Belly Up to the Bar With Bendy and Her Friendies!!! Button Pics & New Thread Started!

[oybolshoi]

Ingredients:

2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup dairy eggnog
1/2 cup butter (melted)
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons rum
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 1/4 cup flour

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees & grease bottom of bread pan.

Beat eggs and then add sugar, eggnog, butter, rum, and vanilla - beating well. Add flour, baking powder, and nutmeg - stir until just moistened.

Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 45-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool for 10 minutes and then remove from pan - cool completely before serving with tasty ice cream or fresh whipped cream.

 

[oybolshoi]

Asparagus Bundles Wrapped in Prosciutto

Ingredients:

1 to 1 1/2 pounds asparagus (about 40 spears)
1/4 pound sliced prosciutto (about 8 slices)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
Freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 lemon, cut into wedgies

Directions:

Bring a large skillet of water to boil over high heat. Meanwhile, trim ends from the asparagus and peel the lower half of the spears. Add the 'goose to the boiling water and cook, covered, for 2 minutes. Immediately drain and rinse under cold running water until the 'goose are cold. Drain again.

Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.

Gather abour 4-5 asparagus spears of similar size and thickness, line them up, and then trim the ends so they are all the same length. Place a strip of prosciutto on a clean work surface (who'd use a dirty one? ), fold it lengthwise to make a long, thin strip. Arrange your spears in the middle of the prosciutto and roll the meat around the 'goose. Place the meaty little bundle in the bottom of a glass baking dish and repeat with process with remaining asparagus spears and meat.

In a small skillet, heat the butter and oil over medium heat. Add garlic and cook for 3 minutes, stirring frequently until the garlic is soft but not brown. Remove from heat and season with pepper to taste.

Sprinkle cheese over all those waiting asparagus bundles in their baking pan and then drizzle with the butter mixture (the dish can be made several hours in advance up to this point - cover and refrigerate until ready to bake).

Bake the asparagus for 13-15 minutes - the cheese should be melted and the 'goose should be tender but not soft. Serve hot with lemon wedgies on the side.

My family ... even the rather picky Grimace ... loves this dish!

 

[Tink rules]

Ohhh... if these weren't already copyrighted... I'd suggest we put things together in one of those church style charity cookbooks so we could pay for Bendy's next trip... and mine... and everyone elses...

 

[oybolshoi]

Here is the recipe for those lovely little bird rolls that Jon made for Thanksgiving that so many of you wanted the recipe for. I copied it directly from his email - the recipe was handed down from his mother who passed away a few years ago.

Pigeon Rolls

Dough: Dissolve 1 crumbled yeast cake in 1 pint of lukewarm milk, add 6 Tbsp. sugar, 2 tsp. salt, 2 eggs, beaten, and 3 c. flour; beat until smooth and elastic. Beat in ¼ lb. butter, melted and cooled. Add 3 c. flour and work in well with both hands. Turn to lightly floured board, cover and let rest 10 min. Knead until smooth, elastic; cover and let rise in warm place until double in bulk.

Roll dough to ½-inch thickness and cut into ropes 9 inches long, ½ inch thick. Tie each rope into a loose knot, one end shorter than the the other. Pinch short end to resemble bird's head with beak; flatten long end and fringe with scissors. Place on greased pan, allow to double on bulk. Brush with beaten eggs; bake at 400 °F 15-20 minutes. Add two whole cloves for eyes.

Notes from the Mad Scientist himself:

1. I use Rapid-Rise yeast and add it to the dry ingredients. An alternative for the sugar and salt addition, see 2.
2. Warm the milk on low and add the stick of butter. When the butter is melted, the milk should be warm enough to add. The sugar and salt could be dissolved here as well.
3. Even with six cups of flour the dough can still be quite sticky. Well-floured hands and enough added flour on the kneading surface will get it so it can be easily kneaded.
4. To make the birds, I flatten one side of the dough ball to a half-inch or so thickness and begin cutting of the ropes, cutting off a half-inch or so width. This is cut into 3-4 sections. I then roll the ropes between my hands, or on the work surface to make them round before tying. I continue flattening, and cutting, and tying as the birds are made. When a pan is full I begin baking while the remainder of the birds are being made.

 

[travelmel]

after being told that we were too far off-topic to keep the first review thread open any longer.

