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Monday, December 26, 2011
Cheese Ball, Day 4
I had some friends over for lunch on Christmas Eve and decided to cook like a smartass: with a nod at various white goyim stereotypes. I made things I'd never made or eaten: meatloaf, two kinds of casseroles, an actual cheese ball. What I learned from the experience is that bourbon really does in fact go with everything and that one cheese ball can probably feed an entire Los Angeles suburb. Here is the cheese ball at day four. It is one pound of cream cheese mixed with one pound of cheddar and a heavy slug of worchestire sauce, all rolled in crushed pecans. A dent has barely been made on one end. As you can imagine, the rest of the week is going to be one hell of a dairy battle.
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Hmm. Are you throwing a New Year's Eve shindig? You could try turning it into pastry puffs or something.
Then again, anyone who reads your blog will know you've been recycling appetizers. Maybe not.
Yeah, recycling appetizers is not exactly as acceptable as recycling gifts. I'm thinking lots of cheese ball fortified oeuf en cocotte are in my future.
I have never made a cheese ball but I do make some killer casseroles. I am curious what kind you made?
BTW - the goy make HAM on Christmas. Not meatloaf. And egg nog, not bourbon. If you had just asked me I could have told you all about it. (In AZ it is also traditional to make tamales.)
I just realized something kind of funny. Christmas Day we all decided we wanted to go out to eat. We thought Chinese sounded good. So we it's like we switched roles their for a moment (only you got your part wrong).
Yes, Googs, I know about ham on Xmas. Also, egg nog. But I wasn't trying to do a goyim Xmas dinner. My first thought was to do something more like a goyim retro night. That's why the meatloaf and deviled eggs and Manhattans and lemon chiffon pie. It was my nod to the 50s housewife. Had I wanted to do an Xmas dinner, I totally would have done a ham and those awesome scalloped potatoes that we were deprived of as Jews.
Oh, I have a Julia Child recipe for scalloped potatoes - to die for.
That woman understood the finer things in life: butter and cream.
That cheese ball was glorious. I still feel fat. I'm not sure I'll be able to recover. At least not until I get back east to my gym.
You and my mom will be the end of me, Kiki.
50s goyim retro food? You absolutely should have scalloped some potatoes! And the cheese ball would have been gone if you'd served it with Chicken in a Biskit crackers.
The deviled eggs were a nice touch, however, given the day and the name and all.
And drinks should have been served in these: http://www.etsy.com/listing/22052774/10-pc-vintage-anodized-aluminum-drinking
We thought we were all that when we got us some shiny metal drinking glasses.
Leslie's so right, Chicken in a Biskit crackers are a requirement for successful cheeseballs. I had both for Christmas. The midwestern in me just doesn't leave.
My favorite leftover cheeseball use is in a mashed potato omelet (then again, i never bother with those pesky nuts on the outside), but you could eat it with roasted brussels sprouts - even the nuts would go with that.
my favorite casserole is the onion casserole... i'm going to stop now.
I just don't know that I'm equipped to handle Chicken in a Biskit anything. I served two kinds of mini crackers from Trader Joes--the multigrain ones and the gorgonzolas. I mean really, how much white trash do you think I could take?
Also, what the hell is an onion casserole?
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