Whatchoo know bout giant corn salad for lunch? #nofilter (Taken with instagram)
Romantic Movie Menus: The Notebook
Take a canoe ride then enjoy a candlelit crab boil for two
by Lauren Salkeld
The Notebook Romantic Menu:
- Crab Boil with hot sauce
- Fingerling Potato Salad
- Beer Buttered-Popcorn Ice Cream Sundae
Ingredients: A completely renovated plantation, 365 handwritten love letters, and a soundtrack of jazz standards, including “I’ll Be Seeing You”
Preparation: Grow a slightly wild beard for that tortured-lover look or don pearls, clip-on earrings, and a 1940s-style hat or headband.
Yield: A casual Southern crab boil guaranteed to bring lovers together The Menu: While there are fancier dinners and party scenes in The Notebook, our menu, a classic Southern crab boil, re-creates the candlelit meal Noah and Ali share when they reunite at the newly renovated Windsor plantation. It’s a simple but undeniably delicious meal, and perfectly suits the seaside locale where Noah and Ali fall in love. Be sure to put the hot sauce on the table, as this is one fiery romance. Then cool things down with bottles of ice-cold beer. Dessert, popcorn and ice cream sundaes, harks back to Noah and Ali’s early days—they go to the movies and eat popcorn on their first date, and later that summer, Ali playfully shoves ice cream into Noah’s face.
Romance Tips: Take a cue from Noah and plan a predinner canoe ride, dozens of white ducks optional. After dinner, go to a quiet street and grab your sweetheart for a slow dance.
I’m not even a super huge fan of any of these movies, but this is really a cute idea.
Our Menu of English Tea Time Treats
is inspired by the upstairs-downstairs period drama Downton Abbey. In the highly ritualized household of the Earl and Countess of Grantham, tea time is not just for banter: it is the most serious of affairs. Over tea, alliances are forged and the fate of the family fortune is contemplated and plotted. We can’t all have a Mrs. Patmore presiding over our kitchen, but we can afford to recreate a piece of the Downton experience with some our favorite recipes. We think even the Dowager Countess would heartily approve!
Click to get recipes for Blackberry Roly Poly, Individual Sticky Toffee Pudding Cakes, Plum Pudding with Orange-Mace Hard Sauce, Blueberry Scones, and Lemon Curd.
And today of all days, when I’ve forgotten my breakfast.
When I left my folks’ house Sunday night, my dad was busy making this soup, adapted from one served at Beans & Barley, a restaurant on Milwaukee’s East Side. I’m making it tonight!
(via Macaroni and Cheese Done 8 Ways — Skillet-Baked Mac & Cheese)
We’re having our friends Karin and Evan over tonight for some carbo loading before heading to the Whistler for drinking and dancing too close. They’re vegetarian, so this seems like the perfect time to revisit one of our favorite Mark Bittman recipes ever — BAKED MAC N CHEESE. Mr. Madillac insists on frying up bacon on the side for crumblin’, and I haven’t the heart to stop him.
And because I still have some self respect, I’ll make a big salad to go with it, maybe with the really excellent Green Goddess dressing recipe I’ve been having at lunch all week.
I LOVE COOKING. AND FRIENDS. AND FRIDAYS.
suzs:
credit to pj jannuzzi (yes. he is the brother of john jannuzzi)
yes.
It’s not like other menus, it’s a cool menu.
Here’s the recipe I used to make the aforementioned Curried Carrot-Ginger Soup I’m eating for lunch today.
I followed it to the letter, except I think I accidentally used beef stock instead of vegetable — what? shit all looks the same in the freezer — and ended up throwing in about 2 cups of leftover mashed carrot & sweet potato that was in the fridge, because hell, it’s JUST MORE CARROTS. Drizzle fo shizzle fresh lime juice when you serve it. The result is tangy and spicy and a little sweet.
