Well my attempts to celebrate teh holiday with charred meat were for naught. My tummy wasn't letting me leave the house.
I can't believe I have to go back to work tomorrow. Working is way overrated.
Wash: I'm not leaving her side, Mal. Don't ask me again. Mal: I wasn't asking. I was telling.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - Jul 01, 2008 3:22:28 pm PDT #5977 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Amy - Jul 01, 2008 3:27:43 pm PDT #5978 of 10003
Because books.
One of my totally plebeian favorites is spinach dip with pumpernickel bread (I usually serve the dip in the hollowed out loaf). To make it more finger-foody, and with less chance to icky double dipping, you could make little finger sandwiches of two thin slices spread with the dip.
(Now I want to make this. And eat it. Right now.)
You could do mini quiches, too.
Jesse - Jul 01, 2008 3:31:59 pm PDT #5979 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I love the spinach dip! It's way more impressive than the work it takes, too.
Unlike potstickers, which is the other thing I just thought of. If you make them yourself, I mean....
I had a great grilled veg platter at a tapas place recently, and that's easy. It came with some stuff I will try to look up now.
Tamara - Jul 01, 2008 3:33:17 pm PDT #5980 of 10003
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Wontons are pretty easy and fun to make.
Trudy Booth - Jul 01, 2008 3:33:51 pm PDT #5981 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I saw a health blog suggesting prunes wrapped in bacon (actually, prosciutto) and baked, and that sounds like fun. (Not... necessarily healthy. They were trying to get people to eat prunes. And calling them "dried plums," like we don't know what prunes are.)
Yes! Which is why "prune juice" has always bugged me. Why would you juice something that's DRIED? Isn't it really plum juice?
Jesse - Jul 01, 2008 3:35:46 pm PDT #5982 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Romescu! It was delicious. It also caused the waitress to ask us, very seriously, if we were allergic to nuts -- which was a good call, since I wouldn't have known there were nuts in the romescu, either before ordering it or before eating it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 01, 2008 3:56:06 pm PDT #5983 of 10003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Starfruit slices, apricot halves, and cherries were a big hit at the last party I threw.
I also swear by cucumber slices on sundried tomato bread. And homemade mini-pizzas (pita bread topped with Classico tomato & basil or roasted garlic pasta sauce, parmesan cheese, and crumbled feta cheese).
Laura - Jul 01, 2008 4:36:27 pm PDT #5984 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
The goal is lots of finger food-ish stuff, largely vegetarian but with both some vegan and some meat.
The last convention I attended had marinated skewers of dried tomato, mozzarella cheese balls, artichoke hearts, and olives. So very yum.
eta: there was fresh basil in there too!
amych - Jul 01, 2008 4:38:38 pm PDT #5985 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
skewers of dried tomato, mozzarella cheese balls, artichoke hearts, and olives. So very yum.
Hmmm. I was planning all these components in different ways, but on skewers... handy and fun!
(continuing to mark all the party foods!)
Jesse - Jul 01, 2008 4:40:56 pm PDT #5986 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yeah, my mother does something similar -- cheese tortellini, artichoke hearts, cheese, maybe pepperoncini, I forget what else. Antipasto skewers. Delish!