hot water.

3. Shake bottle vigorously until there are no chunks of
strawberry preserves.

4. Fill the reminder of the bottle with ice water.

5. Shake and enjoy.

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Honey BBQ Chicken Wraps
by: Anonymous

Ingredients:

4.5 0z. chicken pouches

5 oz. bag BQ chips

8.0z bag of white rice
602 hot pickle

6 pack of flour tortilas

12 oz container jalapenos
402 cheese bar (cheddar)
18 oz bottle BBQ sauce
12 0z bottle of honey
ramen seasoning packet
Aslan sauce

Garlic powder

Mrs. Dash seasoning

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Directions:

1. Pour chicken pouches Into a bowl and season with garlic
powder and Mrs. Dash to taste.

2. Shred chicken using a spork.

3. Finely chop jalapenos and add to chicken. (Also add about
1tbsp. of Juice from jalapenos container.)

4. Pour rice In another bowl and add ramen seasoning
packet, along with some garlic powder and Mrs. Dash, to
taste.

5. Add 20 oz. of hot water to rice mixture and cover. (Let sit
at least 5 min.)

6. Cut up cheese block and pickie Into small cubes.

7. Crush chips inside their bag.

8. Add BBQ sauce and honey to the chicken and stir.

9. Add cooked rice and pickle to the chicken mixture.

10. Scoop mixture into 6 tortila shells.

11. Sprinkle cheese and crushed chips on top. Add Asian
sauce.

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Jailhouse Brick

by: Anonymous

Ingredients:

1 20z bagCheetos
1 3oz Chillflavored Ramen noodles
1 112502 beefstick

1 3oz cheese cup

Directions:

. Cut beef stick into small 1/8"” sices.
2. Crush Cheetos into a dust in the bag.
3. Crush Ramen noodles and add to the Cheetos bag.
4. Mixin the beef stick.
5. Add just enough hot water to get contents in bag moist
(not tog much). Squeeze the bag to mix thoroughly.
6. Close bag and let sit 10 minutes,
7. Cut open bag and spread the cheese on top. Enjoy.

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Misty’s Fried Spicy Rice
by: Anonymous.

Ingredients:

1 8oz pke. white rice

1 15 oz bagjalapeno chips
% 90z bag Hot Fries

150z regular summer
sausage

1 1125 oz. pkg. chili with
beans

% 12 0z. pke. jalapenos

2 soup flavor packets

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Directions:

1. Put rice and soup flavor packets into a bow.

2. Add water to the mixture (not too much), mix, and then
cover and let sit 5 minutes.

3. Stir mixture again and let sit 4-5 minutes.

4. Chop up the sausage and place in a separate bowl. Add

the chill Heat ure up.

5. Chop the jalapenos.

6. Crush the jalapeno chips and hot fries. Then mix them
together.

7. In the chili bowl add the jalapenos and the chip mix. Stir
together.

8. You can either pour this mixture over your rice or mix your
rice into this mixture.

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Trail Mix

By: Anonymous

Ingredients:
1 1002 bag mixed nuts
1 17502 bagD

1 20z bagCheetos

Directions:
1. Slightly crush the Doritos.
2. Mixeverything together and shake vigorously.

Trail Mix
By: Joshua Wade

Ingredients:
4 1oz boxes raisins.

1 10 oz. bag mixed nuts

2 3.50z. bags Tropical mix

1 1.75 oz bag of M&M peanut candies

Directions:
1. Mixallingredients together. Enjoy.

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Layers
by: Anonymous

Ingredients:

1S oz regular summer sausage
1 120z sliced jalapenos

1 6oz hot pickle

1 160z squeeze cheese

1 8oz package white rice

1 4.4 02 Chili flavored red beans and rice

1 1125 oz chill with beans

2 4oz blocks of cheese (cheddar or mozzarella)
4 packets mayonnaise

2 flour tortillas

1 1750z bag Doritos

4tbsp. honey

Directions:

1. Cut up the meat, pickles, jalapenos and block cheese and

set aside in separate containers.

Water down the squeeze cheese so it is pourable.

Put chillin a bowl with a lttle water and heat it up.

Put red beans and rice in another bowl with hot water and

let sit until cooked. (Season as you prefer.)

5. Put white rice in another bowl with hot water and season.

6. Inalarge bowel layer % of white rice, 1/3 of block cheese
and % of the meat.

7. Puta shell over this and then layer rest of rice, 1/3 of block
cheese and rest of meat. Squeeze some cheese on top
and then add another shell.

8. Pour red beans and rice and chili on this layer and squeeze
on some cheese.

9. Top with remaining block cheese, pickles and jalapenos.

10. Add squeeze cheese, mayonnaise, honey, and crushed
Doritos.

11. Heat and eat.

swn

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Sugar-Free Taffy

by: Anonymous

Ingredients:

1 100z, bag creamer

2 packets sugar-free drink mix

3 pats butter

Directions:

1. Dump creamer and butter into a bowl. Add drops of water
untilt becomes 2 thick cake-like batte

2. Microwave in 1 min increments until mixture is light
brown. (Watch closely so it doesn’t boil over.)

3. Mixin drink mixes and microwave 1 more minute. Let

cool.

