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One day I sold something on Craigslist and went to this farm in Trumansburg, NY to drop off the item. The woman gave me a tour of her farm and gave me a small bag of duck eggs. It bothered me that the eggs were still warm from coming out of the ducks and that I had made small talk with the ducks whose bodies they had exited, so I decided if I was going to eat these then they needed to be as removed from the experience of eating eggs as possible. I altered a recipe for peanut butter cookies and was extremely pleased with the result. Allow me:
2/3 cup butter
2/3 cup honey
1 cup peanut butter
1 duck egg
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
7 cups why were you talking to ducks
1 teaspoon salt (more or less depending on how salty you what them to be)
Beat the honey and butter together until it’s satiny. Touchable almost (resist). The other wet ingredients may now join. Peanut butter, egg, milk, vanilla. Continue beating. Mix dry ingredients in another bowl, then slowly combine it with the wet mixture. Oil up your baking sheets and decorate them with an array of tablespoon sized dough balls. Press your fork into these balls to make crosshatch patterns and bake 12-15 minutes on 325.
Plate made by Zena Pesta. Cookies made with help of bees, ducks, and cows.
I am an ally of ice cream. I support it in all seasons and for all occasions. A few days ago I discovered Laloo’s goats milk ice cream at my local food co-op and promptly bought a pint of Black Mission Fig. I was curious about how the earthiness of goat product (their meat has that same goaty dirtiness that the milk does) would work with the earthiness of the figs and I was left with wonderful feelings. My first bite surprised me because the fig flavor is so strong that the ice cream almost seems more like something that should exist in a small, sassy dollop and not the main event. It begins on a creamy caramel note and ends in an almost savory, goaty, mushroomy funk. It brings to mind a scene- the dead and the living feeding overripe fruits to one another on a velvet picnic blanket in an autumnal graveyard. Then the dead devouring the living and fashioning the picnic spread into a crude gown. Tawdry, unlikely, and pretty goth, but in the end it was a good time and I have gained a wealth of calories while expanding my palate to undead extremes. You should try it!
Nocturnal Yum Yum
If you need more figgy things in your life, I highly recommend this black fig soap crafted by and indie soap-making company called Savor. Find it here (they run out of it periodically, but I think it will come back):
Hello. This is my first visit to Food Party as a contributor and I’ve decided to start with something very special. I am creating a series of desserts inspired by Billy Idol songs. Today’s installment is Rock the Cradle of Love, a wicked strawberry cream dessert that will leave you drunk with teenage love.
What you will need:
1 Half Pint Heavy Whipping Cream
1 Whole Bag of Frozen Strawberries
¼ Cup of Vanilla Yogurt
¼ of Confectioners Sugar
A dash of Nutmeg
½ teaspoon of imitation rum flavor
An exciting bespattering of tawny port (oops)
Some Barbie legs
- Put all of the ingredients (except for the port and the Barbie legs) in your favorite blender and watch them spin around together and become one creamy pink unit.
- Put the substance in a nice Pyrex dish. Or maybe you went to art school and you have many ceramic or glass pieces that your friends gave you. Those will work as well. Just remember that red is the best color for this dish. Refrigerate or freeze it for a few hours, depending on if you want a soft dip/pudding or an ice cream sort of thing.
- Now it’s time to decorate. Put the Barbie legs in the dessert. Try to make it look as if they are having a really good time. The 80’s was such a leg-lovin’ decade (even though this song is from 1990, for those who get stuck on technicalities). 80’s is to legs as 90’s is to boobs. Anyway, you can also put some extra berries or Oreos or whatever you want on top. Splatter it with port to reference the video (posted below) and make it look great.
