Nov. 25th, 2010 09:49 pm
Yankee turkey for Southern choppers
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muckefuckIs there a more gratifying vote of confidence in your skills as a host than guests who are loath to move on the next event they're committed for? It was a very good crowd this year, which was all the more impressive given the thrown-together nature of the guest list. Nuphy and Mr Brown are friendly acquaintances from well back at this point, but Nuphy knew the orphan couple only fleetingly from a previous get-together and they knew Mr Brown not at all. But you'd never have known it given how famously they all got along.
The Southern vibe helped a lot. In sum, we had a native Kentuckian, a native Tennessean, a NOLAn, and a native Californian assembled from Southern parts.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bunj nailed it when he told me over the phone from North Carolina, "I'll let you get back to your Southern exiles in the North and I'll get back to my Northern exiles in the South." Needless to say, the theme drink incorporated bourbon and lots of it. I'm indebted to Domestic Daddy for this one (and to monshu for bringing it to my attention).niemandsrose turned me on to) would make the drink pleasantly drier and I felt vindicated by the response. It helps that, despite being bourbon drinkers, this is not a crowd with very sweet tastes for the most part. Our orphan couple rarely eat dessert, they told us, but there's no one who can't be won over by Mr Brown's maple-pumpkin cheesecake.
The rest of the menu was filled out with old favourites: cornbread-sausage stuffing, chipotle sweet potatoes, and swiss chard a la española (my one contribution to the meal).monshu debated which wine to open and finally concluded, "This is a Muga event." But there was a veritable parade of liquor bottles across the table--and across the apartment to the parlour--for sniffing as well as sipping purposes.
With all that mixing and matching, I'm going to be one seriously hungover puppy tomorrow, but it will be worth it. Any amount of distress is worth the glow inmonshu's face as he surveyed his handiwork and pronounced it good.
The Southern vibe helped a lot. In sum, we had a native Kentuckian, a native Tennessean, a NOLAn, and a native Californian assembled from Southern parts.
bunj nailed it when he told me over the phone from North Carolina, "I'll let you get back to your Southern exiles in the North and I'll get back to my Northern exiles in the South." Needless to say, the theme drink incorporated bourbon and lots of it. I'm indebted to Domestic Daddy for this one (and to monshu for bringing it to my attention).I thought the hard cider (I used the J.K. Scrumpy's thatCatherineDa's Harvest Punch
1 csparkling applehard cider
3-4 oz. bourbon
1 oz. dry vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters
niemandsrose turned me on to) would make the drink pleasantly drier and I felt vindicated by the response. It helps that, despite being bourbon drinkers, this is not a crowd with very sweet tastes for the most part. Our orphan couple rarely eat dessert, they told us, but there's no one who can't be won over by Mr Brown's maple-pumpkin cheesecake.The rest of the menu was filled out with old favourites: cornbread-sausage stuffing, chipotle sweet potatoes, and swiss chard a la española (my one contribution to the meal).
monshu debated which wine to open and finally concluded, "This is a Muga event." But there was a veritable parade of liquor bottles across the table--and across the apartment to the parlour--for sniffing as well as sipping purposes.With all that mixing and matching, I'm going to be one seriously hungover puppy tomorrow, but it will be worth it. Any amount of distress is worth the glow in
monshu's face as he surveyed his handiwork and pronounced it good.