Brenda got shut down like an after hours party in Celebration, FL.

I gotta can'a whoop-butt here for you, Missy!

 

[Tatania]

I'm hoping that people will want to do more than just exchange recipes (although I have no problem with that at all). I think we needed a place where we could pretty much talk about whatever the heck we wanted to (books, upcoming trips, my latest chronic affliction - haha - history, booze, food ... etc.) after being told that we were too far off-topic to keep the first review thread open any longer.

Sounds good to me. You're threads are always interesting and so funny - so I'm in.

After all the cooking over Xmas I'm still debating (at 1 am) whether to make New Years Eve dinner or go out. My son wants to go party and his Dad is out of town so it would be the parents and myself. I'm just not into New Years Eve's parties and would rather watch some DVDs.
I'm going to call one of the really good hotel restaurants in the morning and see if they still have openings - just for the dinner.

At midnight we'll be home and toasting with Pomegranate -Ginger Champagne Cocktails.

For New Years Day, I'll make Cheese Blintzes with Blueberry Sauce and "Nun's Revenge" Italian Hot Chocolate for brunch.

For dinner it's the Creamy Lobster Soup from Coral Reef (Epcot), Porterhouse Steaks, Au Gratin Potatoes (also from Coral Reef), Tofu and Curried Green Beans (Boma) and a fabulous Passion Fruit Flan from a local cafe - because I don't want to be cooking all day!
I really love my Disney recipes

 

[oybolshoi]

Brenda got shut down like an after hours part in Celebration, FL.

I gotta can'a whoop-butt here for you, Missy!

That's too funny ... especially the little dancing lock icon ...


Yes, my persecution complex is alive and well just in time for the end of the year.

 

[oybolshoi]

Sounds good to me. You're threads are always interesting and so funny - so I'm in.

Thanks - I do get a lot of help from everyone else, though.

After all the cooking over Xmas I'm still debating (at 1 am) whether to make New Years Eve dinner or go out. My son wants to go party and his Dad is out of town so it would be the parents and myself. I'm just not into New Years Eve's parties and would rather watch some DVDs.
I'm going to call one of the really good hotel restaurants in the morning and see if they still have openings - just for the dinner.

At midnight we'll be home and toasting with Pomegranate -Ginger Champagne Cocktails.

For New Years Day, I'll make Cheese Blintzes with Blueberry Sauce and "Nun's Revenge" Italian Hot Chocolate for brunch.

For dinner it's the Creamy Lobster Soup from Coral Reef (Epcot), Porterhouse Steaks, Au Gratin Potatoes (also from Coral Reef), Tofu and Curried Green Beans (Boma) and a fabulous Passion Fruit Flan from a local cafe - because I don't want to be cooking all day!
I really love my Disney recipes

Your food plans sound really good to me! As for New Year's Eve ... we never go out that night if we can help it. Restaurants are too busy and there are just too many wacked out people doing stupider than usual things ... safer to stay home where it's quiet and smoke-free!

 

[Danauk]

Ooh I love the aspagagus and prosciutto recipe. I love the asparagus wrapped in bacon from the Bengal BBQ at Disneyland. One of my favourite things to cook is chicken wrapped in prosciutto with sage leaves under in all marinated in lime juice. I'll look the recipe up in my BBQ book in a bit.

 

[D&R love Disney]

I can't wait to make the asparagus for Rick, it's his favorite and wrapped in prociutto

I was hoping to make your stuffed tenderloin for NYE but the snow gods are going to spoil our night. Looks like Rick will be plowing snow for the day/night and I'll be home alone with the booze all to myself If he gets home early we'll just head to our favorite chinese place, they've got entertainment until 2:00 am.

 

[whogirl'smom]

Morning all food loving peeps! Brenda, you did a great job with the links to recipes--I hope we haven't ended up giving you too much work managing all the recipes that I'm sure will pour forth. (I don't know, maybe links are easy. I sure don't know how to do them. )

We are having friends over tomorrow night, with kids, but I don't know if one family is coming yet. I have no idea what to fix, just know I want some sausage balls! One family doesn't drink (not religious reasons, or health, so I'm not sure why not. Their little girl went home from our house saying, Mama, they had BEER in the little refrigerator in their mud room! Their dd asked my dd if we got drunk! Her mom was so embarrassed I thought she'd die!) So, I either need some incognito beverage holders or be okay with not drinking anything in front of this child.

