FOOD
On Monday nights in New Orleans, many sit down to a traditional dish of red beans & this
rice
In Florida the 113-mile-long Overseas Highway connects this group of islands to the mainland
the keys
An absent-minded person "has their head in" these—how heavenly
clouds
The black mamba is one of the largest & most dangerous of these
snake
It's the religion of most of the people of San Marino (the landlocked microstate within Italy)
Catholicism
Your cream will whip into a larger volume if you do this first to the bowl & beaters
chill them
The Allegheny Mountains are a part of this larger chain
the Appalachians
Shakespeare said "From the smoke into the smother"; we say "Out of the frying pan into" this
the fire
Unlike a bird's, this mammal's wings are made of a double layer of skin
bat
Vishnu's wife Lakshmi is the goddess of prosperity in this religion
the Hindu religion
Miso soup contains strips of kombu, which is this
seaweed
You'll find this state capital on the west bank of the Pearl River in central Mississippi
Jackson
Abe Lincoln didn't invent the cliche "paddle your own" one of these, but he did like to say it
a canoe
Named for its long beak, it's the species of dolphin that's been studied most
the bottle-nosed dolphin
Islam has 5 pillars, please name 1
Declaration of faith, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage (to Mecca).
The meats in saltimbocca are prosciutto & this
veal
This colorful region of Arizona extends from the Grand Canyon & includes part of Petrified Forest National Park
the Painted Desert
"Spectral" phrase for what a lost cause doesn't have
a ghost of a chance
The shaggy hair of this wild ox is used by Tibetans to make cords & ropes
yak
In the 13th century a Japanese monk named Nichiren founded a sect of this religion that still has devotees today
Buddhism
Tzatziki is a Greek side dish made with this health food & cucumber
yogurt
You'll find few natural lakes in this state other than the Bottomless Lakes near Roswell
New Mexico
Cloth is stretched on a tenter, so to be "on" these is to be stretched to the point of anxiety
tenterhooks
The tiniest carnivore is a member of this family that also includes minks & ferrets
the weasel family
Polytheism was restored to Egypt after the death of this pharaoh who had made Aton the supreme god
Akhenaten