I understand the Obama family prefers organic, local, and seasonal dietary choices, but in celebration of the inauguration, we are having a retro menu: roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, salad with Green Goddess dressing, German chocolate cake, and a bottle of Frivolo to wash it all down.
Since I could read cook books, I have had a strange fascination with Yorkshire pudding. I haven’t made it--just puzzled over the reason a person would bake cream puff batter in beef fat, and then eat it (???). It still doesn’t make sense, but I am going to give it a try.
Green Goddess dressing was always my favorite, but I haven’t been able to find it in stores for years, and I am pretty sure that no one makes it anymore. I have the recipe in at least two cook books, and have never made it, mostly because I found the ingredients objectionable. I don’t know why Green Goddess dressing tastes so good when it is made with such odd materials. This project required I purchase my very first tube of anchovy paste, ever.
German chocolate cake—doesn’t really need much explanation other than it is Greg’s favorite.
The Frivolo isn’t retro. Greg bought me a case for Christmas and it is reserved for only very special occasions, such as the inauguration of our best hope to save the USA.
Our recipe-writing ancestors weren’t much for paying attention to saturated fat or cholesterol, were they?
Oh, alright, I will throw a few carrots in with the roast and slice a plate of oranges for our vitamins A and C.
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