And then you have me, who took dd into the liquor store to buy all the wine and alcohol for Christmas....is that bad? I remember always going to the "package store" with my dad a couple times a year and didn't think anything about it.

 

[travelmel]

That's too funny ... especially the little dancing lock icon ...


Yes, my persecution complex is alive and well just in time for the end of the year.

It was supposed to say after-hours PARTY not "part" but oh well, hopefully you got the idea. lol

Thanks for starting a community thread!

 

[kabuki]

Wow Brenda this is a great idea. I have to say I think somehow I have been taken off the DisBoards! I never get updates to anything anymore! I try and not take it personal ..somehow I think HAL is saying I spend too much time looking at food!

Here is my 1st offering to all food peoples-
Ginger Pineapple Martini
Can also add champagne

Ingredients:

1 ½ cups Water
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Ginger sliced and unpeeled
3 cups Unsweetened pineapple juice
¼ cup Fresh lemon juice
¼ cup Fresh lime juice
3 cups Sparkling water
To taste Vodka
Directions:

1. Bring water, sugar and ginger to a boil stirring until sugar is dissolved. Simmer and cook for 10 minutes.
2. Remove from heat and steep uncovered for 15 minutes
3. Pour syrup through a sieve into a bowl and discard ginger.
4. Chill until cold about 2 hours
5. Stir together remaining ingredients.
6. serve
7. Syrup keeps for 2 weeks covered and chilled

 

[jess20k]

I am so glad you started this thread, it an awesome idea!

 

[kabuki]

OK! I am back already! I had a friend send me this article.. I am looking at places to go for my 40th ..
Had to send it to you Brenda and all cheese people here!

http://www.forbestraveler.com/food-drink/cheese-plate-restaurants-slide.html

 

[oybolshoi]

Just in time for New Year's Eve ... I'm finally getting around to posting the pictures from our Christmas glutton fest. I hope you enjoy them!

To start ... it just ain't a holiday brekkie without the Brandy Milk Punch! Yum Yum Yum ... I love the face numbing effects produced by just one glass.

One glass or two?

To accompany the milk punch we heated some more of our miniature croissants from Williams Sonoma ... they come 24 to a box and we still have a dozen to get through; I think we'll probably have some for when (and if) Jay's parents are brave enough to face the godlessness of a meal at our house.

Who doesn't love a good croissant?

The tree with some prezzies tucked underneath ...

Hey kids ... watch Santa pull a tree out of his butt!

Every house needs a Yule log ... log rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over your neighbor's dog ... on Christmas morning. And why go to all the trouble of starting a natural fire, or even a gas fire, when you can just turn on the television and have a ready-made Yule log burning constantly while cheerful holiday music plays in the background?

Let's all bask in the television's warm, glowing, warming glow...

Our dining room all prettied up for dinner ...

And now the serious work begins ... getting everything ready for hours of drinking and feasting! First up, Bendy feeds pills to her various ailments in an effort to keep them relatively docile. Seriously, I have more daily prescriptions than either my mom or my step-dad and the last time I checked they had at least 30 years on me. Maybe the wii trainer was right and I really am 66 years old?!

If this collection gets any bigger I'm going to need another baggie at the airport ...

Would you like to see our liquor stash? Grimace thinks we're alcoholics but as I've said many times before ... alcoholic implies that we have a problem; we're just lushes. And besides, it behooves a good host and hostess to have a variety on hand for guests so that they have a choice of drinks.

And here's what I used to make a batch of Cranberry Amaretto Kisses ...

See how pretty and festive it looks in my awesome little Mikasa glass? I bought a set of six a few summers ago when they were on sale and each glass has a different pattern - we thought the drink looked just perfect served in them.

In keeping with the liquor theme ... a good friend sent us two boxes of dark chocolate liqueur cups (booze to be supplied by us). Jay and I had already experiment with them before Christmas day but we set the remainder out for the others to try (should they so wish). Various alcoholic beverages we tried include: milk punch, kahlua, vanille royale, port, and whisky.

To quote Homer Simpson, "To Alcohol: the cause of and solution to all of life's problems!"

Continued in next post ...

 

[oybolshoi]

With my fabu and very timely gift card from Williams Sonoma I also ordered these fancy schmany chocolate dominoes filled with caramel. Not only did they sound divine, but I thought it would be funny because we have a dominoes game that we love to play when the family gets together.

