∞ January 16, 2012 at 01:33pm
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∞ January 03, 2012 at 10:21pm
As is becoming the tradition, the theme for Sarah and John’s New Year’s potluck was kitschy 1950s hors d’œuvres. I prepared this atomic-era pineapple cheeseball coated in pecans and decorated with baby corn and dried kiwis.
Among the more outrageous things people brought were tomato aspic with deviled eggs, dip served in a hollowed out pineapple with porcupine-like spears of cocktail shrimp and stuffed olives sticking out of the shell, and molded salad (a mold of jello filled with floating vegetables) with sour cream topping in the shape of a face.
∞ January 03, 2012 at 02:59pm
I got Conor xmas pudding as part of his gift this year. It’s pretty classic in Australia and England. It was my first time trying it, and boy is it tasty, especially with custard and brandy. There’s something inescapably wartime about eating a dessert made from soaking fruit in cheap spirits, wrapping them up in cloth, and hanging the bundle from your kitchen ceiling for a year, not to mentioning having to steam it on the stove for several hours before you can eat it. I’d love to try to make it some year.
