So it’s my fiance’s birthday this week, and we are having some friends over for dinner one evening and we are going to watch the Man About the House movie afterwards.
I’m thinking it would be quite cool to do a 70’s themed dinner - cheese and pineapple hedgehogs, that sort of thing.
Given that I was born in '73, I don’t really remember what the courses du jour were back then - could someone older, I mean more mature than me ;), give me some suggestions? Particularly suggestions where you can send me the recipe!
We are all pretty adventurous eaters, just would prefer something that isn’t too rich!
Fondue, of course. Those little appetisers made of Things Wrapped In Bacon and broiled. (I forget what they’re called. My brain keeps yelling “ramekin!” and I have to keep telling it no, those are little baking dishes. And yet it persiss. Stupid brain eats stupid food for breakfast.)
Awesome, thanks for the link! Fondue would be nice, but I don’t have a fondue set and don’t really want to invest in one given that I’d only use it the once!
And I see that my menu is a carbon copy of kambuckta’s. Clearly the Australian Women’s Weekly must have done a “dinner party” liftout in one of its issues.
My eyes! My eyes! You should have put a warning on that link, Why Not. It ranks up there with James Lilek’s Gallery of Regrettable Food (whose recipes predate the 70s and thus don’t fit the OP, but are good for a laugh anyway).
My favorite page from WhyNot’s link is the “Cocktail Favorites”. The “Legal” Manhattan is bad enough (soda, lime juice and bitters), but scarcely prepares us for the abomination that is the “Legal” Martini:
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[li]1 cup hot water[/li][li]1 packet instant chicken broth and seasoning mix[/li][li]1½ teaspoons lemon juice[/li][li]½ teaspoon bitters[/li][li]2 canned button mushrooms (optional)[/li][/ul]
Combine water and broth mix; stir to dissolve. Chill at least one hour. Add lemon juice and bitters. Divide evenly into 2 cocktail glasses. Garnish each serving with a button mushroom, if desired. Makes 2 servings.
I’d love to have seen James Bond’s reaction if someone had served him that (shaken, not stirred, of course).
What I remember about the seventies is that there was a lot of Black Forest gateau, cheesecake and Liebfraumilch. This was just when the British were emerging from the post-war culinary Dark Ages and beginning to get more adventurous, so things like lasagne and moussaka were on their way to becoming the staples they are today. We also had a short-lived fondue craze.
Devilled eggs - hardboiled eggs, halved lengthways; the yolk scooped out and creamed with mayo and curry powder, then placed back in the halved whites.
