Drunken Pumpkin

A few years ago Terry Pratchett released a book of recipes from the Discworld. (If you haven’t read any Discworld books I highly recommend them.) Most of the recipes I can’t sort out, as they seem to require some odd British ingredients that are completely alien to us folks in the U.S. However, an awesome Halloween-ish recipe is for Sheep’s Eyes.

Ingredients:
Eyeball sized pickled onions
Stuffed green olives
tube of cream cheese.

(You can probably see where this is going.)
Remove the inside of each onion, leaving the outer skins intact except for a hole at either end. Carefully insert the green olive into the pickled onion skin so that the pimento is visible through the hole in the onion. Fill the remainder of the onion skin with cream cheese with a little “tail” of the cream cheese sticking out the other end. Repeat until thoroughly repulsed. Feed to unsuspecting trick-or-treaters if legal in your area.

from Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan, and Paul Kidby.

I’m on an email list from Warren Ellis called Bad Signal. I have no idea what prompted the last few rounds of stuff from Ellis, but it contains some tasty looking recipes and some angry language. Which is why I’m not putting the text on the front page. Just click on through and you can enjoy the oddity that is Warren Ellis. By the way, Warren’s site is still in the blogroll, and for the terminally lazy, you can just click here.

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One of the modules on my Google homepage is a Howto of the Day from wikiHow. The other day I encountered the strangest thing: Spam Musubi. Of course I thought it was just some creepy thing that someone on wikiHow had come up with. After all, the recipe is, in essence, Spam sushi. eww. But a little further research proved that idea as mistaken.

It appears that Hawaii has some sort of love affair with Spam. And this post from The Tasty Island implies that Spam is pretty fond of Hawaii, too.

I’m still having trouble wrapping my mind around a tropical island being so enamoured with tinned meat. I guess having lots of fresh fruit gets old after a while and you really just need some heavily salted, processed meat.

My favorite was when I found some variants on Musubi and they said you could substitute salmon for the Spam if you wanted. I never would have thought to come up with substitutes for Spam. Isn’t it normally the case that you use some can of meat when you can’t produce anything else? Seriously, you could have a tasty snack made of rice, seaweed, and fish, which is fairly healthy and hits all of the major food groups, or you can swap out the fish for some meat made out of… honestly, I don’t know what Spam is made out of.

I must admit, ever since encountering this recipe I’ve had a desire to try it. We’ll see how that goes.

Tune in tomorrow to see if I survive my encounter with the Spam sushi.

Yield: 2 Servings

Ingredients

Instructions

Rinse fillets; pat dry. Dredge in flour, dip in beaten egq, then in bread crumbs to bread the fillets. Place in pan with a little olive oil and pan sear until lightly browned. Place fish a casserole dish or on a baking dish and top with tomato sauce and mozzarella and Parmesan.

Bake at 350° until cheese is melted and dolphin is moist.

This recipe was found at Chef2Chef.net

If anyone tries this recipe, feel free to post a comment and let us know how it was. I’d recommend against listing your email address when posting such a comment though.

Olive Garden Tiramisu Dessert

Recipe By :

Chef Terry Henderson
The Olive Garden Restaurant
7700 Bathurst St.,
Rich, Ontario

Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
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Goals for this recipe:
quantity: 5.5 gal
starting SG: 1.045 - 1.055
finishing SG: 1.010 - 1.015
ABV: 5%
bitterness: 20-30 IBU
color: 8-10 SRM

Extract Recipe:
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Actually, after looking over the recipe, this may indeed become an obsession for a while.