As usual, I have bitten off more than I can chew. Plus, I spent the evening laughing until I barely made it to the bathroom, on the phone with my long-time friend Cheryl. "I have to go write," I kept saying, but do you think she could stop the funny? NOOOOOOO. So here I am, with a post I've been working on for days, and yet it's like that piece of chuck steak that you chew, and it keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger . . .
So here's the deal. The dinner party post has now officially become TWO dinner party posts, in order to a) collect more questions for our distinguished panel, and b) stall for time in the hopes that I'm being so gosh-darned cute that y'all don't even notice my slackitude.
Yeah, it doesn't work with my husband or family, either.
So Tuesday's part of The Great Dinner Party That Lasted Two Days will deal with the many succulent food offerings we shall have. To recap, the theme of the pot-luck is:
Delicious Food With One Hateful Ingredient, Because There's Always One Hateful Ingredient, Isn't There?I plan to bring a lovely spinach salad with a warm bacon vinaigrette, and a shitload of beets all over it just to kill the mood. Also, Lucky Charms, which is a bowl of hateful right there.
(Photo stolen from John-Morgan on Flickr)Here's where we stand. Mmmmmm, my tummy is growling right now.
Chesapeake Bay Woman at Life in Mathews is bringing scrapple, "Because I can." If you don't know what it is, and wonder what the hateful ingredient might be, go Google it, but make sure you reeeeeeally wanna know first. (She decided at the last minute NOT to bring muskrat kabobs, so that dish is open for the taking, for the moment.)
(Photo stolen from these guys)TJ at Humble Origins has staked out Possum & Sweet Taters with hard boiled eggs and beer, before anyone else could. She's fast, that TJ. Her offerings promise a rip-roaring good time.
Beej has brought her patented chips and salsa. We may have to add a hateful ingredient. Any ideas?
(Photo stolen from SJM418 on Flickr)Cow Punk, who is riding with Alias Liz, has a vat of haggis and a side of prunes. Hey now, Cow Punk, you're in prune country here in Northern California. May I assume that the haggis constitutes the evil part of the offering? Welcome!
(Photo stolen from these guys)MamaMo was already making a fancy Persian rice dish, and she has graciously offered to add cardamom pods, which, as she says, are "a surprise in every bite!"
(Photo stolen from these guys)Alias Liz Jones has the hot dogs under control, and if that's not hateful enough for you, she's topping it off with a big bowl of Cheerios. Works for me!
(Photo stolen from these guys)Kathi D at I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus will be bringing cocktail wieners doing the backstroke in barbecue sauce, "which is so wonderful that I will bring a side of Lima Beans, which are so very hateful."
(Photo stolen from this site)She has also promised to make mini pigs in blankets out of the non-swimming wieners, served with a side of sauerkraut. I leave it to you, dear readers, to find the hateful in this sentence.
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(Photo stolen from these guys)My buddy Rick's Cafe HAS to bring beer. He just HAS to. Rick, load up the cooler with some fine domestic ales and stouts, and for lighter fare we'll need some European pilsners and Mexican lagers. Oh, and for the hateful part? Any Bud or Coors product will do (THAT should start a fight).
Texasholly at June Cleaver Nirvana is bringing, in her exact words, "a Southwestern Caesar salad: lettuce, dressing with a little kick, tortilla strip croutons, sprinkling of cheese and big fat anchovies all over. The anchovies are so big and ugly that their memory lives on after their removal..."
(Photo stolen from these guys)Sarah at OK, Where Was I? has shown up with "Cheez Fries, which are gross and hateful already, but by the time I get there will be even worse b/c the cheez will have congealed.
(Photo stolen from raspberrii on Flickr)And I'll bring some kind of health nut cookie. You know those kinds that you're excited about and put on your plate, and then you take a bite and realize that they're gross and weird. Like with carob chips instead of chocolate."
Meg at Soup Is Not A Finger Food will provide the time-tested favorite liver and onions, "because, you know, organ meats are good fer ya." BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE! In case liver and onions aren't exotic enough for you, she will pick up some frogs' legs and pickled cow tongue at the 7-11 on her way out.
(Photo stolen from these guys)The Mom Bomb has offered to provide "a delicious crab dip . . . made with fake crabmeat, of course."
(Photo stolen from these guys)Mommy Pie finds the whole cooking activity itself hateful, and so she will man the phones for some take-out pizza. In keeping with our hateful theme, she will make sure they pile on lots of soggy Canadian bacon, which can't actually be blamed on our unsoggy neighbors to the north.
(Photo stolen from this site)Scrappysue may get the prize for traveling the farthest distance, as she comes from New Zealand. On her lap on the plane will be lambs fry (again, go look this one up, if you dare) and bacon. "The lambs fry will be in giant dried up over-cooked clumps and the bacon will be barely fried and slimy. The gravy will be lumpy." Promises, promises.
(Photo stolen from samm portelli on Flickr)Jason at The Jason Show had this to say: "Being of Mormon heritage, I shall bring jello. Lime flavored jello, cool and refreshing. With carrots, raisins, and tuna in it. Well? It was either that or corn fritters. But my first idea was enchiladas. With bunny meat. Or meatloaf. Made of goat meat.
But I'm sticking to the jello." Jello it is.
(Photo stolen from sanchoclos56 on Flickr)Erin at Mamadance has a particularly unique sense of pot luck fare: "I'm bringing grilled snake for Auds at Barking Mad, covered with creamed corn, my least favorite food in the whole world. Yum." I'm with you on the creamed corn, Erin; it sounds both delicious and revolting at once, like a good pot luck dish should be.
(Photo stolen from this guy)My party co-host Auds from Barking Mad! has loaded down the Volvo with fresh Maine lobsters and "my fabulous late summer salad which includes fresh Maine blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, honeydew melon and a honey yogurt drizzle." How do I tell her that there is not one hateful ingredient in the lot? OR, I could just leave everything on the counter for about four minutes and let the ants inject their own special hatefulness. Yes, that's it.
(Photo stolen from these guys)Grandma J from Ask Grandma J had this to say: "I will bring a swimming pool cake that I made one summer with my grandkids. It's a sheet cake hollowed out in the middle, iced with cool whip, then the center is filled with blue raspberry jello that's partially gelled so it's bumpy. Then you put graham bears floating in gummy lifesavers in the 'pool,' a few more can sunbathe on the deck with cocktail umbrellas to shade them.
Otherwise I would have to bring corn dogs." That's okay, Grandma J -- we have the tube-shaped food category covered!
Please folks, send me any more questions you may have for the bloggers. I'd relist their links but it's 12:50 a.m. (that's IN THE MORNING for you readers who AREN'T freaks like me) and I can barely see, but I still have to post this. So please check
the original post link for everyone's name and blog link, go check out a new-to-you blog, and e-mail me a question to pose to one of them, or more than one.
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Nighty-night! See you back here Wednesday!
UPDATED TUESDAY 8/26, 2:08 p.m. to add:Miss Heart Shaped Hedges (rumored to be a relative of Grandma J) just skidded in sideways with everyone's favorite, 7-layer bean dip. As she puts it, "6 yummy layers: cheese, scallions, olives, salsa, ground beef, refried beans, and then 1 layer that ruins the whole darned thing: sour cream!"
I got news for Miss HSH: sour cream is what I live for. As you were!
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