Gary usually adopts the Tea Spirit after it is over, making helpful suggestions that all start with “You know, what you should have done…”
But this year, since the Tea was delayed so I could get over Crouping my lungs up, Gary’s suggestions can be implemented.
This is why I need recipes for foods that are in disguise. All I can think of is Pigs in Blankets. And that Dirt Cake recipe where you stick Gummi bears in to ground Oreos.
This is on my mind, evidently, because last night I had a dream in which I was wandering the toy aisles at Wal-Mart and discovered a wooden duck on a handle that was wrapped in sheets of roll-out Pillsbury Dough crust. I woke up wondering how you could really implement this so it would work. How could you cook the pie crust in the shape of a duck , extract the wooden mold, yet still leave the duck-shaped hollow pie crust intact?
Or, I could wrap little sausages in croissant rolls to make pigs in blankets. I could make a souffle in a fish mold, if I had a souffle fish mold. I do have molds that look like corn cakes. For decades Mom had a cast iron cake mold that looked like a lamb.
3 responses to “Foods in Disguise”
I don’t remember where I saw it, but just yesterday I blundered upon a cake that looked just like a sleeping baby. It was kind of sweet, but mostly creepy. Who would cut the thing?
First, Becs, get out of my head! My 3 year old daughter was pretending her Fisher Price Little People were food she was cooking today. As I sat there refusing to pretend to eat 2″ tall children, I imagined a cake like that. Weird.Second, what about actual duck nuggets (Don’t laugh! If you can nugget-ize a chicken, surely you can nugget-ize a duck.) wrapped in crescent rolls and served on tooth picks? It has wood, duck, and pastry – all the elements to bring your dream to life.
I think you should go with something like Shrimp in Lobster sauce. Shellfish disguising itself as a different shellfish.Did you pick a date yet?