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~ Resilience ~

‘The fourth edition of The American Heritage College
Dictionary defines, ‘Resilience’, as:
(1) the ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or
misfortune; buoyancy.
(2) the property of a material that enables it to resume its
al shape or position after being bent, stretched, or
compressed; elasticity.

From clay | was molded and shaped into the image that |
currently am. Though | am human, yet and still | am only
an object. Since my creation | have been the very
definition of, ‘Resilience'. Just think about it Since my
conception, have | not been bent, stretched, and
compressed? Today's date is, June 05, 2021 and I'l be 36
in two weeks (on the 29th), have | not experienced illness,
change/ and or misfortune thus far? | mean, if | may be
frank, at the height of my father's climax | was tossed into
afight, a race. A race that would determine if | would exist
or not. We all know the conception process; from the
comforts of my mother's womb to the constant state of,
*head on a swivel' of this prison atmosphere that |
currently reside, have | not shown my elasticity?

1 was asked to write a piece on my Resilience’ since my
incarceration but what is prison? Isn't prison just a
place.. buiding...a tate of being/and or state of mind?
Yes, | currently reside in 2 physical building that just
happens to be a prison, but aren't we all? | mean, |
encounter staff here within this ‘prison’ that are
themselves in 'prison’. Some of these 'prisons' are:
alcoholism, drug abuse, authority junkies, bulies,
‘womanizers, whores/sluts, amputees, insecurity, gender
identity, domestic violence, etc. This you learn in simple
conversation, and/or observation.

I've learned empathy in the midst of this 'prison’. in my (16)
years of incarceration, I've had to take a hard lock at

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myself, my life, where I've come from, where I've landed,
where | want to go, how | see myself, who | want to be,
and who | am. There's this saying: 'f you make your bed
hard you have to lay in it And that is what people do.
They have these bad bouts with life and decide to just lay
there. For crimes committed | was deemed ‘unf’ for
saciety for (87) years. With that judgment/sentence, | was
given a choice...lay there and play the woe is me card, or
get back up and live. | chose to get back up and livel

I've found myself in Christ Jesus. I've attained my
Communications Degree. I've participated in various
groups such as: Parenting, (2) Book Clubs, Mind Over
Matter, Challenges And Possibilities, Restorative Justice,
Bible Seminars, Creative Writing competitions which has
led me to become a published author, and received
certificates in bible correspondences.

In closing, | am one of many siblings that were raised a certain
‘way, but chose a certain path in life. My elasticity
evident. So | guess 'Resilience is a part of my story 'cause
if anything...my life is very closely associated with the
definition of ‘buoyancy'

#justiced'anthony2021
Anthony ‘Moufpiece' Bolden #450829

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Famous Chili Mac

by: Anonymous

Ingredients:

1 160z bottle squeeze cheese
4 02. cheddar cheese bar
2.05 oz Kraft Easy Mac Cups
3 oz chili ramen noodles.
11.25 pouch chili with beans
5 oz. regular summer sausage
6 02. hot pickle

to a bowl. (No

Directions:

1. Break up ramen noodles and pu
seasoning yet.)

Add red beans and rice to bowl.
Add hot water and let sit. (You may add seasoning sait.)
Chop summer sausage and put into a second bowl. (Add
BBB sauce), then microwave for 2 minutes.

‘Add chil to meat bowl and microwave until hot.

Cook macaroni cups per packag
Cut up pickle and cheese bar.
Mix everything together and add ramen seasoning packets
and cheese. Enjoy.

swn

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CCl Surprise

by: Anonymous

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Ingredients:

13 oz. pkg. Duplex créme cookies
60z Honey bun

1.5 0z. Hershey bar

tsp. Cappuccino

1.74 0. pkg. peanut M&Ms

Directions:

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2.

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Remove cream filling from cookies and set aside.

Crush the cookies into a bowl and add a small amount of
water to form a dough.

Separate dough into 2 halves. Press first % into bottom of
bowl.

Cut honey bun into %" pieces and layer into the bowl.

Melt Hershey bar and pour over honey bun pieces.

Take second % of cookies dough and layer it on top.

Take cream fillng from cookies, cappuccino, and about 2
tsps. of water and mix to make icing. Spread on top and
sprinkle with M&Ms.

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No-Bake Cookies

by: Anonymous

Ingredients:

pkgs. instant oatmeal with raisins
cup peanut butter

cup water

thsp. sugar

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Directions:

1. Mixall ingredients in a bowl.

2. Shape into % inch thick cookies.
3. Letsitfor3 hours.

SRS
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Coffee-Less Turn Up.

by: Anonymous

Ingredients:

15 tea bags

5 Sugar-ree Kool-Ald packets
1 20 oz. Mountain Dew

Directions:
1. Fill pitcher 1/3 full with hot water and steep the tea.
2. Remove tea bags and add Kool-Aid and soda.

3. Fill the pitcher the rest of the way with ice.

4. Pour in cups filled with ice and enjoy.

1 hope you énjoyed this zine. I you have any comments to
share, email us at: WiPrisonRecipes@gmail.com

‘We can accept corrlinks emails. Lastly, | want to give a b
shout out to Communication Press for al their help in making
this and hopefully our next zine possible.

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