Check the date! Have you noticed it's BURNS NIGHT already???
BURNS NIGHT!! This means that the countdown to Saturday-Night-After-Burns-Night starts here. Yes, yes, yes - I know there might be some diehards out there toasting a haggis with a wee (grudged, "careful it's a school night") glass of whisky, but obviously the main event will be on Saturday.
Because that's when I'm off to a Burns Night.
So the countdown has started. And there is No Pressure. No Pressure at all... just because in a fit of madness I have volunteered (volunteered??) to cook.
Yes you read that right. I volunteered to cook. Not, thank god, the main event ( it was a controlled madness), I won't be roasting haggis, or bashing neeps... I will only (only?) be Doing the Pudding.
So No Pressure
I will be Doing Pudding for 14 or 15 people. Even though food for any more than three people at one time counts as Mass Catering in my book.
I will be catering for some vegetarians who do not eat gelatin (no jelly) or cheese (no cheesecake), and kids (sigh.. no alcohol or coffee or yukky fruit stuff...), and anything I make will be transported (so that's cardamom creme caramel with filo pastry rolls out of the question then..).
I will also be amongst the company of people who have done a Proper Starter and a Proper Main Course, so cheating and running off to buy shortbread is out of the question..
Like I said No Pressure.
Await further developments....
26 January 2011 at 21:40
Damn. Those pesky people putting limitations on you. I know! Make something with coffee AND alcohol and gelatin and eat it all yourself. That'll teach them!
Bring a black bun!
26 January 2011 at 21:46
I assume your Burns Night will also feature copious readings of the great man's poetry?
How about that traditional Burns Supper dish, Cranachan or Tipsy Laird (aka whisky trifle)?
26 January 2011 at 21:56
And we enjoy Burn's Night then? I ignored it and brought in popcorn for the team at work. Cultural stuff though.
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27 January 2011 at 07:11
Veg - Heh heh heh, Black Bun??? that'd teach them ...!!
Nick - Rest assured I have entire verses off by heart already (no seriously...) Unfortunately no canachan or whiskey trifle (see alcohol restrictions...)
Mme DeF - Popcorn??? Without even Irn Bru to wash it down???
Are you assimilating down there?
Sunny - WhaaaHay! Woo! An Award! Thank You!
{Rifles through her book of poetry to find a suitable acceptance verse) :)
27 January 2011 at 07:34
Just buy 15 wee sleekit pots of yoghurt. They'll be to pissed and happy to notice. Apart from the veggies who are all mad and miserable...
27 January 2011 at 08:04
The Lovely Ursus did an absolutely gorgeous receipe from Delia Smith, chocolate bread pudding. It does call for rum, but frankly, kids need to be taught to drink properly. Also, it'll have been cooked off.
Good luck my dear....and have fun!
What are you wearing?
27 January 2011 at 10:29
We'd forgotten about it this year. Think I'm gong to keep mum.
Await your pud choice with eager anticipation.
27 January 2011 at 12:01
Another night that I miss my grandparents and my mother---I still have my granfather's leather bound copy of "The Poetical Works and Letters of Robert Burns"
But pudding with no alcohol--nae lassie, tis nae right
27 January 2011 at 19:19
Have fun....a drink .... and enjoy....
and if you cook some of that cranachan (sp?)I'll drop by!
27 January 2011 at 20:13
Rog - Aye, a puddin's a puddin for a'that.. And the Veggies can a' just nurse their wrath
Roses - Nopety.. too mean to waste the rum on the under 5's... but I have had a BRAINWAVE. copious amounts of chocolate will be used.
Oh, and this is definitely a Red Dress occasion!
Pat - Shame! I'd have thought you could have got a good discount on haggis and neeps down south..
Clyde - All my older relatives had a battered edition of Burns around the house somewhere. Along with the Glasgow Cookery Book and a bible.
They didn't read aloud from either though.
And don't worry, one of the puds will have alcohol in.
Libby - Now, see if there was going to be any cranachan left over, it must be a rubbish cranachan, you can see my problem here..