Links for 2008-10-27: a recipe book for Spam sparks memories of Domestic Science exams; Food Snob details the recent chocolate tasting menu at Almeida in London; ghastly recipes for party food from Foodarama; Lumigan may be available OTC as a drug to lengthen eyelashes.
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You may laugh at many of these, but not the remarkably scrumptious Baked Spam with cloves which is a store-cupboard stand-by and has been for many years. When I was at school you had to answer exam questions in Domestic Science such as: “You will be painting during the day. You must ensure that everything is cleared away so that your husband does not return home to a disorganised house. You will be stopping for lunch. Design a menu that ensures that dinner is ready at the usual time when your husband comes home. (The best answer involved a cold starter like egg mayonnaise with anchovy; a casserole that you could prep before starting to paint and could be left cooking on a slow heat in the oven; prep the vegetables and put some apples to bake on an up-turned cake tin on the floor of the oven).) Baked Spam was a possible answer to: Your son telephones to warn you that he will arrive with several friends. What can you feed them heartily and quickly from store-cupboard supplies?
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Chocolate menu. Pay particular attention to the assemble-it-yourself sundae course. Is this so very different from the ‘crazy teenage birthday supper’ below with its luminiscent sundae ingredients and wicker duck?
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Ah, when I was a girl, I used to read these books and laugh merrily. Primarily because the food sounded so disgusting that I couldn’t believe that people ate it, but also because of the sheer implausibility of obtaining ingredients such as cream cheese. Being offered red or white was thought of as being well-stocked for grocers in many parts of the UK.
The frozen fruit and cheese pudding with added spices sounds revolting rather than a precursor of molecular gastronomy.
I don’t find the wicker duck with banana any more ridiculous than the ever popular cheese and pineapple hedgehog, modelled on a foil covered potato or half-swede. The do-it-yourself sundae is what the chocolate menu (above) is wittily deconstructing (or so the claim would go). Admire the lucky-dip of whether or not the quick fluffy icing would give you salmonella for the children’s birthday cake.
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A crossover that might mean that the costs of the drug might be subsidised and have a new 2nd life. Like Viagra, Botox, Regaine. Allergan.
Yes, because people might potentially be running the risk of in-growing eyelashes to achieve thicker lashes.
