When Were You Born

We had New Food Night again this week (we have cut this down to two a month in case you are worried that you may have missed some of our food).  Plus -we were supposed to have this last week but I was sick - sick - sick so we postponed our meal.

Now you may be wondering what my title has to do with new food night.

Good question.

Well our theme for this week was food from the year you were born (or at least the decade you were born in.

That's my birth year.

I had this gorgeous rose that Chris had brought me for Mother's Day that I wanted to display so I used it for my centerpiece this week.

Let's start with the oldest member of our group - Miss Annette.

She brought some Spam Ham.  Just spam topped with a brown sugar glaze and pineapple.  I love Spam. I had never heard of Spam Ham but it was great. Miss Annette said she used to this that it was ham.

She also brought some fried cabbage covered with bacon and the bacon grease mixed in with it.
Yumm

Also cornbread.  This right here is a meal in itself but we still have 3 people left to go.  We ate good this week :)

Next up would be me.  I, as usual, searched more for desserts. I don't know why as I am not a big dessert person but I do love to bake them.  I found my recipe right away and printed it off and set it aside.

Didn't look at real close until the night before when I wanted to make my dessert which was Chocolate Blackout Cake.

I have made a mental note to myself to actually read the directions before settling on a recipe now.

This cake was made with all the basic ingredients and cocoa powder. Batter was yummy and I baked it in two round cake pans. Now it didn't rise like it should have but I continued on.

You were then supposed to cut the layers in half, which I did.  Next you make a pudding mixture using unsweetened cocoa squares.  While the pudding mixture cools you make up a frosting mix again using some unsweetened ccocoa squares. I used a total of 7 ounces of unsweetened cocoa squares.

Now to assemble the cake.  You put pudding mixture between three of the layers - leaving one layer for after. Frost the entire cake. Now take that fourth layer and crumble it up. You then press the cake crumbs to the side of the cake and sprinkle some on top.

See I told you it was more work than I thought it would be.

Talk about chocolate overload!!  This is it

Now Mr. Rick was also born in 1957 - but the month after me.

He brought a plate of fried Spam.  I love Spam and this was just the way we ate it when I was a kid!  Man what a meal!

But wait!  Next up is Gary who was born in 1970.

He researched school lunch menus and came up with fish sticks.

So he fried up some fish and made some tartar sauce.  I love fish sticks and tarter sauce.  And this was way better than boughten fish sticks.

He also made some buttered boiled potatoes.  I love potatoes.

And biscuits!  Man - this is a meal in itself as well - so it's like we had two meals in one.

Oh my gosh did I enjoy this meal.  I ate way to much but I loved every bite of it. Good thing I don't eat like this all the time.

Now we have already chosen a them for next time. We were given a challenge by our guest.

Oh, did I forget to mention that we had a guest?  I'm sorry. One of Miss Annette's daughters was visiting and she joined us for our meal.  We were happy to have Sherry and hope she comes back again.

How about you? Do you have a challenge you want to send our way?  Or maybe you are wanting an invite to join us?  Let me know.