Here’s an e-mail from one of my biggest fans! I thought it was very funny so I had to put it on my blog.
Happy Holidays!!
I had Thanksgiving w/ Andrea and her brother, his fiancee and a couple others. It was lots of fun and very relaxing. Everyone was supposed to make a side, there were originally going to be 9 of us. I’d planned to dazzle folks with my classic Midwest marshmallow fluff, featuring canned fruit coctail… but at the last minute 2 people dropped out and there was already WAY too much food. I knew then that only a light Asian appetizer would suffice. In a rural town w/ only a Fred Meyer and just a few hours before they closed I rustled up chutney(most employees did not know what it was), a whole fresh coconut (which was disected on the table saw), ginger, lime, peanuts and everything else except the big store was out of shallots. A smaller, seedier store in the next town had them in a 70’s style fishnet package. They played Christian rock which seemed a few weeks early but I decided it was better and more appropriate than death metal. For me personally the success of the dish lies in finding the most enormous spinach leaves. Regardless it was a hit and it moved. People kept coming back for more, asking about it and where they might find the recipe.
Thanks Ellie May!
M