Caturday Food Art: Good and Bad

THE GOOD

Dad says mom's Potato salad is a work of art.... this is her special potato salad bowl.

It is huge.  She always makes enough to almost fill the bowl.

Yellow arrows indicate the line where the potato salad was before two

piggies ate 1/2 of it.

No matter where I am when mom starts to peel the boiled eggs I come running and meowing

and doing the boiled egg dance.....

I always get a taste of boiled eggs before she starts mixing all the other stuff in it.
I like the yolk and the egg white....
Cluck cluck

Mom doesn't have a recipe.......she has a taster...Dad

She starts out with 4 boiled eggs and about 10 new potatoes

quartered and boiled.  Both are refrigerated and very cold before she mixes.

If you mix when the taters are hot it turns into mash potato salad.

Then she mixes all of these to taste: mayo, sweet pickle relish, onions, mustard

salt and pepper then she goes stir(ring) crazy.

Once mixed she calls in the Taster Dad.  

THE BAD

Recently mom entered a recipe contest over at Teddy, One Spoiled Cat's blog.

Miss Dingleberry the cafeteria cook at Ding Dong School gave us 3 photos and asked us to pick one and then 'create' a recipe.  Here is the photo mom selected and her recipe.

Dear Ms. Dingleberry below please find my disgustingly delicious recipe and photo.  Just a wee bit of why we chose this photo:  MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM 150% dislikes tomato aspic, it used to be served lots when she was a child.  This kinda reminds her of it but a different color.  So in her mind's eye here we go!!

Mock Congealed eye of Newt aspic

2 jars of halved olives (the eyes)

1 jar of lime juice to make sure it is very bitter

2 envelopes lime jello for color

1 cup warm water about 5 ice cubes

Directions combine the lime juice, jello and warm water

stir til dissolved.  Add ice cubes to start the chill.

Place mixture in the freezer for ~20 minutes or until it starts to congeal.

Remove from freeze now stir in the halve olives.  Pour mixture into a jello mold, refrigerate for 3 or 4 hours.

You can tell it is ready when you giggle it and the olives move about like eyeballs.  Turn out onto a bed of lettuce 

serve as a disgustingly delicious side dish or a main dish with mozzarella cheese ball tarts on the plate.

hints:  the lime juice and sweet jello give it the sweet and sour taste.

Bon Appetite 

We did not win the disgustingly delicious recipe contest but we rec'd a disgustingly adorable button.

Thanks Teddy and Mom for this fun event and for the disgustingly adorable award....