Sadly, as you will see, the people in the packaging department didn't know the meaning of the word frah-geeeeee-lay. And I can't really blame Sonoma because this item shipped directly from the manufacturer ... Christopher Norman Chocolates. I have a note reminding me to call them on Friday to complain ... nicely.

Cool packaging

Pulverized ...

Those dominoes that could be salvaged were promptly displayed on a plate ... the others were ruthlessly disposed of by your devoted author and her husband.

More than one sweet tooth in the family? Get enough holiday candy to fill a mammoth glass vase ... it looks really festive and eats good too!

Our kitchen table begins to take on its holiday snacking look ...

We marinated the tenderloin overnight in some red wine bathing juice that Jay created off the top off his head. That's my marinade man!

And here's how it looked after being stuffed with the goat cheese mixture, tied up with twine, and rubbed with herbs. Sounds kind of kinky, doesn't it?

And now you can see it right out of the oven ...

And finally sliced up for consumption - yum!

I still have more but I have to get to bed so I'll post the rest on Wedbesday afternoon ... I get to leave work early on New Year's Eve.

 

[Tink rules]

Just in time for New Year's Eve ... I'm finally getting around to posting the pictures from our Christmas glutton fest. I hope you enjoy them!

To start ... it just ain't a holiday brekkie without the Brandy Milk Punch! Yum Yum Yum ... I love the face numbing effects produced by just one glass.

One glass or two?

To accompany the milk punch we heated some more of our miniature croissants from Williams Sonoma ... they come 24 to a box and we still have a dozen to get through; I think we'll probably have some for when (and if) Jay's parents are brave enough to face the godlessness of a meal at our house.

Who doesn't love a good croissant?

The tree with some prezzies tucked underneath ...

Hey kids ... watch Santa pull a tree out of his butt!

Hey isn't that a cruise I see under there???

[/QUOTE]

Every house needs a Yule log ... log rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over your neighbor's dog ... on Christmas morning. And why go to all the trouble of starting a natural fire, or even a gas fire, when you can just turn on the television and have a ready-made Yule log burning constantly while cheerful holiday music plays in the background?

Let's all bask in the television's warm, glowing, warming glow...

Our dining room all prettied up for dinner ...

And now the serious work begins ... getting everything ready for hours of drinking and feasting! First up, Bendy feeds pills to her various ailments in an effort to keep them relatively docile. Seriously, I have more daily prescriptions than either my mom or my step-dad and the last time I checked they had at least 30 years on me. Maybe the wii trainer was right and I really am 66 years old?!

If this collection gets any bigger I'm going to need another baggie at the airport ...

[/QUOTE]

No wonder we get along so well... I'll see you your pink pills and raise you a jar of blue ones...

And don't forget... Plankton gets to haul a baggie of his own... to share... just feed him cookies and he's fine... Maybe...

 

[Tink rules]

[/QUOTE]

Would you like to see our liquor stash? Grimace thinks we're alcoholics but as I've said many times before ... alcoholic implies that we have a problem; we're just lushes. And besides, it behooves a good host and hostess to have a variety on hand for guests so that they have a choice of drinks.

[/QUOTE]

Lushes????? Ahhh Ha HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Ha HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

They have no sense of humor at all...

[/QUOTE]

And here's what I used to make a batch of Cranberry Amaretto Kisses ...

See how pretty and festive it looks in my awesome little Mikasa glass? I bought a set of six a few summers ago when they were on sale and each glass has a different pattern - we thought the drink looked just perfect served in them.

In keeping with the liquor theme ... a good friend sent us two boxes of dark chocolate liqueur cups (booze to be supplied by us). Jay and I had already experiment with them before Christmas day but we set the remainder out for the others to try (should they so wish). Various alcoholic beverages we tried include: milk punch, kahlua, vanille royale, port, and whisky.

To quote Homer Simpson, "To Alcohol: the cause of and solution to all of life's problems!"

Continued in next post ...[/QUOTE]

Ohhh... More Bendy goodness!!!

 

[travelmel]

And here's how it looked after being stuffed with the goat cheese mixture, tied up with twine, and rubbed with herbs. Sounds kind of kinky, doesn't it?

What!?



It's a food thread and those are banana's.