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Daily December-->January: crazed cooking plans
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alphaflyer, originally for New Year's Eve)
I didn't really do anything but sit around the lounge at the Grand Floridian hotel at Disney World for NYE and then it was January, so I held off on answering this until I had something a little more exciting than pasta with chicken and broccoli to say. I think we really are going to do this, though, so what's up is that I'm taking advantage of the holiday* next weekend and doing a Lord of the Rings marathon, complete with all seven Hobbit meals.
The extended editions come in at about 11 hours of viewing time, which means I'm planning on eating about every 1.5 - 2 hours, and for this inaugural event, I'm riffing on the Alamo Cinema and Drafthouse menu.
Their menu varies a little from year to year, but it's basically what's on this banner:
First Breakfast
Fresh Hens eggs, nice crispy bacon, grilled mushrooms and rosemary seared orange Canella
Blood Orange Mimosa
Second Breakfast
Strawberries and Cream with Round Rock honey
Chaucer's Mead
Elevensies
House made garlic, herb, and pork sausage and tomatoes with cheeses, ale-braised cabbage and pickles
Dogfish Raison D'etre
Luncheon
Grilled New Zealand lamb t-bone chops, cherry pepper cabernet reduction, with mashed potatoes, roast baby carrots
Guinness Stout
Afternoon Tea
Baby greens with garlic blackberry vinaigrette, salted pork-cheese galette, shortbread and gingersnaps
Hot Tea. Add a shot of Jameson Irish Whiskey for $6
Dinner
Stewed Coney with taters, carrot, and leek, fresh garden herbs with crusty bread
Woodchuck Amber Cider
Supper
Swirl of tomato and spinach soups wild mushroom crouton, summer berry turnover with cream
NV Charles Bove Sparkling Brut
Lembas bread as needed
Notes: I will not be serving all that alcohol to my kids & their friends (though I may need a little to get me through in the kitchen) and I don't think I'm doing rabbit stew for dinner (unless one of my husbands good ol' boy friends comes through with a hunting expedition.) Probably a sturdy beef stew there. Everything else, though, I think I can manage (the salted pork and goat cheese galette will probably be more of a country ham and gruyere combo, but the spirit is the same, I think.)
(Click here for a little geeky food porn/inspiration. If I don't lose my mind completely, we'll try something similar for the Hobbit trilogy, based on all the food Bilbo serves the dwarves. Tolkien was super-nice and listed it all out for me; all I have to do is practice making pork pies.)
Wish me luck!
* President's Day, for non-USians, which is one of those useless sorts of holidays that aren't very much fun to celebrate, but hey, any excuse for a long weekend in the middle of the gray winter slog, yeah?
alphaflyer, originally for New Year's Eve)I didn't really do anything but sit around the lounge at the Grand Floridian hotel at Disney World for NYE and then it was January, so I held off on answering this until I had something a little more exciting than pasta with chicken and broccoli to say. I think we really are going to do this, though, so what's up is that I'm taking advantage of the holiday* next weekend and doing a Lord of the Rings marathon, complete with all seven Hobbit meals.
The extended editions come in at about 11 hours of viewing time, which means I'm planning on eating about every 1.5 - 2 hours, and for this inaugural event, I'm riffing on the Alamo Cinema and Drafthouse menu.
Their menu varies a little from year to year, but it's basically what's on this banner:
First Breakfast
Fresh Hens eggs, nice crispy bacon, grilled mushrooms and rosemary seared orange Canella
Blood Orange Mimosa
Second Breakfast
Strawberries and Cream with Round Rock honey
Chaucer's Mead
Elevensies
House made garlic, herb, and pork sausage and tomatoes with cheeses, ale-braised cabbage and pickles
Dogfish Raison D'etre
Luncheon
Grilled New Zealand lamb t-bone chops, cherry pepper cabernet reduction, with mashed potatoes, roast baby carrots
Guinness Stout
Afternoon Tea
Baby greens with garlic blackberry vinaigrette, salted pork-cheese galette, shortbread and gingersnaps
Hot Tea. Add a shot of Jameson Irish Whiskey for $6
Dinner
Stewed Coney with taters, carrot, and leek, fresh garden herbs with crusty bread
Woodchuck Amber Cider
Supper
Swirl of tomato and spinach soups wild mushroom crouton, summer berry turnover with cream
NV Charles Bove Sparkling Brut
Lembas bread as needed
Notes: I will not be serving all that alcohol to my kids & their friends (though I may need a little to get me through in the kitchen) and I don't think I'm doing rabbit stew for dinner (unless one of my husbands good ol' boy friends comes through with a hunting expedition.) Probably a sturdy beef stew there. Everything else, though, I think I can manage (the salted pork and goat cheese galette will probably be more of a country ham and gruyere combo, but the spirit is the same, I think.)
(Click here for a little geeky food porn/inspiration. If I don't lose my mind completely, we'll try something similar for the Hobbit trilogy, based on all the food Bilbo serves the dwarves. Tolkien was super-nice and listed it all out for me; all I have to do is practice making pork pies.)
Wish me luck!
* President's Day, for non-USians, which is one of those useless sorts of holidays that aren't very much fun to celebrate, but hey, any excuse for a long weekend in the middle of the gray winter slog, yeah?
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I am impressed with both your gumption and cooking skills
enjoy your marathon.........and your yummy foods
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Love the idea of the Hobbit meals. Are you going to do those movies, too??
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The middle kid thinks we should marathon the Hobbit movies for my birthday and do all the food the dwarves cleared out of Bilbo's larder, so that's a tentative plan for later in the year.